USAID. Bur. for Science and Technology. Ofc. of Health

The Mass Media and Health Practices Project - currently underway in Honduras, Gambia, Ecuador, Peru, and Swaziland - is developing integrated health communication strategies to deliver information to rural women on the prevention and home… (DEC abstract (PN-AAR-252))

A knowledge, attitudes, and practices survey relating to water and sanitation was conducted in rural Swaziland to provide baseline data for the design of a national health education strategy aimed at reducing the incidence of water-borne… (DEC abstract (PN-AAL-442))

Because people in developing countries are frequently forced to use contaminated water in preparing the oral rehydration solutions (ORS) used to combat the effects of diarrhea, the question has been raised whether and how ORS's can be… (DEC abstract (PN-AAJ-536))

This operations research intervention -- an innovative program for training and following up on community health workers -- was initiated in Bogota, Colombia, after a systems analysis conducted by the Fundacion Santa Fe de Bogota showed… (DEC abstract (PN-ABE-957))

An experimental maternal/child health and family planning program has been in existence in Matlab, Bangladesh, for almost ten years. (DEC abstract (PN-ABB-739))

Small-scale irrigation projects often face serious programming problems such as escalating recurrent costs, inflexible design, nonfunctioning irrigation groups, inadequate agency capacity, and, most critically and ambiguously of all, the… (DEC abstract (PN-AAQ-701))

This paper examines the basis of ethnomedical classification of diarrheal disease among the Swahili-speaking population of Lubumbashi, Zaire, and the association of specific diagnoses with treatments given. (DEC abstract (PN-ABU-618))

The public hospitals in the Dominican Republic are increasingly squeezed financially due to frozen operating budget allocations from the Secretriat for Public Health and Welfare (SESPAS). (DEC abstract (PN-ABE-475))

Consultants from A.I.D.'s Vector Biology Control Project helped USAID/Santo Domingo have developed a contingency plan for emergency control of dengue outbreaks in the Dominican Republic. (DEC abstract (PN-ABA-295))

Conflicting evidence from recent research on the extent of the link between Vitamin A deficiency and child morbidity and mortality in developing countries is assessed in this report. (DEC abstract (PN-ABB-705))

PACR of a project (4/86-6/92) to increase the potable water supply in Central Tunisia. (DEC abstract (PD-ABF-982))

Within 30 years, 72% of people over the age of 55 will live in developing countries, with women comprising the majority in this age group. (DEC abstract (PN-ABK-860))