Utilization of antenatal care services by Sudanese women in their reproductive age.

Objective: To describe the current antenatal care situation in Sudan with regard to routine utilization of antenatal health care services and application of tetanus toxoid (TT) vaccination in urban and rural areas.

Methods: The study was conducted in Khartoum State, Sudan, between August and December 2002. Interviews were held among a representative sample of 400 married women aged 15-49 years from both urban and rural localities.

Reforms of health care system in Romania.

Aim: To describe health care reforms and analyze the transition of the health care system in Romania in the 1989-2001 period.

Method: We analyzed policy documents, political intentions and objectives of health care reform, described new legislation, and presented changes in financial resources of the health care system.

Results: The reforms of the health care system in Romania have been realized in a rather difficult context of scarcity of financial and human resources.