Most PRIME II Technical Reports detail specific reproductive health care interventions, describing the context, methodology and results of a PRIME project and recommendations from its evaluation. Other reports focus on findings from needs assessments conducted prior to a training intervention or document follow-up studies that ascertain how well health care providers have retained the knowledge and skills they acquired during training. Research studies testing new approaches to service delivery were sometimes published as PRIME technical reports, often with implications for health care policies in particular countries.

Distance-based Learning to Introduce Primary Health Care Training and Service Delivery: A Case Study in South Africa (February 2000) (525KB)
Report No. 10
A report on PRIME/BASICS’ development of an innovative distance-based training program to assist Eastern Cape province in reorienting training and service delivery from a vertical system to a primary health care (PHC) approach. The goal of the PHC Comprehensive Skills for Trainers Program was to increase the availability and quality of integrated, comprehensive PHC services by developing training capability and capacity.