In this paper, we consider the following red-blue median problem which is a generalization of the well-studied k-median problem. The input consists of a set of red facilities, a set of blue facilities, and a set of clients in a metric space and two integers kr, kb ≥ 0. The problem is to open at most kr red facilities and at most kb blue facilities and minimize the sum of distances of clients to...

BACKGROUND Since 2005, India has implemented a national cash transfer programme, the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY), which provides women a cash transfer upon giving birth in an existing public facility. This has resulted in a steep rise in facility births across the country. The early years of the programme saw efforts being made to strengthen the ability of facilities to provide obstetric care....

To survey the microbiological contamination of laboratory mice and rats in Korea during a 5-year period, we monitored animals housed in mouse and rat facilities with either barrier or conventional systems. At barrier and conventional mouse facilities, the most important pathogen identified was mouse hepatitis virus (MHV), while Mycoplasma pulmonis was the most important pathogen at conventional...

objectives: the main objective of the paper is finding solution to make selfhelp group's performance better in behzisti organization. recently empowerment theory is replaced the social policy theories. empowerment has five dimensions: income, accessibility, consciousness, control and participation. all of the dimensions are important and ought to be actualized. but based on the idea of the...

BACKGROUND Nearly 40% of women in developing countries seek contraceptives services from the private sector. However, the reasons that contraceptive clients choose private or public providers are not well studied. METHODS We conducted six focus groups discussions and 51 in-depth interviews with postpartum women (n = 61) to explore decision-making about contraceptive use after delivery, includ...

Myanmar transitioned to a civilian government in March, 2011. Although the democratic process has accelerated since then, many problems in the field of healthcare still exist. Since there is a limited overview on the healthcare in Myanmar, this article briefly describes the current states surrounding health services in Myanmar. According to the Census 2014, the population in the Republic of the...

BACKGROUND Public and private family planning providers face different incentive structures, which may affect overall quality and ultimately the acceptability of family planning for their intended clients. This analysis seeks to quantify differences in the quality of family planning (FP) services at public and private providers in three representative sub-Saharan African countries (Tanzania, Ke...

BACKGROUND South Africa has an estimated 1.5 million persons in need of antiretroviral therapy (ART). In 2004, the South African government began collaborating with the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to increase access to ART. We determined how PEPFAR treatment support changed from 2005-2009. METHODS In order to describe the change in number and type of PEPF...