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NICHE performs projects in three research programmes:

Improving access for the poor. Projects identify barriers to access to health services and evaluate interventions to reduce these.

Ensuring value for money. Projects perform cost, cost-effectiveness and multi-criteria decision analysis trading off efficiency and equity concerns.

Revitalizing health for all: primary health care. Projects evaluate the performance of primary health care worldwide and identify determinants of health.

Costs and effects of HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa and ...

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently awarded € 150,000 for research into the costs and effects of antiret...
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Mainstreaming a health systems approach to maternal health p...

NICHE collaborates with AIGHD (Amsterdam) and institutes in South Africa and Rwanda on the WOTRO funded project 'Mainstr...
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SANDPAD: quality of care of home-based care in South Africa

This project investigates the quality of care provided in the field of home-based care, with particular reference to rur...
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COST-Africa : Clinical Officer Surgical Training in Malawi a...

Obstetrical and abdominal emergencies, and trauma, much of it affecting children, represent a major and neglected part o...
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Costs and effects of school-based sexuality education in six...

Policy makers all over the world, involved in decisions on school-based sexuality education (SE) programmes, are facing ...
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Barriers to access to antiretroviral treatment in Mozambique...

Mozambique faces one of the highest HIV/AIDS prevalences in Africa. Although anti-retroviral therapy is now available, o...
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How to scale-up ART? A data and modeling study to determine ...

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV infection in developing countries has become a major public health intervention and...
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Economic analysis of HIV/AIDS control among injecting drug u...

The project is part of a larger program entitled “Prevention, control and treatment of HIV/AIDS among intravenous ...
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Reaching the poor in Ghana's National Health Insurance - an ...

The Government of Ghana has passed a national Health Insurance Act in 2003 to set up mutual health organizations (MHO) i...
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Priority setting of health interventions in Thailand - desig...

Various criteria are considered important in the decision on the allocation of resources in health, such as cost-e...
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Cost-effectiveness and equity impact of breast cancer contro...

This project aims to assist nine developing countries in planning and/or further improving the effectiveness and cost-ef...
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Impact of reproductive health services on socio-economic dev...

Whereas knowledge regarding the operational design of reproductive health is increasingly available, its impact on...
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The feasibility of beauty salons as a setting for health pro...

The beauty salon is emerging as a promising setting for health promotion globally. Salons are located everywhere, ...
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Strengthening teaching and research on public health in Viet...

The program aims to enhance quality of teaching and research for those institutions in Vietnam producing the staff...
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Multi-criteria priority setting in HIV/AIDS control in Indon...

This program aims to support policy makers on the priority setting of HIV/AIDS interventions in West-Java, as resources ...
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Cost-effectiveness of uncorrected refractive error

This project examines the costs, health effects and cost-effectiveness of passive and active screening for untreated ref...
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of delivery models of hearing ai...

Different models exist to deliver hearing aids to envisioned target populations – through passive and/or active sc...
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Revitalizing Health for All: Comprehensive Primary Health Ca...

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Micronutrient supplementation on tuberculosis treatment in T...

Macro- and micronutrient deficiency are commonly found among the tuberculosis (TB) patients. Moreover, multiple m...
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