PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE The evolving Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) sector in Bangladesh provides health services directly, however some NGOs indirectly provide services by working with unlicensed providers. The primary objective of this study was to examine the impact of NGO training of unlicensed providers on diarrhoea management and the scale up of zinc treatment in rural populations. METHO...

INTRODUCTION Through funding agency and publisher policies, an increasing proportion of the health sciences literature is being made open access. Such an increase in access raises questions about the awareness and potential utilization of this literature by those working in health fields. METHODS A sample of physicians (N=336) and public health non-governmental organization (NGO) staff (N=92)...

BACKGROUND In Mozambique, tuberculosis (TB) is thought to be the most common cause of death among antiretroviral therapy (ART) enrollees. Monitoring proportions of enrollees screened for TB, and incidence and determinants of TB during ART can help clinicians and program managers identify program improvement opportunities. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We conducted a retrospective cohort stud...

This project proposes a Grid system for a pre-defined virtual organisation, to facilitate the operations of a non-governmental organisation (NGO) with a specific set of initiatives, operating within a specific demographic boundary. The framework for this project is essentially an OGSAbased Grid Services architecture, comprising distributed data warehouse sources. Authentication and access contr...

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...

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...

Social capital contributes to the alleviation of poverty but evidence on how to strengthen it remains scarce. This article describes strategies to strengthen social capital developed by a nongovernmental organization (NGO) and women as part of a development programme in rural Bangladesh between 2006 and 2012. The NGO and the women involved leveraged bonding (familial), bridging (peers) and link...

The seven stages in the development and growth of the consciousness of an organisation are summarized in the following table, and described in detail in the following paragraphs. The model applies to all types of organisations—corporations, government departments, municipal agencies, institutions, non‐governmental organisations (NGO), and educational establishments. The focus of this table is o...

. . . despite all the talk and activity in this ®eld since the early 1990's, the basic argument and message of con ̄ict prevention still has not `stuck' in many critical policy quarters and levels of decision making. The quantity of policy doctrine, designated of®cials and of®ces, routinised decision procedures, public hearings, policy papers, political debates, appropriations, non-governmental ...

mologist told me that his eye department, in a rural part of his country, had recently lost its non-governmental organisation (NGO) support. As a result, he had not performed any cataract operations for several weeks, because the hospital had not ordered the necessary intra-ocular lenses (IOLs). This seemed a very unfortunate state of affairs – but also something others could learn from. We hav...