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            <title>Expanding Access to Contraception: IUD Fees and Subsidies in Egypt</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[One way for developing countries to afford the costs of family planning is to reduce the number of women with high ability to pay from obtaining subsidized (public) services. Public sector resources can then be directed to women with the greatest financial need. Such targeting is an important component of contraceptive security because it has the potential to expand access to family planning to society’s poorest groups while addressing equity concerns.

Various papers have pointed out that wealthy women receive a subsidy when they use the public sector. This brief describes the first attempt, as far as we know, to calculate this subsidy.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:13:29 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Expanding Access to Contraception: How Ability to Pay Effects Use and Source of IUDs</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Greater use of long-acting and permanent methods (LAPMs) of contraception – intrauterine devices (IUD), implants, and sterilization – has the potential to increase continuation rates and reduce unintended pregnancies. In the past few years, efforts to revitalize IUD use have intensified. IUDs are highly effective and can be used for up to 10−12 years, but can also be quickly reversed with fertility returning swiftly once the device is removed.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:11:56 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Expanding Access to Contraception: The Role of the Commercial Sector in Providing Long-Acting ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Strengthening the role of the commercial sector in contraceptive provision is an important strategy for reducing costs to donors and to local governments. Attention has focused on increasing the commercial market for short-acting methods of contraception like pills and condoms; less attention has been paid to commercial sector provision of long-acting and permanent methods (LAPMs): IUDUDs, implants, and female and male sterilization. This brief, based on a Private Sector Partnerships-One technical report, The Commercial Sector’s Role in Providing Long-Acting and Permanent Methods, provides data on the use and source of LAPMs. Such data are useful in designing and evaluating interventions to increase the commercial sector’s role.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:10:24 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Ten Best Public and Private Sector Practices In Reproductive Health and Family Planning in the ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This brief, developed through a collaborative effort by JSI and PSP-One, synthesizes best practices in achieving reproductive health and family planning (RH/FP) goals for the E&E region, and highlights the role of the private sector in meeting these goals. It is designed for policymakers, service providers, FP organizations, and other stakeholders with an interest in developing better public/private collaboration in achieving RH/FP goals.The principles in this brief draw from the combined findings of five country analyses developed by JSI (JSI 2007), and a review by PSP-One of the private sector contribution to FP in the E&E region (Armand et al. 2007). Both reports also used findings from country assessments conducted by JSI and PSP-One between 2004 and 2008 (see bibliography for a list of assessments).]]></description>
            <author>suzanne@forumone.com (PSP-One)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:56:54 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Estigma y Discriminacion en los Servicios de Prueba de vih Con Orientacion en el Sector Privado ...</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/6253_guatemala.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[El presente documento reporta los resultados del estudio cualitativo realizado en 2007 y 2008 por el proyecto PSP-One en tres departamentos de Guatemala (Guatemala, Izabal y Quetzaltenango), cuyos objetivos han sido:

   1. Describir los conocimientos y prácticas de los proveedores de clínicas y laboratorios privados sobre el VIH y los servicios de prueba de VIH con orientación (PVO).
   2. Identificar las características del estigma de los proveedores privados en relación a las mujeres trabajadoras sexuales (MTS), hombres que tienen sexo con hombres (HSH), las personas viviendo con VIH/SIDA (PVVS), y con respecto al VIH.
   3. Describir las experiencias de las MTS, HSH y PVVS en los servicios privados de PVO.]]></description>
            <author>suzanne@forumone.com (PSP-One)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:05:11 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>HIV/AIDS Services Through the Workplace: A Survey in Four Sub-Saharan African Countries</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/6252_file_FINAL_HIV_AIDS_Workplace_Paper_with_PEPFAR_logo.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[For over a decade, many businesses have experienced increased costs and reduced productivity as a result of HIV/AIDS. Many companies are responding to the HIV/AIDS crisis through investment in prevention programs, especially in employee education and condom distribution. A smaller, but increasing number have supported a range of care and treatment services for employees and their families. However, not enough is known about the factors that influence the choices companies make in HIV/AIDS service provision and the range of approaches taken to increase access to services.

To address this knowledge gap, the Private Sector Partnerships-One project (PSP-One) conducted a survey of companies in Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, and Zambia in 2006-2007. PSP-One selected the sample based on a list of companies that donor agencies had previously worked with related to HIV/AIDS issues. Human resources personnel or health clinicians from 121 companies participated in the survey via an online, self-administered questionnaire, or phone interviews. The data were then analyzed using univariate and bivariate analyses. Additional qualitative data were collected through key informant interviews with company personnel from four companies in each of the study countries.]]></description>
            <author>suzanne@forumone.com (PSP-One)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:53:20 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Does an Expansion in Private Sector Contraceptive Supply Increase Inequality in Modern ...</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/6251_file_FINAL_Equity_Paper_1.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Multiple rounds of Demographic and Health Surveys data were analyzed for five countries that experienced an increase in the private sector supply of contraceptives: Morocco, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Kenya, and Ghana. Information on household assets and amenities was used to construct wealth quintiles. A concentration index, which calculates the degree of inequality in contraceptive use by wealth, was calculated for each survey round.]]></description>
            <author>suzanne@forumone.com (PSP-One)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:48:37 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Public Policy and Franchising Reproductive Health: Current Evidence and Future Directions</title>
            <link>http://psp-one.com/content/resource/detail/4512/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A joint guidance note from PSP-One and WHO on Private Sector provision of reproductive health and family planning services. The note is based a consultation meeting entitled "Public Policy and Franchising Reproductive Health: Current Evidence and Future Directions" held in Geneva Switzerland, December 2006.]]></description>
            <author>suzanne@forumone.com (PSP-One)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:06:57 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>\&quot;Saathiya\&quot; Country Research Brief</title>
            <link>http://psp-one.com/content/resource/detail/4696/</link>
            <description><![CDATA["Saathiya" Country Research Brief: Evaluating Demand-Side Impacts of a Youth-Friendly Initiative (YFI) in India: Baseline Findings]]></description>
            <author>suzanne@forumone.com (PSP-One)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:02:04 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Why Policy Matters: Regulatory Barriers to Better Primary Care in Africa – Two Private Sector ...</title>
            <link>http://psp-one.com/content/resource/detail/4555/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Abt Associates’ led, USAID funded PSP-One project has recently published a Policy Brief entitled, “Why Policy Matters: Regulatory Barriers to Better Primary Care in Africa – Two Private Sector Examples”  
The policy brief examines the recent experiences in Zambia and Ethiopia that illustrate why policy matters for developing the private health sector and explains the regulatory barriers to primary care in Africa.]]></description>
            <author>suzanne@forumone.com (PSP-One)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:32:35 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Private Sector Quality Improvement Package for Midwives and Supervisors</title>
            <link>http://psp-one.com/content/resource/detail/4484/</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Abt Associates’ led, USAID funded PSP-One project has recently created a quality improvement package for the private sector entitled, “Quality Improvement Package for Midwives and Supervisors”. The package includes a review of service statistics; accompany a QI self-assessment tool for midwives to identify quality issues, and a linked action plan for midwives and supervisors to help solve issues the QI tool identifies.]]></description>
            <author>suzanne@forumone.com (PSP-One)</author>
            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:30:13 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Checklist - Sustainable Social Marketing Self-Assessment Tool</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/5127_Sustainability_Checklist.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Social marketing organizations (SMOs) can conduct their own sustainability analysis using the Sustainability Continuum for Social Marketing. Because so many of the factors affecting sustainability are context-specific, sustainability assessments are more qualitative than quantitative. This tool facilitates the staff or stakeholders’ analysis of an SMO to measure where it fits within the sustainability continuum and to set goals for strengthening sustainability along the continuum’s dimensions. Any SMO can use the tool, regardless of where it currently fits within the continuum, and self-assessments can be conducted as often as needed. SMOs should conduct a self-assessment at least annually.]]></description>
            <author>suzanne@forumone.com (PSP-One)</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:06:31 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Summary of Sustainability Strategies for Social Marketing Programs</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This list provides a quick reference guide to the sustainability strategies discussed in detail in Moving Toward Sustainability: Transition Strategies for Social Marketing Programs. Note that these strategies will not be appropriate for every situation and will require adaptation to the market and organizational context.]]></description>
            <author>suzanne@forumone.com (PSP-One)</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:02:26 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Sustainability Continuum for Social Marketing</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/5125_Continuum.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This document provides a quick reference guide to the sustainability continuum discussed in detail in Moving Toward Sustainability: Transition Strategies for Social Marketing Programs.]]></description>
            <author>suzanne@forumone.com (PSP-One)</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:57:47 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Moving Toward Sustainability: Transition Strategies and Tools for Social Marketing Programs</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/5124_Sustainability_report.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This publication is composed of the report (including the continuum tool and five case studies) and three component documents. This paper provides donors, program developers, program managers, researchers, and others in the social marketing field with a practical approach to guide conceptual thinking and sustainable program design.]]></description>
            <author>suzanne@forumone.com (PSP-One)</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:56:15 +0100</pubDate>
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