Documentos e informes
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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 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 168222 Fecha del documento: 29 de noviembre de 2021 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 157788 Fecha del documento: 23 de julio de 2020 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Minnery, Mark,Mathabela, Nokwazi,Amoore,Zara,Mabuza, Khanya,Prestidge,Marelize,Cheikh,Nejma,Wilson, David P,Kelly, Sherrie L.
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Variations in the Quality of Tuberculosis Care in Urban India : A Cross-Sectional, Standardized Patient Study in Two Cities (Inglés)
India has the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB). Although most patients with TB in India seek care from the private sector, there is limited evidence on quality of TB care or its correlates. Following...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 136155 Fecha del documento: 25 de septiembre de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kwan,Ada Ting Ting,Daniels,Benjamin B.,Saria,Vaibhav,Satyanarayana,Srinath,Subbaraman,Ramnath,Mcdowell,Andrew Thomas,Bergkvist,Sofi,Das,Ranendra K.,Das,Veena,Das,Jishnu,Pai,Madhukar
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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 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 130909 Fecha del documento: 4 de abril de 2018 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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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Tuberculosis detection and the challenges of integrated care in rural China : a cross-sectional standardized patient study (Inglés)
Despite recent reductions in prevalence, China still faces a substantial tuberculosis (TB) burden, with future progress dependent on the ability of rural providers to appropriately detect and refer TB...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 125362 Fecha del documento: 17 de octubre de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Sylvia,Sean Yuji,Xue,Hao,Zhou,Chengchao,Shi,Yaojiang,Yi,Hongmei,Zhou,Huan,Rozelle,Scott Douglas,Pai,Madhukar,Das,Jishnu
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Small area estimation of child undernutrition in Ethiopian woredas (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 123246 Fecha del documento: 14 de abril de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 136143 Fecha del documento: 16 de febrero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 136153 Fecha del documento: 15 de noviembre de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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 (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 102453 Fecha del documento: 21 de octubre de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Richard Steen,Wheeler,Tisha,Prestidge,Marelize,Mziray,Elizabeth,Gina Dallabetta
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HIV programs for sex workers : lessons and challenges for developing and delivering programs (Inglés)
There is evidence that HIV prevention programs for sex workers, especially female sex workers, are cost-effective in several contexts, including many western countries, Thailand, India, the Democratic...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 102456 Fecha del documento: 16 de junio de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: David Wilson
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40 years of the APOC partnership (Inglés)
The fight against onchocerciasis (river blindness), one of the most devastating neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), has mobilized significant resources and brought together diverse public and private stakeholders...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 102416 Fecha del documento: 14 de mayo de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Roungou, Jean-Baptist,Yameogo, Laurent,Mwikisa, Chris,Boakye,Daniel Kwabena,Bundy,Donald A. P.
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The fishery performance indicators : a management tool for triple bottom line outcomes (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 102488 Fecha del documento: 6 de mayo de 2015 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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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Monitoring progress towards universal health coverage at country and global levels (Inglés)
Universal health coverage (UHC) has been defined as the desired outcome of health systemperformance whereby all people who need health services (promotion, prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliation)...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 104036 Fecha del documento: 1 de septiembre de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: BOERMA, TIES,Eozenou,Patrick Hoang-Vu,Evans,David,Evans,Tim,Kieny,Marie-Paule,Wagstaff, Adam
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The effect of India’s total sanitation campaign on defecation behaviors and child health in rural Madhya Pradesh : a cluster randomized controlled trial (Inglés)
Poor sanitation is thought to be a major cause of enteric infections among young children. However, there are no previously published randomized trials to measure the health impacts of large-scale sanitation...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 102486 Fecha del documento: 26 de agosto de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Sumeet R. Patil,Arnold,Benjamin Ford,Salvatore,Alicia Link,Briceno,Bertha,Sandipan Ganguly,Colford Jr.,John M.,Gertler,Paul J.
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An appraisal of female sex work in Nigeria - implications for designing and scaling up hiv prevention programmes (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 102430 Fecha del documento: 13 de agosto de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: 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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Micronutrient supplementation and deworming in children with geohelminth infections (Inglés)
Soil-transmitted helminth (also known as ‘‘geohelminth’’) infections are among the most common chronic infections worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that almost 900 million children...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 102469 Fecha del documento: 7 de agosto de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Selvi Rajagopal,Peter J. Hotez,Bundy,Donald A. P.
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HIV among people who inject drugs in the Middle East and North Africa : systematic review and data synthesis (Inglés)
It is perceived that little is known about the epidemiology of HIV infection among people who inject drugs (PWID) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The primary objective of this study was to...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 102454 Fecha del documento: 17 de junio de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Ghina R. Mumtaz,Helen A. Weiss,Sara L. Thomas,Suzanne Riome,Hamidreza Setayesh,Gabriele Riedner,Semini,Iris,Oussama Tawil,Akala,Francisca Ayodeji,David Wilson,Laith J. Abu-Raddad
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African programme for onchocerciasis control 1995–2015 : updated health impact estimates based on new disability weights (Inglés)
Since 1995, the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) has coordinated mass treatment with ivermectin in sixteen sub-Saharan countries with the aim to control morbidity due to infection with...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 102429 Fecha del documento: 5 de junio de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Luc E. Coffeng,Wilma A. Stolk,Honorat G. M. Zoure,J. Lennert Veerman,Koffi B. Agblewonu,Michele E. Murdoch,Mounkaila Noma,Grace Fobi,Jan Hendrik Richardus,Bundy,Donald A. P.,Dik Habbema,Sake J. de Vlas,Uche V. Amazigo
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Assessing the elimination of user fees for delivery services in Laos (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 102433 Fecha del documento: 14 de marzo de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Boudreaux,Chantelle,Chanthala,Phetdara,Lindelow,Magnus
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Input-output modeling for urban energy consumption in Beijing : dynamics and comparison (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 102461 Fecha del documento: 4 de marzo de 2014 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Lixiao Zhang,Qiuhong Hu,Zhang,Fan