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Notes 1. See www.janaarogya.org/English/Janaarogya%20-%20Our%20Work.htm. 2. See www.hisp.org. 3. The Karuna Trust is a public charitable trust affiliated with the Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra, which has been providing basic health care, education, and livelihoods to tribal communities in Karnataka for the past 27 years. 4. Millennium Development Goals 4, 5, and 6 relate to improving health outcomes. 5. DHIS is an open-source software developed by the University of Oslo for monitoring health indexes at the facility level. DHIS was established as a pilot project in South Africa in 1994 and has since been rolled out to several states in India as well as other countries in the developing world. 6. See the NRHM website (http://nrhm.gov.in).
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