Governments in developing countries are challenged to meet the health needs of their populations because of financial constraints, limited human resources, and weak health infrastructure. And while universal access to reproductive health care—including family planning, maternal health care, and…
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Health Area: Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement
Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries struggle to keep pace with the mounting health challenges caused by epidemics and population pressures. Government health budgets, even when augmented by decades of foreign assistance, have not produced optimal spending on patients. With the escalating demands…
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Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement
Strong supply chains are essential to effective health care delivery in all sectors – public, faithbased, employer-provided and private. In OECD countries, supply chains rely heavily on the private sector for supply, distribution and provision of key auxiliary services even when the health…
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Technical Area: Provider Access to Finance, Public-Private Engagement
Training of health care providers is one of the most common interventions used in development strategies to improve the quality of reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) services in developing countries. Decades of experience have produced an abundance of information, guidelines, and…
Resource Type : Other
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Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
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Abt Associates brings a wealth of practical experience and proven innovative models to strengthen the delivery of health services in both the public and private sectors to improve people's health. Our work in service delivery implementation focuses on applying evidence-based practices, improving…
Resource Type : Brochure/Postcard
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Health Area: Family Planning, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Provider Quality, Public-Private Engagement
Prepared by Catherine Richey and Ruwaida Salem, this issue of Population Reports offers an overview of the core factors contributing to the success of family planning programs. Family planning professionals around the world helped to identify these 10 crucial program elements. The report…
Resource Type : Report
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Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement
One way for developing countries to afford the costs of family planning is to reduce the number of women with high ability to pay from obtaining subsidized (public) services. Public sector resources can then be directed to women with the greatest financial need. Such targeting is an important…
Resource Type : Brief
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Greater use of long-acting and permanent methods (LAPMs) of contraception – intrauterine devices (IUD), implants, and sterilization – has the potential to increase continuation rates and reduce unintended pregnancies. In the past few years, efforts to revitalize IUD use have intensified. IUDs…
Resource Type : Brief
Country : Global
Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
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Strengthening the role of the commercial sector in contraceptive provision is an important strategy for reducing costs to donors and to local governments. Attention has focused on increasing the commercial market for short-acting methods of contraception like pills and condoms; less attention…
Resource Type : Brief
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
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This brief, developed through a collaborative effort by JSI and PSP-One, synthesizes best practices in achieving reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) goals for the E&E region, and highlights the role of the private sector in meeting these goals. It is designed for policymakers,…
Resource Type : Brief
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Health Area: Family Planning, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement
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