This paper examines the use of financing by the USAID-funded Summa Foundation, to motivate a forprofit provider, AAR Health Services in Kenya, to deliver family planning services and to enter a lower income market. This paper will examine the impact of financing on addressing impediments to the…
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Private sector primary providers have become an important source of good quality postabortion care (PAC) services in Kenya. PRIME I and II worked in partnership with the National Nursing Association of Kenya (NNAK) and the Nursing Council of Kenya (NCK) to train and equip an estimated 200…
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The workplace is now recognized as an important setting for health promotion in industrialized countries, and interest is growing in the wider role that business can play as a partner in health development. Private sector business plays a dominant role as the driver of current global economic…
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The Millennium Development Goals depend critically on scaling up public health investments in developing countries. As a matter of urgency, developing-country governments must present detailed investment plans that are sufficiently ambitious to meet the goals, and the plans must be inserted into…
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In Albania, the PHRplus Project developed and tested a series of tools designed to introduce family medicine concepts and strengthen primary health care (PHC) services. Toolkits were developed and tested in four pilot PHC centers in one region, and are now ready to be used in additional PHC…
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Sample Tools from the Network Research Navigator
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The Network Research Navigator (NRN) is a research tool for the reproductive health community who are interested in the topic of networks. It is intended to help one navigate the literature on networks and easily retrieve articles, case studies, assessment tools and summaries as needed. The…
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The Role of Private Provider Networks in Expanding the Supply of RH/FP Services - Presentation for June 4th, 2005, Networks Exchange Meeting
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Dr. Jim Foreit is a Senior Associate at the Population Council and has coauthored a manual on a Willingness to Pay instrument that is widely used in reproductive health settings. This presentation for the Willingness to Pay Panel provided an overview on the efficiency and effectiveness of…
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Dr. Steve Chapman is the Director of Research at Population Services International. This presentation was given at the Willingness to Pay Panel. In it Chapman performs a segmentation analysis that demonstrates circumstances in South Africa where prices increase without compromising access to…
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