INTRODUCTION Evidence exists that community-based intervention packages can have substantial child and newborn mortality impact, and may help more countries meet Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) targets. A non-governmental organization (NGO) project using such programming in Mozambique documented an annual decline in under-five mortality rate (U5MR) of 9.3% in a province in which Demograph...

From the perspective of the continuing relevance of studying the efforts directed towards rebuilding a resilient community in the former Yugoslavia, and more specifically, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the experiences of a local non-governmental and non-profit organization are both valuable and relevant. Eleven years after the violence was ended by international intervention, the region still suffers...

INTRODUCTION Most HIV infections in Africa are acquired by married/cohabiting adults and WHO recommends couple's voluntary HIV counseling and testing (CVCT) for prevention. The handover from NGO-sponsored weekend CVCT to government-sponsored services in routine weekday antenatal care (ANC) and individual voluntary testing and counseling (VCT) services in Zambia's two largest cities from 2009-20...

this research aimed to investigate the learning organization characteristics in environmental non-governmental organizations (engos) in tehran city using the watkins and marsick’s seven dimensional learning organization model. the research method was descriptive- correlation and used survey method. the population consisted of all active members on engos in tehran city.  using bartlett’s (2011) ...

BACKGROUND Emerging antibiotic resistance amongst clinically significant bacteria is a public health issue of increasing significance worldwide, but it is relatively uncharacterized in Cambodia. In this study we performed standard bacterial cultures on samples from wounds at a Non-Governmental-Organization (NGO) Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Testing was performed to elucidate pathogenic bac...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the current work distribution of health professionals from a public Ugandan medical school in a period of major donor funding for HIV programmes. We explore the hypothesis that programmes initiated under unprecedented health investments from the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief have possibly facilitated the drain of healthcare wo...

Objective Driven by the need to bring malaria surveillance data from different sources together to support evidence-based decision making, we are conducting the “Scalable Data Integration for Disease Surveillance” (SDIDS) project. This project aims to foster the integration of existing surveillance data to support evidence-based decision-making in malaria control and demonstrate a model applica...

Social scientists have fiercely debated the relationship between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the state in NGO-led development projects. However, this research often carries an implicit, and often explicit, anti-state bias, suggesting that when NGOs collaborate with states, they cease to be a progressive force. This literature thus fails to recognize the state as a complex, heterog...

(Multi-country evaluation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness) 1.Child health services-economics 2..Delivery of health care, Integrated-economics 3.Costs and cost analysis-methods 3.Costs and cost analysis-standards 4.Cross-cultural comparison I.Adam, Taghreed. email: [email protected]). Requests for permission to reproduce or translate WHO publications – whether for sale or for ...