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Unfair knowledge practices in global health: a realist synthesis

Abimbola S, van de Kamp J, Lariat J, Rathod L, Klipstein-Grobusch K,  et al.
2024-06-03 • Health Policy and Planning
2024-06-03 • Health Policy and Planning

Unfair knowledge practices easily beset our efforts to achieve health equity within and between countries. Enacted by people from a distance and from a position of power (‘the centre’...

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Village-based AIDS prevention in a rural district in Uganda

Schopper D, Doussantousse S, Ayiga N, Ezatirale G, Idro WJ,  et al.
1995-06-01 • Health Policy and Planning
1995-06-01 • Health Policy and Planning
OBJECTIVE: To design, implement and evaluate a village-based AIDS prevention programme in a rural district in north-western Uganda. A baseline KAP survey of the general population was ca...

Maternal health after Ebola: unmet needs and barriers to healthcare in rural Sierra Leone

Elston JWT, Danis K, Gray NSB, West H, West KP,  et al.
2019-11-07 • Health Policy and Planning
2019-11-07 • Health Policy and Planning
Sierra Leone has the world’s highest estimated maternal mortality. Following the 2014–16 Ebola outbreak, we described health outcomes and health-seeking behaviour amongst pregnant women ...

Delivering a primary-level non-communicable disease programme for Syrian refugees and the host population in Jordan: a descriptive costing study

Ansbro É, Garry S, Karir V, Reddy A, Jobanputra K,  et al.
2020-07-04 • Health Policy and Planning
2020-07-04 • Health Policy and Planning
The Syrian conflict has caused enormous displacement of a population with a high non-communicable disease (NCD) burden into surrounding countries, overwhelming health systems’ NCD care c...

Access to health care for all? User fees plus a health equity fund in Sotnikum, Cambodia

Hardeman W, Van Damme W, Van Pelt M, Por I, Kimvan H,  et al.
2004-01-01 • Health Policy and Planning
2004-01-01 • Health Policy and Planning
User fees in health services are a source of much debate because of their potential risk of negative effects on access to health care for the poor. A Health Equity Fund that identifies t...

The uncertain future of lay counsellors: continuation of HIV services in Lesotho under pressure

Bemelmans M, Goux D, Baert S, van Cutsem G, Motsamai M,  et al.
2015-11-05 • Health Policy and Planning
2015-11-05 • Health Policy and Planning
Between 2006 and 2011, when antiretroviral therapy (ART) was scaled up in a context of severe human resources shortages, transferring responsibility for elements in human immunodeficienc...

Abolishing user fees for children and pregnant women trebled uptake of malaria-related interventions in Kangaba, Mali

Ponsar F, Van Herp M, Zachariah R, Gerard S, Philips M,  et al.
2011-11-11 • Health Policy and Planning
2011-11-11 • Health Policy and Planning
Malaria is the most common cause of morbidity and mortality in children under 5 in Mali. Health centres provide primary care, including malaria treatment, under a system of cost recovery...

The role of community-based organizations in household ability to pay for health care in Kilifi District, Kenya

Molyneux C, Hutchison B, Chuma J, Gilson L
2007-11-01 • Health Policy and Planning
2007-11-01 • Health Policy and Planning
There is growing concern that health policies and programmes may be contributing to disparities in health and wealth between and within households in low-income settings. However, there ...

Cost-effectiveness analysis of humanitarian relief interventions: visceral leishmaniasis treatment in the Sudan

Griekspoor A, Sondorp H, Vos T
1999-03-01 • Health Policy and Planning
1999-03-01 • Health Policy and Planning
Spending by aid agencies on emergencies has quadrupled over the last decade, to over US$6 billion. To date, cost-effectiveness has seldom been considered in the prioritization and evalua...