One thing you can do is not treat. You can ration health care.

Girls receive an additional take home ration of vegetable oil as an incentive for families to continue to send girls to school.

In areas of acute or chronic food insecurity and or inaccessible areas, WFP provides a monthly take home ration of wheat to both girls and boys.

On both occasions, there was strong evidence of incitement by sheikhs within the camps, whose manipulation of the ration card system is threatened by the registration process.

Policymakers may not be able to compel citizens to ration their consumption. But governments can encourage manufacturers to change how they operate, so that they use fewer resources and eliminate unnecessary waste.

While a core basic ration is available to all citizens to meet their minimum needs, consumers can now also buy goods and services from different distribution channels, including the new consumers' markets'.

Deployment travel is calculated at an average one way cost of 1,000 per person, and ration costs are based on 8.89 per person day for food and 5.78 per person day for water.

Inadequate funding of the 2005 Consolidated Appeal Process forced humanitarian agencies to reduce the targeted number of persons receiving food assistance from 2.3 million to 1.2 million and the standard food ration by 40 per cent.

Moreover, ordinary Cubans fear that their ration cards their only means of getting food will be canceled. Indeed, according to Raúl, the state controlled food rationing system is a factor of immobility, but no one knows what might replace it.

Or if they get an extra ration of food at the end of the week it costs about 50 cents will keep a girl in school, and they'll give birth to a healthier child, because the malnutrition is sent generation to generation.

This reduction in the standard food ration has already contributed to the high malnutrition rates in parts of the country and the shortage of therapeutic and supplementary food has prevented an adequate response to the increasing number of malnourished children and women.

In mid 2004, a joint UNHCR WFP study of effective operational practices in relation to women's control of food in the household and participation in food distribution reaffirmed the need for refugee women to have individual identity documents, independent of ration cards.

There were some variations in the Public Distribution System (PDS) cereal rations between counties in August (2004) while most counties were able to increase the ration to 350 gr. p day from 300 in July (2004), others had to keep it at 300 or decrease it to 250.

But the Iranian budget is now running a 15 of GDP deficit, and foreign reserves are shrinking, despite the oil boom. Instead of distributing oil revenues through a program of low cost loans, as promised, the government has been forced to ration gasoline, as economic promise has given way to crisis.

It is important to note that even pragmatic arguments about rationing scarce medical resources can be highly controversial. During World War II, when army doctors were forced to ration doses of penicillin, they decided to give first priority to men with sexually transmitted diseases, who would be ready to return to the battlefield more quickly.