[afro-nets] New Resource: New key issues guide on Market Development Approaches

["Ingrid Young" <I.Young@ids.ac.uk>]

New Resource: New key issues guide on Market Development Approaches
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New key issues guide on Market Development Approaches Market development approaches (MDAs) to reproductive health are initiatives that work towards enhanced financial sustainability, improved access and expanded choice. The term "market development approach" encompasses a very broad set of approaches to health care delivery, but by definition involves the commercial sector. A number of factors are changing the current reproductive health supplies environment and increasing interest in MDAs.  These include decreasing or uncertain funding, expanding global markets and the demand for more cost-effective supplies. MDAs can respond to these circumstances by addressing sustainability, access and choice through greater involvement of the commercial sector. This new key issues guide, from the Health Systems Resource Guide, is a tool for donors, governments and implementers to learn about MDAs for reproductive health and begin thinking of options and issues to encourage, design, implement, manage and evaluate MDAs. Content includes MDA tools, examples of MDAs and country case studies. The guide was produced for the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition http://www.rhsupplies.org/coalition.shtml  with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm
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See the guide at: http://www.eldis.org/healthsystems/mda/ 

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Ingrid Young
IDS Health and Development Information team

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