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HIV response using budgeting for results in HIV/AIDS programs : lessons from Peru

Medici, Andre; Vargas, Veronica; Lavadenz, Fernando; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Peru reduced its HIV/AIDS burden by 43 percent from 2000 to 2010 due to the introduction of free antiretroviral drug therapy in 2004, and the successful execution of the 2007-2011 HIV/AIDS Strategy and budgeting for results since 2011. The national HIV program received significant external...

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India: Maternal and Reproductive Health at a Glance

El-Saharty, Sameh; Ohno, Naoko; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

India is the third largest economy and has the second largest population in the world. It achieved millennium development goal (MDG) on poverty reduction; however, gender inequality still persists. Maternal mortality rate is 190 deaths per 100,000 live births, representing a 65 percent decline...

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Sri Lanka: Maternal and Reproductive Health at a Glance

El-Saharty, Sameh; Ohno, Naoko; Sarker, Intissar; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Sri Lanka is an island nation with a population of 20 million. In 2012, per capita income was US $2,923. From 2003 to 2012, the economy grew at 6.4 percent annually. Post-conflict, growth increased to 8 percent in May 2009. The private sector drove growth together with public reconstruction in...

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Advancing Cervical Cancer Prevention in India

Krishnan, S.; Madsen, E.; Porterfield, D.; Varghese, B.; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015

cervical cancer prevention and examined the implementation experiences of cervical cancer screening programs in India. A …

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Promoting Quality of Cervical Cancer Screening and Treatment in India

Krishnan, S; Madsen, E; Porterfield, D; Varghese, B - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015

Cervical cancer screening is highly cost effective, feasible, and culturally acceptable in higher and lower income … settings across the world. According to the World Health Organization and the World Economic Forum, screening for cervical … incidence and mortality, screening programs must be of high quality. Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among …

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Socioeconomic Differences in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: Sexually Transmitted Infections

Yarger, Jennifer; Decker, Mara; Brindis, Claire; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015

Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) is one of five areas of focus of the World Bank's Reproductive Health Action Plan 2010 - 2015 (RHAP), which recognizes the importance of addressing ASRH as a development issue with important implications for poverty reduction. A couple key...

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Achieving MDGs 4&5: Bolivia's Progress on Maternal and Child Health

Cortez, Rafael; Lavadenz, Fernando; Saadat, Seemeen; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

Bolivia is a lower-middle income country, but one of the poorest in South America, with a per capita GNI of US$ 5,750 in 2013 and an average GNI growth rate of 4.4 percent during the last ten years. Nearly 36 percent of its population of 10.6 million (2013) are aged 0 to 14 years and one third...

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