Policy lessons

Bridging the gap between Research, Policy and Practice

There has been a lot of enthusiasm in recent times from various stakeholders and interest groups on the need for more human and material resources to address the numerous health challenges in developing countries. On another hand, the pressure for governments to be more accountable to both their...

Understanding adolescent fertility trends through collaboration and capacity building

Twenty-nine researchers from 18 African Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) sites gathered last month in Accra, Ghana for an adolescent fertility data analysis workshop. The workshop was organized by theINDEPTH Network, a global network of 49 HDSS field sites (38...

Improving Policies for Home Management of Fevers in Children

Improving Policies for Home Management of Fevers in Children Under-five Years in Ghana Dodowa Health Research Centre (DHRC)

Ending the HIV Pandemic – INDEPTH’s research contribution – April 2014

The uniquely robust data generated by INDEPTH member centres have helped make the Millennium Development Goal of reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015 achievable. By identifying how the virus has spread, which population groups are hardest hit, and how the disease can be most successfully...

INDEPTH highlight leaflet - Born, lived and died - but counted or not?

Much of the developing world, especially sub-Saharan Africa, is characterised by incomplete or no vital registration systems. With the majority of deaths occurring at home in such poor settings, they are usually not registered and causes of death are hardly ascertained. The unavailability of cause-...