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Health Systems Impact Assessments

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:28:44 +0000

Read an article about the need for Global Health Impact Assessments

Fighting Disease my harm Global Health

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:24:22 +0000

Read an article about the impact of disease focused Global Health programs.

Resolution on Primary Health Care Accepted at WHO

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:51:07 +0000

Read the Resolution accepted by the World Health Organization at the World Health Assembly on May 22, 2009.

Uganda: Our Primary Healthcare was Enviable

admin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:51:08 +0000

A Primary Healthcare Specialist in Uganda, De. Kyabagu, sheds light on the health problems in Uganda, stressing that primary healthcare is necessary to provide adequate healthcare to the people of Uganda.

"The political turmoil… brought down the public health system. It was further buried in 1986 when the Government implemented the World Bank/IMF programmes of decentralisation.Speaking at the Public Healthcare Global conference in Alma Ata, Kyabagu said the new system opts for selective rather than comprehensive primary healthcare services, which has led to the rise of disease loads, overwhelmed health systems, diminishing personnel and constrained budgets."

Possible funding for Primary Healthcare in Nigeria

admin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:28:15 +0000

“We believe that when that fund is provided, it has to start from primary health care. We believe government should fund is basic primary health care for all Nigerians and after that we can then add some secondary intervention.”

HAITI: Donors single out AIDS

admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:56:11 +0000

Jacmel address the detrimental effects that PEPFAR and other sources of vertical funding have had on the country of Haiti. Unicef continues to rank Haiti with the highest infant and mortality rate. And although money continues to flow into the community, PEPFAR funds can only be allocated to different areas of the hospital if they provide HIV related services. The hospital has only one ambulance and no x-ray machine, despite the fact that the HIV clinic is equipped with a computerized record keeping system.

"There are other illnesses we see every day, but because they don’t have HIV, we can’t help them," said Margarette Vernet, the hospital administrator.

Expert calls for strong primary care services

admin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:11:38 +0000

"Poor primary health care countries have higher mortality rates while primary care-oriented countries have fewer low birth weight infants, lower infant mortality (especially post neonatal), fewer years of life lost due to suicide, and higher life expectancy, she maintained."

The dangers of disease specific programmes

admin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:37:49 +0000

This article, written by Roger England and published in the BMJ, discusses the problems with funneling global aid into disease specific initiatives.

"What is missing is strengthened national healthcare systemsthat can deliver the range of services that countries need,according to their own priorities, not those of internationallobby groups. No one is funding this adequately"

Promotional Brochure

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:45:36 +0000

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Historic Conference on PHC

admin — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:54:12 +0000

This news article published back in April addresses the need for primary health care and the things that hinder its progression such as vertically driven health promotions.