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Media briefing

Unregulated and Unaccountable: How the private health care sector in India is putting women’s lives at risk

06/02/2013

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Decades of appallingly low investment in the public health sector has left India with a crumbling health system, unable to meet the needs of its citizens. Despite efforts in recent years to strengthen the public health system, India has one of the lowest levels of government investment in health in the world, just one percent […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Cholera Outbreak Guidelines: Preparedness, prevention and control

13/08/2012

3 documents

105 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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This practical field guide brings together lessons learned from Oxfam’s past interventions in the prevention and control of cholera, and other related guidance. The aim is to provide a quick, step-by-step guide to inform cholera outbreak interventions and ensure public health programmes that are rapid, community-based, well-tailored, and gender and diversity aware. They will enable […]

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Technical briefing

Handwashing

18/05/2012

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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It is now well known that handwashing with soap has a greater impact on morbidity from diarrhoeal disease than any other single intervention. This technical briefing note looks at the relevance of handwashing in disease prevention, as well as the practicalities and promotion of handwashing in developing countries.

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Journal article

Transforming gender in homestead food production

03/11/2010

14 pages long

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Transforming gender in homestead food production

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In Bangladesh, Helen Keller International (HKI) is known for its homestead food production (HFP) programme, which promotes small-scale agriculture among women, specifically to improve women’s and children’s nutrition outcomes, including dietary diversity and knowledge of maternal self-care and infant-young child feeding practices. To achieve these aims, the programme focuses on women’s empowerment. This article presents […]

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Journal article

Diary of a participatory advocacy film project: transforming communication initiatives into living campaigns

01/11/2009

5 pages long

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In August 2007, the government of Tanzania made a commitment to doubling the number of training places for skilled midwives, following a five-year campaign by the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood in Tanzania (WRATZ), which culminated in the first television screening of a participatory film, ‘Play Your Part’. With contributions from a range of […]

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Journal article

Uniting indigenous communities in Cambodia to claim the right to maternal healthcare

01/07/2006

12 pages long

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Uniting indigenous communities in Cambodia to claim the right to maternal healthcare

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In the province of Ratanakiri in Cambodia, indigenous communities have begun to campaign for more culturally appropriate and easily accessible maternal health services. This initiative follows action-based research conducted by Health Unlimited, a British NGO working in the area. The research analysed the range of barriers and facilitating factors that define the access of indigenous […]

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Journal article

Using key informant monitoring in safe motherhood programming in Nepal

01/04/2005

14 pages long

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This article discusses the methodology and application of the Key Informant Monitoring (KIM) tool as used by the Nepal Safer Motherhood Project (NSMP). NSMP aims to achieve a sustained increase in the uptake of midwifery and essential obstetric care services by addressing, among other things, constraints on access to such services. Data collected by community-based […]

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Journal article

Approaches to reducing maternal mortality: Oxfam and the MDGs

01/03/2005

8 pages long

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Approaches to reducing maternal mortality: Oxfam and the MDGs

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The political momentum of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), coupled with a technical consensus about how to tackle maternal mortality, greatly improves the prospect of reducing women’s death and disability rates. In its campaigning and advocacy work on the MDGs, Oxfam will focus on the need to raise the national and international finance for the […]

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Journal article

Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals

01/05/2003

12 pages long

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Strategic advocacy and maternal mortality: moving targets and the millennium development goals

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The UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the latest international development strategy. At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the Millennium Declaration, signed by all UN member countries, set out a number of Millennium Development Goals. . The debates around the choice of MDGs, and the first steps of implementation, have threatened to push many […]

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Book

Gender, Development, and Marriage

01/01/2003

1 documents

105 pages long

Languages: English

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Marriage is now acknowledged as an institution of key relevance to development policy, practice, and research. The vast majority of women and men get married at least once, and in many places life outside marriage is almost impossible for either sex to contemplate. Yet marriage as experienced by men is very different from marriage for […]

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