This paper examines private sector contributions, as compared to donor and public sector investments, to HIV/AIDS financing in five sub–Saharan African countries: Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia. We use data not commonly associated with the private sector – National Health Accounts (…
Resource Type : Report
Country : Tanzania
Health Area: HIV/AIDS
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement
OBJECTIVES To measure the extent of quality differentials in family planning (FP) services at public and private hospitals and clinics in three countries (Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania) and to determine how these differentials affect FP clients' satisfaction with those services. METHODS The…
Resource Type : Report
Country : Tanzania
Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality, Public-Private Engagement
Malaria is well recognized as a threat to social and economic stability causing more than 1 million deaths each year in sub-Saharan Africa. In response, the international donor community and partner governments in Africa have provided unprecedented funding for malaria control interventions.…
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Health Area: Malaria
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement
Private Sector Partnerships-One (PSP-One) is a worldwide project that provides technical leadership to facilitate private sector provision of high-quality reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) products and services. Funded from 2004-2009 by the United States Agency for International…
Resource Type : Report
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
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Differentials in quality of health services in the private sector by clients' socioeconomic status have not been well documented. This paper examines differentials in quality of reproductive health services provided by private midwives in Uganda. Data were collected from interviews of 248…
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Health Area: Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality
Self-assessment tools have become increasingly important for quality improvement in settings where external supervision and evaluation of the quality of care may not always be feasible. The evidence has been mixed regarding the level of agreement between health care providers' self-assessment of…
Resource Type : Report
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality
HIV/AIDS is a critical challenge in India with an estimated 2.4 million people living with the disease in 2007 (UNAIDS/WHO 2008). A majority (65 percent) of people living with HIV (PLWHIV) live in five high-prevalence states: Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Manipur, and Tamil Nadu (…
Resource Type : Brief
Country : India
Health Area: HIV/AIDS
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area:
PSP-One End-of-Project Conference
Resource Type : Presentation
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area:
PSP-One End-of-Project Conference
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Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement
PSP-One End-of-Project Conference
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Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
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