I personally believe that alongside this basic package of interventions, we can do much more in the next 10 years to expand access to safe water and provide better nutrition.
Indications are very encouraging, with marked improvements not just in coverage rates for basic packages of interventions, but also in reduced mortality rates.
38,000 health extension workers, all women, have been trained to provide a basic package of these health intervention services.
Professor Sachs's message was that the poorest countries could not afford even the most basic package of drugs and other interventions that the WHO Commission had identified as "best buys", just as they had been unable to pay for the very low-cost benefits discussed in the World Bank's World Development Report of 1993.
The countries of the WHO African Region face critical constraints in financing their health systems to provide a basic package of cost-effective health care interventions deemed necessary to achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals [ 1].
In addition, the Ministry of Health is obliged to include only new interventions into the basic package of services if they are cost-effective in comparison to other possible interventions.
They are responsible for a basic package of 16 services, including immunization, treatment of common illnesses, basic maternal and newborn care, sanitation, and health education.
Participating women were provided with a basic package of maternal and newborn health promotion messages and interventions, delivered at two home visits during pregnancy.
Since the chlorhexidine intervention was implemented in the context of a basic package of maternal and newborn care, this study will provide data on the impact of chlorhexidine cleansing which is additional to the effect of the basic package of care which is being scaled up in Bangladesh.
Beer halls in the comparison arm of the study received a basic package of HIV prevention materials consistent with what was available in Zimbabwe at the time the study intervention took place.
