Alex le May discusses how Marie Stopes has relied on task-shifting to provide essential health services to their clients in countries where there is a shortage of skilled healthcare professionals. Alex le May is a policy advisor based in London working to enhance the role of MSI in engaging…
Resource Type : Presentation
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
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Dr. Jim Shelton gives an overview of long-acting and permanent methods of family planning, including programmatic considerations and country examples in service delivery and partnerships in the private sector. Shelton serves as science advisor for the Bureau for Global Health. Download a PDF of…
Resource Type : Presentation
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
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In December 2010, the Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) project, led by Abt Associates, explored the possibility of developing a strategy to expand the hormonal contraceptive market in Russia, with a particular focus on oral contraceptives (OCs). The SHOPS project…
Resource Type : Brief
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
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El notable éxito de Paraguay para mejorar la salud de su población es evidente, según sus indicadores desalud reproductiva. En años recientes la tasa de prevalencia de uso de anticonceptivos entre las mujeres en unión, como también entre las mujeres en edad reproductiva se ha incrementado en…
Resource Type : Report
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : Spanish
Technical Area: Private Health Sector Assessments
This brief is a summary of Mobiles for Quality Improvement Pilot in Uganda, November 2011, the full report of a qualitative evaluation conducted by the SHOPS project. Pamela Riley and James Bon Tempo prepared this brief which presents the pilot’s objectives, methods, findings, and lessons…
Resource Type : Brief
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Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Digital Health, Provider Quality
This brief summarizes the findings from a report on the lack of financial literacy among the large numbers of people who have access to financing. It is estimated that 500-800 million of the world's poor now have access to finance; however, only 110-130 million of that number have had any sort…
Resource Type : Brief
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Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Health Financing
Transcript from live chat with Dr. Francis Waudo Siganga, a Senior Technical Officer from Kenya’s Gold Star Network. Dr. Siganga covers many issues related to antiretroviral treatment, including: barriers to private sector’s involvement in antiretrovirals (ARVs) provision; training of private…
Resource Type : Other
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Health Area: HIV/AIDS
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Networks and Franchising
Barbara O'Hanlon interviews Walter Ookok about his experience in the private health sector in Kenya as the Chairman of the Kenya Healthcare Federation.
Resource Type : Other
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Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Health Financing
Network for Africa member and Chairman of the Kenya Healthcare Federation Walter Ookok sits down with Barbara O'Hanlon, SHOPS private sector advisor to discuss the path travelled by the Kenya Health Federation -- from a small private sector group to a permanent member of the prime minister…
Resource Type : Video
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Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement
This private sector assessments finds that the private sector, both faith-based and commercial, is an important part of the health system in Malawi and provides critical essential health services to millions of Malawians. The assessment includes concrete recommendations to improve the…
Resource Type : Report
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Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Private Health Sector Assessments
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