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Commonwealth Ministers of Health held their 2006 Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, on Sunday, 21 May. The theme of the Meeting was Human Resources for Health . For details kindly click here.
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SPECIAL SUMMIT OF AFRICAN UNION ON HIV/AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS
AND MALARIA (ATM) 2-4 MAY, 2006 ABUJA, NIGERIA - For details click here
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Africa faces a huge burden of potentially preventable and
treatable disease that not only causes unnecessary deaths
and untold suffering; it continues to block economic development
and damages the continent's social fabric. Successful implementation
of the NEPAD health strategy is contingent upon the achievement
of innovative and effective partnerships between African governments
and health development partners, based on the principle of
African ownership, and underpinned by active collaboration
and coordination at the global, regional and national levels"
New Partnership for Africa's Development.
For further details on NEPAD Health Strategy kindly visit http://www.nepad.org/2005/files/health.php
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Red Letter Day for NHS Links with Developing Countries as
New Links start up and Health Department seconds Senior Manager
to help promote a "Step Change"
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The Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET), the
charity that promotes training for health workers in developing
countries, today announces two significant developments in
the campaign to encourage sustainable links between NHS hospitals
Trusts and other NHS organisations and their counterparts
in the developing world.
For further details click here to download Seedcorn
funding PRESS RELEASE document.
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British Medical Association/ Africa,
All-Party Parliamentary Group briefing meeting on the international recruitment of healthcare professionals took place on the 19th December 2005. Since the establishment of the NHS in 1948, the UK’s medical and nursing professions have relied to a varying extent upon migrant workers. The extent of this reliance – and of the mobility of health workers themselves – has varied according to labour market requirements.
For further details click here Briefing for Skillsdrain Meeting Dec05 - Website
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The MENTOR Initiative is a new purpose built initiative designed to strengthen the capacity of emergency focused agencies and national partners to implement more effective and coordinated action to reduce malaria related morbidity and mortality.
The MENTOR Initiative is a charitable "not for profit" organisation and works in close collaboration with Roll Back Malaria partners, UN, NGO's, ICRC, IFRC and national partners in emergency, refugee affected countries as well as a network of academic and commercial partners..
For further details click here www.mentor-initiative.net
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Strengthening the African Connection in Public Health
The International Committee is committed to the Faculty of Public Health making a contribution to international public health. The choice of "Strengthening the Public Health Connection in Africa" as the theme of the workshop is timely with the report of the Prime Minister's Commission for Africa and the UK's presidency's of the G8 and EU in 2005.
For further details click here REPORT - Africa Workshop 2005
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European Commission (EC) Policy on Health, AIDS, Population and Development
The EC policy on health, AIDS, population and development emphasises the close relationship between poor health and poverty, and recognises the importance of improved health outcomes for economic growth and development. Health features prominently in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the United Nations’ Millennium Summit in September 2000 with three out of eight goals:
Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five child mortality rate.
Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality rate.
Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS, and the incidence of malaria and other major diseases.
While ambitious, the European Commission feels that these targets are achievable given the will linked to sufficient funds to do so. In 2002, the EC established a policy framework ’s to guide investment in health, AIDS and population for attainment of the MDGs comprised of a Commission Communication and a Council resolution on health and poverty. The EC’s approach emphasises the fight against the major communicable diseases, AIDS malaria and TB, the improvement of sexual and reproductive health and rights as well as other issues.
Progress towards the health MDGs also depends on coordination and partnerships with European Union (EU) Member states and other donors. It is monitored through a set of specific indicators.
For further details click here
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