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            <title>Workforce Planning for the Health Sector: Technical Brief 6</title>
            <link>http://www.capacityproject.org/images/stories/files/techbrief_6_final.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the current recommendations for tackling
the health sector staffing crisis faced by many
countries is that they should have comprehensive
and coherent human resources for health (HRH)
strategic plans. Such plans normally include
strategies for strengthening performance of staff,
improving staff retention and adapting to any
major structural changes that may be occurring
(for example, decentralization).]]></description>
            <author>cmahoney@intrahealth.org (IntraHealth International)</author>
            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:18:03 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Task Shifting for a Strategic Skill Mix</title>
            <link>http://www.capacityproject.org/images/stories/files/techbrief_5_final.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In countries with critical shortages of physicians
and nurses, the skill mix and distribution of
available health care workers are often out of
sync with national health care needs (WHO,
2006). Task shifting is increasingly considered
a promising intervention for strengthening
national health coverage by improving the
strategic skill mix in the country’s health care
system. In this technical brief, task shifting refers
to two processes: 1) shifting tasks from one
cadre of health care worker to an existing,
lower-level cadre and 2) shifting tasks to a new
cadre developed to meet specific health care
goals. Based on a review of the literature and
country examples, the brief describes why task
shifting is important and highlights some key
steps in planning for, developing and supporting
cadres involved in task shifting.]]></description>
            <author>cmahoney@intrahealth.org (IntraHealth International)</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:26:16 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Using Collaborative Approaches to Reach Human Resources for Health (HRH) Goals</title>
            <link>http://www.capacityproject.org/images/stories/files/techbrief_4_final.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The purpose of this technical brief is to offer best
practices and lessons learned from a combination
of key themes in current literature and practice
regarding the benefits of collaborative ventures.
The brief suggests some plausible answers to
the following questions:
1. What are the benefits of participating in
a collaborative venture?
2. What are the challenges and common
pitfalls that can occur?
3. What does it take to collaborate productively
and to sustain the collaboration?]]></description>
            <author>cmahoney@intrahealth.org (IntraHealth International)</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Building Stronger Human Resources for Health through Licensure, Certification and Accreditation</title>
            <link>http://www.capacityproject.org/images/stories/files/technical_brief_no3_credentialing.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Credentialing of health care providers, facilities and
educational institutions is an integral component
in building and sustaining robust human resources
for health (HRH) systems. The credentialing
mechanisms—licensure/registration, certification
and accreditation—are among the most frequently
used quality assurance tools in health care and
serve as valuable instruments in the broader
function of health care regulation. This technical
brief examines the characteristics and potential
advantages of these mechanisms and common
challenges faced in implementing them in lowresource
settings.]]></description>
            <author>cmahoney@intrahealth.org (IntraHealth International)</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:23:23 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Human Resources Management in the Health Sector</title>
            <link>http://www.capacityproject.org/images/stories/files/techbrief_2final.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Over the last two decades, health sector reform in many countries has been characterized by spirited efforts to bring down costs and reduce gaps in coverage. Various approaches to decentralization and public-private partnerships have been introduced, but there has been hardly any attempt to understand or address the human resources (HR) aspects and implications of such structural  changes.This technical brief synthesizes findings from recent publications to help promote general understanding among the various HRM actors, especially advocates and  practitioners in developing countries.]]></description>
            <author>cmahoney@intrahealth.org (IntraHealth International)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:30:14 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Retention of Health Care Workers in Low-Resource Settings: Challenges and Responses</title>
            <link>http://www.capacityproject.org/images/stories/files/technical_brief_no1_retention.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The number of health workers employed is an
indicator of a country’s ability to meet the health
care needs of its people, especially the poorest
and most vulnerable. Resource-constrained countries
committed to the Millennium Development
Goals are facing up to the reality that shortages
and uneven distribution of health workers threaten
their capacity to tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic,
as well as the resurgence of tuberculosis and
malaria. Worker shortages are linked to three factors:
1) decreasing student enrollment in health
training institutions, 2) delays or freezes in the
hiring of qualified professionals and 3) high
turnover among those already employed.]]></description>
            <author>cmahoney@intrahealth.org (IntraHealth International)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:31:04 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Planning and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS Services:</title>
            <link>http://www.intrahealth.org/images/stories/pubs/fppmtct_integration_toolkit.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Through the PRIME II Project, IntraHealth International, with support from USAID, has
developed a methodology for strengthening the integration of FP in PMTCT sites. This
analysis methodology strives to identify opportunities within PMTCT programs through
which FP services, especially FP counseling, could be offered to women who may need
to delay, space or stop future pregnancies. The methodology consists of a toolkit with six
tools and was field tested in Rwanda and Ethiopia. The primary intended users are
facility managers, directors and stakeholders who may seek to examine a facility’s
potential to integrate FP in ongoing services.]]></description>
            <author>cmahoney@intrahealth.org (IntraHealth International)</author>
            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:52:11 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Perceived stigmatization and discrimination by health care providers toward persons with HIV/AIDS</title>
            <link>http://www.phishare.org/files/3267_Ethiopia_Perceived_Stigma.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The primary aims of this study were to consider perceived types and causes of
stigmatization, and develop recommendations for intervention and advocacy activities that address HIV/AIDS stigmatization and discrimination in health care
settings.]]></description>
            <author>cmahoney@intrahealth.org (IntraHealth International)</author>
            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:36:15 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Senegal: A Community Model for Postabortion Care Services</title>
            <link>http://www.prime2.org/prime2/pdf/PP_RR_35_300.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In Sokone district, Senegal, PRIME II has implemented a model to expand postabortion care (PAC) services beyond
facilities providing manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) to the community level where many women and adolescent girls live and work. The model relies on high-quality family planning (FP) services to help prevent unintended pregnancies and repeat abortion. This care meshes with fully functional
referral and counter-referral systems among rural health huts and health posts and the district health center where women needing treatment for complications from unsafe or incomplete abortion can receive MVA.]]></description>
            <author>cmahoney@intrahealth.org (IntraHealth International)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:50:32 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Rwanda: Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV</title>
            <link>http://www.prime2.org/prime2/pdf/PP_RW_4_hi_res.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Building a foundation for improved prenatal, obstetric and postpartum care, better outcomes for seropositive women and their children and open dialogue about HIV/AIDS, the PRIME II Project's assistance to Rwanda's Ministry of Health focuses on participation in a national program for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV.]]></description>
            <author>cmahoney@intrahealth.org (IntraHealth International)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:48:15 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Rwanda: National Reproductive Health Policy and Training</title>
            <link>http://www.prime2.org/prime2/pdf/PP_RW_2_hi_res.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[To provide a clear and unified framework for establishing and
sustaining quality family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) services in Rwanda, the PRIME II Project collaboratedwith the Ministry of Health (MOH), the government, and other
donors and agencies to draft a national reproductive health policy. After refinement by a working group of PRIME, UNFPA and Direction des Soins de Santé (DSS), the policy was signed by the minister of health on July 22, 2003. The policy includes six
priority components:
• Maternal and child health
• Family planning
• Prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections
• Adolescent reproductive health
• Prevention and treatment of sexual violence
• Increasing women's decision-making authority in FP/RH.]]></description>
            <author>cmahoney@intrahealth.org (IntraHealth International)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:46:32 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Rwanda: Mutuelles Unify the Population</title>
            <link>http://www.prime2.org/prime2/pdf/PP_RW_3_hi_res.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Even when family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) services are readily available, poverty and related lack of financial resources have resulted in low usage of services in Rwanda. In 1999, the Rwandan government began to encourage the creation of community-managed mutual health organizations, or mutuelles, to make primary health care more accessible to underserved residents and promote community involvement in service delivery.]]></description>
            <author>cmahoney@intrahealth.org (IntraHealth International)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:43:50 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Rwanda: Community-Provider Partnerships</title>
            <link>http://www.prime2.org/prime2/pdf/PP_RW_5_hi_res.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[As part of the Performance Improvement (PI) approach, the PRIME II Project integrates consumer perspectives into activities designed to improve primary-level family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) care. PRIME and its partners began introducing this concept to Rwandan counterparts in
May 2002 and adapted a strategy for Rwanda, Partenariat pour l'amélioration de la qualité (PAQ), that complements PRIME's assistance to the Ministry of Health (MOH), especially in supporting community-based mutual health organizations
(mutuelles) and scaling-up prevention of mother-to-child transmission PMTCT) of HIV services.]]></description>
            <author>cmahoney@intrahealth.org (IntraHealth International)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:41:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Rwanda: A Stronger Role for Primary Providers and Communities</title>
            <link>http://www.prime2.org/prime2/pdf/PP_RW_1_hi_res.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[From the Project office in Kigali, PRIME II has assisted Rwanda's
Ministry of Health (MOH) since 2000. The overarching goal of this work is to build the capacity of primary providers so they can respond to the country's tremendous need for high quality, decentralized family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) services.]]></description>
            <author>cmahoney@intrahealth.org (IntraHealth International)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:37:37 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Rwanda, Ethiopia: Scaling-Up Services to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV</title>
            <link>http://www.prime2.org/prime2/pdf/PP_RR_27_300.pdf</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Prevention of mother-to-child  transmission (PMTCT) of HIV services at the Byumba and Kibuye district hospitals in Rwanda, launched with assistance from PRIME II in March 2002, have been successfully sustained, with increasing percentages of women and their partners agreeing to
receive HIV testing. Scale-up to a third facility, Kigoma Health Center, beginning in December 2002, has produced similar achievements. Building on results and lessons learned
from this work, PRIME is taking a leadership role in the new presidential initiative PMTCT program in Ethiopia and developing approaches other projects can use to integrate
family planning into PMTCT services.]]></description>
            <author>cmahoney@intrahealth.org (IntraHealth International)</author>
            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:34:31 +0100</pubDate>
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