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Assessing The Effects Of Training On Knowledge And Skills Of Health Personnel: A Case Study From The Family Health Project In Sindh, Pakistan, Syed Farid-Ul-Hasnain, Syed Muhammad Israr, Saleem Jessani

Community Health Sciences

Background: The Family Health Project (FHP) was implemented in the province of Sindh during 1992-99 with the assistance of the World Bank. The project was designed to bring substantial changes in health care system for achieving improvement in the health status by strengthening the quality and integration of primary health care services. One of the major components of the project was to develop the institutional capacity of Ministry of Health in Sindh. This is a comparative analysis to assess the knowledge and skills of health care providers in Area Focus Approach (AFA) health facilities with the ones in non-AFA health …

Copyright Norms And The Problem Of Private Censorship, Wendy J. Gordon

Faculty Scholarship

Copyright policy must resolve intelligently the tension between upstream and downstream creators, between incentives to create and incentives to use. Downstream at1thors who copy and transform others' images or words as an input to new creativity have. obvious free speech concerns. So do simple copiers in those many instances where even non-creative copying is essential for expressing one's ideas or allegiances.

Part of the tension is economic. Because virtually every author :needs access to predecessor texts, a legislature that increases copyright protection for ·today's creators simultaneously increases tomorrow's costs of creation ¹ or use. But the issue goes far beyond …

Field Guide To The Stemborer Larvae Of Maize, Sorghum And Sugarcane In Eastern And Southern Africa, W. A. Overholt, K. V. N. Maes, F. R. Goebel

icipe Manuals

Introduction

Lepidopteran stemborers are generally considered to be the most important group of insect pests that attack maize, sorghum and sugarcane in many areas of the world. In eastern and southern Africa, there are several important species. Correct identification of the stemborers occurring in an area is the first step towards developing an appropriate pest management strategy.

The objective of this publication is to provide agricultural scientists and extension workers with a simple, user-friendly taxonomic key to allow the rapid identification of larvae of the major stemborer species found in maize, sorghum and sugarcane in eastern and southern Africa. Fact …

Child Sexual Abuse In Sub-Saharan Africa: Child Protection Implications For Development Policy Makers And Practitioners, Kevin Lalor

Reports

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Can Foreign Aid Save Africa?, William Easterly

Clemens Lecture Series

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