Documents & Reports
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Using Allocative Efficiency Analysis to Inform Health Benefits Package Design for Progressing towards Universal Health Coverage : Proof-of-Concept Studies in Countries Seeking Decision Support (English)
Countries are increasingly defining health benefits packages (HBPs) as a way of progressing towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Resources for health are commonly constrained, so it is imperative to...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 168222 Document Date: November 29, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fraser-Hurt,Nicole,Hou,Xiaohui,Wilkinson,Thomas David,Duran,Denizhan,Abou Jaoude, Gerard J.,Skordis, Jolene,Chukwuma,Adanna Deborah Ugochi,Pena,Christine Lao,Tshivuila Matala,Opope Oyaka,Prestidge,Marelize,Wilson, David P.
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Opportunities for Improved HIV Prevention and Treatment through Budget Optimization in Eswatini (English)
Eswatini achieved a 44 percent decrease in new HIV infections from 2014 to 2019 through substantial scale-up of testing and treatment. However, it still has one of the highest rates of HIV incidence in...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 157788 Document Date: July 23, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Minnery, Mark,Mathabela, Nokwazi,Amoore,Zara,Mabuza, Khanya,Prestidge,Marelize,Cheikh,Nejma,Wilson, David P,Kelly, Sherrie L.
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Gender-transformative Bandebereho couples' intervention to promote male engagement in reproductive and maternal health and violence prevention in Rwanda : Findings from a randomized control trial (English)
Rigorous evidence of the effectiveness of male engagement interventions, particularly on how these interventions impact relationship power dynamics and women's decision-making, remains limited. This study...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 130909 Document Date: April 4, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Doyle,Kate,Levtov,Ruti G.,Barker,Gary,Bastian,Gautam Gustav,Bingenheimer,Jeffrey B.,Kazimbaya,Shamsi,Nzabonimpa,Anicet,Pulerwitz,Julie,Sayinzoga,Felix,Sharma,Vandana,Shattuck,Dominick
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Small area estimation of child undernutrition in Ethiopian woredas (English)
Reducing child undernutrition is a key social policy objective of the Ethiopian government.Despite substantial reduction over the last decade and a half, child undernutrition is still high; with 48 percent...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 123246 Document Date: April 14, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Pave Sohnesen,Thomas,Ambel,Alemayehu A.,Fisker,Peter Simonsen,Andrew,Colin,Khan,Qaiser Mahmood
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Kazakhstan can Achieve Ambitious HIV Targets Despite Expected Donor Withdrawal by Combining Improved Art Procurement Mechanisms with Allocative and Implementation Efficiencies (English)
Despite a non-decreasing HIV epidemic, international donors are soon expected to withdraw funding from Kazakhstan. Here the authors analyze how allocative, implementation, and technical efficiencies could...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 136143 Document Date: February 16, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Stuart,Robyn M,Shattock,Andrew J,Gray,Richard,Benedikt,Clemens Johannes,Masaki,Emiko,Kerr,Cliff.C,Wilson,David P,Bokazhanova,Aliya,Ðuric,Predrag,Petrenko,Irina,Ganina,Lolita,Kelly,Sherrie L.,Vinichenko,Tatiana,Zhang,Shufang,Hamelmann,Christoph,Manova,Manoela
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Understanding Health Workers' Job Preferences to Improve Rural Retention in Timor-Leste : Findings from a Discrete Choice Experiment (English)
Timor-Leste built its health workforce up from extremely low levels after its war of independence, with the assistance of Cuban training, but faces challenges as the first cohorts of doctors will shortly...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 136153 Document Date: November 15, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: mitz, Marc-Francois,Witter,Sophie,Lemiere,Christophe,Eozenou,Patrick Hoang-Vu,Lievens,Tomas,Zaman, Rashid U,Engelhardt,Kay,Hou,Xiaohui
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Feasible, efficient and necessary, without exception : working with sex workers interrupts HIV and STI transmission and brings treatment to many in need (English)
Experience and emerging research from Africa reaffirms unprotected sex work to be a key driver of sexual transmission in different contexts and regardless of stage or classification of HIV epidemic. Decades...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 102453 Document Date: October 21, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Richard Steen,Wheeler,Tisha,Prestidge,Marelize,Mziray,Elizabeth,Gina Dallabetta
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The fishery performance indicators : a management tool for triple bottom line outcomes (English)
Pursuit of the triple bottom line of economic, community and ecological sustainability has increased the complexity of fishery management; fisheries assessments require new types of data and analysis to...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 102488 Document Date: May 6, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Anderson,James L.,Christopher M. Anderson,Chu,Jingjie,Meredith,Jennifer Murphy,Asche,Frank,Gil Sylvia,Smith,Graham Martin,Dessy Anggraeni,ARTHUR, ROBERT,Atle Guttormsen,Jessica K. McCluney,Tim Ward,Akpalu,Wisdom,Håkan Eggert,Jimely Flores,Freeman,Matthew Charles,Daniel S. Holland,Gunnar Knapp,Kobayashi,Mimako,Sherry Larkin,Kari MacLauchlin,Kurt Schnier,Mark Soboil,Sigbjorn Tveteras,Uchida,Hirotsugu,Diego Valderrama
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An appraisal of female sex work in Nigeria - implications for designing and scaling up hiv prevention programmes (English)
The HIV epidemic in Nigeria is complex with diverse factors driving the epidemic. Accordingly, Nigeria’s National Agency for the Control of AIDS is coordinating a large-scale initiative to conduct HIV...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 102430 Document Date: August 13, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Akudo Ikpeazu,Amaka Momah-Haruna,Baba Madu Mari,Laura H. Thompson,Kayode Ogungbemi,Uduak Daniel,Hafsatu Aboki,Shajy Isac,Prestidge,Marelize,Mziray,Elizabeth,Njie,Ndella,Akala,Francisca Ayodeji,Faran Emmanuel,Willis Omondi Odek,Blanchard,James Frederick
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Assessing the elimination of user fees for delivery services in Laos (English)
A pilot eliminating user fees associated with delivery at the point of services was introduced in two districts of Laos in March 2009. Following two years of implementation, an evaluation was conducted...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 102433 Document Date: March 14, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Boudreaux,Chantelle,Chanthala,Phetdara,Lindelow,Magnus
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Input-output modeling for urban energy consumption in Beijing : dynamics and comparison (English)
Input-output analysis has been proven to be a powerful instrument for estimating embodied (direct plus indirect) energy usage through economic sectors. Using 9 economic input-output tables of years 1987...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 102461 Document Date: March 4, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lixiao Zhang,Qiuhong Hu,Zhang,Fan
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Epidemic impacts of a community empowerment intervention for HIV prevention among female sex workers in generalized and concentrated epidemics (English)
Sex workers have endured a high burden of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in and across HIV epidemics. A comprehensive, community empowerment-based HIV prevention intervention emphasizes sex...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 102447 Document Date: February 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wirtz, Andrea L.,Pretorius, Carel,Beyrer,Chris,Baral,Stefan David,Decker, Michele R.,Sherman, Susan G.,Sweat, Michael,Poteat, Tonia,Butler, Jennifer,Oelrichs,Robert,Semini,Iris,Kerrigan, Deanna
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The economic burden of cancers on Indian households (English)
The authors assessed the burden of cancer on households’ out-of-pocket health spending, non-medical consumption, workforce participation, and debt and asset sales using data from a nationally representative...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 102485 Document Date: August 12, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Mahal,Ajay S.,Anup Karan,Victoria Y. Fan,Engelgau,Michael Maurice
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A general business model for marine reserves (English)
Marine reserves are an effective tool for protecting biodiversity locally, with potential economic benefits including enhancement of local fisheries, increased tourism, and maintenance of ecosystem services...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 102417 Document Date: April 3, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sala, Enric,Costello, Christopher,Dougherty, Dawn,Heal,Geoffrey,Kelleher,Kieran,Murray, Jason H.,Rosenberg, Andrew A.,Sumaila,Rashid Ussif
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Economic impact of HIV and antiretroviral therapy on education supply in high prevalence regions (English)
The authors set out to estimate, for the three geographical regions with the highest human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence, (sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the Caribbean, and the Greater Mekong sub-region...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 102445 Document Date: November 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Risley, Claire L.,Drake, Lesley J.,Bundy,Donald A. P.
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Evolving strategies, opportunistic implementation : HIV risk reduction in Tanzania in the context of an incentive-based HIV prevention intervention (English)
Behavior change communication (BCC) interventions, while still a necessary component of HIV prevention, have not on their own been shown to be sufficient to stem the tide of the epidemic. The shortcomings...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 102451 Document Date: August 27, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Packel,Laura Jane,Ann Keller,William H. Dow,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.,Nathan,Rose,Sally Mtenga