A “learning-by-doing” approach, using tools and techniques that are inclusive, participatory, and flexible, can help engagement and learning in different contexts to improve the delivery of health services.
This DC Health Systems Board event will bring together researchers and practitioners to share their experiences of engaging and working alongside service providers, beneficiaries, officials, and other local stakeholders through implementation research, and to discuss tools that can support such processes.
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A recent article on AllAfrica.com interviewed an FHS researcher in Nigeria, Dr Oladimeji Oladepo, about how the Nigerian health system has responded to the challenges of malaria. Despite the fact that ACTs (or artemisinin combined therapy) are much more effective in fighting the straines of malaria most prevalent in Nigeria, Dr Oladepo notes that sales of chloroquine remain more common -- especially among patent medicine vendors.
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From 7-9 November 2011, the M4P Hub hosted a conference in Brighton, UK, on making markets work for poor people. It was a key opportunity to discuss and promote the M4P approach, which effectively maps the public, private and non-governmental systems that comprise a sector within a country.
Dr Gerry Bloom from FHS participated in the conference focusing on health markets in developing countries. His presentation gave an overview of work from FHS partners in Bangladesh and Nigeria of the role of informal providers in health markets.
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