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Working with Private Providers to Improve the Delivery of Priority Services
Developing a strategic mix of private and public provision of health services in order to achieve health reform objectives can be complex. Policymakers may wonder about what private providers could contribute to public health goals. The decision to collaborate with the private sector depends on…
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Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Health Financing, Public-Private Engagement
Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Related to Malaria and Insecticide - Treated Nets in Uganda
This baseline survey, conducted between December 1999 and January 2000 by the Commercial Market Strategies Project, was designed to investigate the level of knowledge, attitudes, and practices about malaria and insecticide treated nets (ITNs) in four districts of Uganda: Mukono, Jinja, Mbarara,…
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Health Area: Malaria
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Pharmaceutical Partnerships and Social Marketing
Targeting: A Key Element of National Contraceptive Security Planning
Global demand for family planning services continues to increase rapidly. By 2015, the number of women using modern contraceptives is expected to nearly double (Ross and Bulatao, 2001). This dramatic growth is due in part to an increase in the number of women of reproductive age. It also stems…
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Corporate Engagement
Using Behavior Change Communications To Overcome Social Marketing Sales Plateaus: Case Studies of Nigeria and India
In an effort to improve social marketing programming knowledge about the extent to which behavior change interventions can bolster social marketing sales, this report presents case studies of two social marketing programs: the Society for Family Health's condom program in Nigeria and the…
Resource Type : Other
Country : India, Nigeria
Health Area: Family Planning, HIV/AIDS, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Social and Behavior Change Communication
Policy Aspects of Achieving Contraceptive Security
A key condition of contraceptive security is a policy environment that enables forecasting, financing, procuring, and delivering contraceptives in a fair and equitable way to all women and men who need them. Contraceptive security exists in a country when all women and men who need and want…
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Health Financing
Patterns and Determinants of Commercial Sector Use Among Adolescent Condom Users in Jamaica and Urban Cameroon.
This study provides a quantitative analysis of the factors that promote and deter commercial-sector condom source choice among adolescents in Jamaica and urban Cameroon to better inform efforts to strengthen commercial reproductive health services for youth. Using data from recent adolescent…
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Health Area: Family Planning, HIV/AIDS, Sexual and Reproductive Health
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement
Creating Conditions for Greater Private Sector Participation in FP/RH: Benefits for Contraceptive Security
Private sector involvement is crucial not only in helping respond to growing market demand but also in expanding consumer choices and ensuring equity in the contraceptive market. Evidence from many countries shows that the nonpoor benefit disproportionately from free and subsidized public sector…
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Health Financing
Factors Influencing the Growth of the Commercial Sector in Family Planning Service Provision
The need to meet the family planning needs of men and women, coupled with dwindling donor resources, is forcing family planning programs worldwide to confront increasingly difficult financial challenges. One option for expanding the resource base for family planning and reproductive health…
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Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
Technical Area: Public-Private Engagement
The Influence of Maternal and Child Health Service Utilization and Access to Private-Sector Family Planning Services on Subsequent Contraceptive Use: A Multi-country Study
Does utilization of modern MCH services influence the likelihood of subsequent contraceptive use among women in developing country settings? Does access to private-sector family planning services have an impact on contraceptive use? The answers to these questions have important implications for…
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Country : Guatemala, Indonesia, Morocco, Tanzania
Health Area: Family Planning
Project: SHOPS
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Language : English
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How Much is Enough? Estimating Requirements for Subsidized Contraceptives: Results from Ten-Country Analysis
This study challenges the widely cited estimate by Dr. John Ross et al (1997). Ross estimates that by 2015 there will be a $210 million dollar annual shortfall in donor funding for contraceptives - assuming the commercial sector's market share remains constant. Dr. Sine presented a new set of…
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Project: SHOPS
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Technical Area: Pharmaceutical Partnerships and Social Marketing
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What is the Market Development Approach?
- What is the Market Development Approach (MDA) Process for Family Planning, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health? Brief #1 of 4 in a series on the MDA
- What is the Market System Framework and Its Role in Developing Family Planning, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Markets? Brief #2 of 4 in a series on the MDA
- What are Key Terms Used in a Market Development Approach for Health? Brief #3 of 4 in a series on the MDA
- The Meaning and Importance of Stewardship in Developing Family Planning, and Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Markets. Brief #4 of 4 in a series on the MDA
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