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The impact of a mass media campaign on personal risk perception, perceived self-efficacy and on other behavioural predictorsS Agha
Department of International Health and Development, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
AIDS Care 15:749-62. 2003..Branded mass media campaigns that promote condom use as an attractive lifestyle choice are likely to contribute to the development of perceptions that are conducive to the adoption of condom use...
Does an expansion in private sector contraceptive supply increase inequality in modern contraceptive use?Sohail Agha
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal Street, Suite 2200, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Health Policy Plan 23:465-75. 2008..To determine whether an expansion in private sector contraceptive supply is associated with increased socio-economic inequality in the modern contraceptive prevalence rate (MCPR inequality)...- Changes in the timing of sexual initiation among young Muslim and Christian women in NigeriaSohail Agha
Department of International Health and Development, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, 1440 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Arch Sex Behav 38:899-908. 2009..With age at marriage already high among Christian women, programs that focus on abstinence until marriage may also be pursuing an approach with limited chances of success... - Equity in access to condoms in urban ZambiaSohail Agha
Department of International Health and Development, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
Health Policy Plan 18:299-305. 2003..This article examines the degree of equity in access to condoms in urban Zambia... - The impact of a reproductive health franchise on client satisfaction in rural NepalSohail Agha
Department of International Health and Development, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Health Policy Plan 22:320-8. 2007..The study shows that franchising reproductive health services increases a provider's interest in delivering better quality services in rural areas of a developing country... - Impact of a school-based peer sexual health intervention on normative beliefs, risk perceptions, and sexual behavior of Zambian adolescentsSohail Agha
Department of International Health and Development, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA
J Adolesc Health 34:441-52. 2004.... 
The impact of a hybrid social marketing intervention on inequities in access, ownership and use of insecticide-treated netsSohail Agha
Department of International Health and Development, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
Malar J 6:13. 2007..5 dollars per net. A study was conducted to assess the effects of the intervention on inequities in knowledge, access, ownership and use of ITNs...- The effects of religious affiliation on sexual initiation and condom use in ZambiaSohail Agha
Department of International Health and Development, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA
J Adolesc Health 38:550-5. 2006..To determine whether religious affiliation reduces HIV risk among young women in Zambia, and to examine the effects of religious affiliation on sexual initiation and on condom use during first sexual experience... - Changes in perceptions of quality of, and access to, services among clients of a fractional franchise network in NepalSohail Agha
Department of International Health and Development, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
J Biosoc Sci 39:341-54. 2007..In turn, this should lead to increased provider willingness to remain part of the franchise and to abide by the standards of quality set by the franchiser... - The impact on condom use of the "100% Jeune" social marketing program in CameroonDominique Meekers
Department of International Health and Development, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA
J Adolesc Health 36:530. 2005..The campaign aims to improve condom use through intensive youth-oriented mass media and interpersonal communications and widespread distribution of subsidized condoms... - The availability of socially marketed condoms in urban Tanzania, 1997-99Sohail Agha
Department of International Health and Development, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA
J Biosoc Sci 36:127-40. 2004..Regular monitoring of condom availability can ensure that any emerging supply problems are identified and remedied quickly... - An evaluation of the effectiveness of a peer sexual health intervention among secondary-school students in ZambiaSohail Agha
Commercial Market Strategies project
AIDS Educ Prev 14:269-81. 2002..These findings show that a school-based peer sexual health intervention implemented in Zambia was effective in increasing knowledge, positive normative beliefs about abstinence and condoms, and personal risk perception... - Declines in casual sex in Lusaka, Zambia: 1996-1999Sohail Agha
AIDSMark/PSI, Population Services International, Washington, DC 20036, USA
AIDS 16:291-3. 2002..Respondents with higher socioeconomic status were more likely to reduce casual sex. Condom use increased but the change was not statistically significant... - The impact of a microfinance program on client perceptions of the quality of care provided by private sector midwives in UgandaSohail Agha
Health Serv Res 39:2081-100. 2004..Overall, these findings suggest that microfinance may have an important role in strengthening private sector health services by increasing private providers' business skills and clients' satisfaction with services...