The roll-out of the Mother-Baby Pack in Kenya marks the beginning of a phased implementation in four African countries, also including Cameroon, Lesotho and Zambia.
While significant gains have been made in the last decade, including the roll-out of HAART and the implementation of the DOTS Strategy, many lessons are yet to be learned.
Investments in innovative products with the potential to impact on health would be a pragmatic approach for future research, though the roll-out of research and any subsequent implementation must be appropriate.
These results can provide guidance, lessons and recommendations to policy makers (MoH, CHAM Secretariat) in replicating and strengthening the implementation of SLAs in the roll-out of universalization policy and to other contexts attempting similar initiatives.
The paper provides recommendations to policy makers for the replication and strengthening of SLA implementation in the roll-out of universalization policy.
Nonetheless, near the end of this period, considerable efforts and gains led to the roll-out of strategies and conditions more likely to result in the successful implementation of the project.
The guide for key informants solicited information on how the VMMC upscale programme was started, its implementation challenges, and people's response to the roll-out of VMMC for HIV prevention.
"The implementation of the Child Rights Bill provides us with an operational framework for the roll-out of child rights in Sierra Leone", said the UNICEF Representative, Geert Cappelaere.
When a lifetime horizon was adopted the results suggest that the full implementation of U@Uni is unlikely to be cost-effective, whereas the roll-out of U@Uni to another university is extremely likely to be cost-effective.
The results suggest that based upon the assumptions of the long-term modelling, the roll-out of U@Uni to other universities would most likely be a cost-effective option for the UK Department of Health, whereas the full implementation would not.
As the roll-out of plain packs reached 80% or more of smokers surveyed in the third week of November (1 2 weeks before the December implementation date), the responses of branded pack smokers approached those of plain pack smokers.
