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Blood Services in Central Asian Health Systems : A Clear and Present Danger of Spreading HIV/AIDS and Other Infectious DiseasesThe report discusses inter-related parts of blood transfusions systems, and presents an overview of the parts that need to be strengthened in Central Asia. Numerous parts are in serious need of organizational restructuring, new investment and increased budgetary support for operation and maintenance. This report sets them out such that each can be addressed in turn and some simultaneously. The report also discusses the health threat posed by alarmingly low levels of blood supplies, fostered by a culture that places little value on donating blood, public fear of being infected by giving blood, and the near absence of donor promotion campaigns.
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Capitalizing on the Demographic Transition : Tackling Noncommunicable Diseases in South AsiaThis book looks primarily at Cardio
 Vascular Disease (CVD) and tobacco use because they account
 for a disproportionate amount of the Non Communicable
 Disease (NCD) burden the focus is strategic rather than
 comprehensive. It considers both country and regional level
 approaches for tackling NCDs, as many of the issues and
 challenges of mounting an effective response are common to
 most South Asian countries. The prevention and control of
 NCDs constitute a development issue that low-income
 countries in South Asia are already facing. Both country and
 regional-level strategies are important because many of the
 issues and challenges of mounting an effective response to
 NCDs are common to most South Asian countries, even though
 their disease burden profiles vary. Hence, the rationale for
 this book is that strategic decisions for prevention and
 treatment of NCDs can effectively address the future burden
 of disease, promote healthy aging, and increase the
 potential benefit from the demographic transition, thus
 contributing to economic development. This book's goal
 is to encourage countries to develop, adopt, and implement
 effective and timely country and regional responses that
 reduce the population-level risk factors and NCD disease burden.
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Evidence-based Implementation Efficiency Analysis of the HIV/AIDS National Response in ColombiaThis study on the implementation
 efficiency of the HIV/AIDS national response in Colombia
 seeks to examine how it has been implemented -- whether it
 has been done according to the available evidence about the
 epidemic and as the response was originally planned. The
 study approaches three specific dimensions of implementation
 efficiency: (i) programmatic; (ii) budgetary; and (iii)
 service delivery. The study uses a range of research
 techniques, including: (i) documentary analysis of key
 policies, official publications and reports; (ii)
 semi-structured interviews with representatives of the
 central government and territorial entities, international
 and community-based organizations, insurers, care providers,
 etc.; and (iii) case-study analysis to visualize the ways in
 which people are cared for in practice. The available data
 suggest that the HIV/AIDS response is succeeding in keeping
 the prevalence low and the epidemic concentrated. In recent
 years, the level of health coverage has increased and the
 quality of care services has improved. The identified
 problems in service delivery (mostly related to coverage and
 access) are linked to system fragmentation and integration,
 and to the nature of the coordination mechanisms, both at
 the national and the territorial level. The effectiveness of
 the response would benefit from re-energized leadership at
 both the national and local levels -- articulated through
 the existing programmatic framework and coordinating
 mechanisms. The complexity of the system and the lack of
 budgetary and expenditure information have impeded the
 evaluation of the budgetary efficiency of the HIV/AIDS response.