FRONTIERS
Research Projects in Sub-Saharan Africa
on Technical Assistance/Institution Building

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type.

2008
Diop, Nafissatou. "Technical assistance to the interagency coordination group seeking to reduce female genital mutilation/cutting,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 184 KB)

2007
"South Africa: Improve facility management to increase nurse retention," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 63. Washington, DC: Population Council. (full text)

2006
Birungi, Harriet, Philomena Nyarko, Ian Askew, Ayo Ajayi, Gifty Addico, Edward Addai, and Caroline Jehu-Appiah. "Priority setting for reproductive health at the district level in the context of health sector reforms in Ghana" FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 441 KB)

Boateng, James, Henry Surnye, Alex Mensah, Bismark Boateng, Philomena Nyarko, Nzoya Munguti, and John Bratt. "Cost of reproductive health services provided by four CHAG hospitals," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 224 KB)

Bruce, Egbert, Daniel Mensah, John Idun, Francis Ashabley, James Foreit, and Philomena Nyarko. "Face-to-face complementary selling of health products in Ghana," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 93 KB)

Foreit, James R. "Building capacity to utilize operations research: Strategies and lessons learned," FRONTIERS Program Brief no. 5. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 372 KB)

Munguti, Nzoya, Moses Mokua, Rick Homan, and Harriet Birungi. "Cost analysis of reproductive heath services in PCEA Chogoria Hospital, Kenya," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 89 KB)

RamaRao, Saumya, John Townsend, and Ian Askew. "Correlates of inter-birth intervals: Implications of optimal birth spacing strategies in Mozambique,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 134 KB)

2005
Chege, Jane N., Ian Askew, Nzwakie Mosery, Mbali Ndube-Nxumalo, Busi Kunene, Mags Beksinska, Janet Dalton, Ester Snyman, Wilem Sturm, and Preshny Moodley. "Feasibility of introducing a comprehensive package of antenatal care services in rural public clinics in South Africa,” FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 217 KB)

Mugumya, Nicholas, Juliana Nyombi, Michael Matsiko, Rick Homan, Harriet Birungi, and Nzoya Munguti. "Cost of training programs and willingness to pay for training: an application of break-even analysis in Uganda," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 229 KB)

2004
Postabortion Care (PAC) Initiative for Francophone Africa Committee. "Issues in postabortion care: Scaling-up services in Francophone Africa." Washington, DC: USAID/AFR/SD and SARA/AED. (PDF, 1.5 MB)

2003
Gyapong, John, Gifty Addico, Ivy Osei, Mercy Abbey, and Dominic Atweam Kobinah, Henrietta Odoi Agyarko, Gloria Quansah Asare, Harriet Birungi, and Ian Askew. "An assessment of trends in the use of the IUD in Ghana," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 781 KB)

2001
"Ghana: Community workers can communicate STI and HIV/AIDS messages effectively," FRONTIERS OR Summary no. 21. Washington, DC: Population Council. (PDF, 264 KB)

Copies of conference reports, summaries, program briefs, and research updates are available free of charge. Contact frontiers@popcouncil.org. FRONTIERS publications are also available on the USAID/DEC Web site, www.dec.org.

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