Summary of key informant interviews with representatives of organizations providing, funding, or supporting WASH services to refugee populations
Vulnerable and Marginalized Groups Planning Framework
This fourth WHO report on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) reviews the progress made towards achieving the Roadmap targets for 2020, noting the remaining challenges, then looks beyond 2020 to evaluate the changing global ...highlight medbox">health and development landscape, considering the implications of integrating these diseases into the broader 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
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Access to health workers who are fit for purpose, motivated and protected is a fundamental force of hea...lth service delivery and the achievement of universal health coverage and the health and health-related Sustainable Development Goals. Data and knowledge of the distribution, skill mix and future development needs of the health workforce can mean the difference between enabling or impeding health systems performance, inclusive economic growth and global health security preparedness and response
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This ten year global plan for measles and rubella outlines the strategy that needs to be fully implemented to achieve the measles and rubella goals... endorsed by the World Health Assembly. The plan sets out the: vision, goals and targets for the 2011-2020 period, recommended strategies, guiding principles, priorities, costing of reaching the targets, and the challenges as well as ways to overcome them.
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UNAIDS 2017 / Reference
Generating evidence for policy and action on HIV and social protection
(Health Systems in Transition, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2014)
Second Edition
Good Policy and Practice in HIV & AIDS and Education
In support of the African decade of disabled persons | 1st January 199 - 31st of December 2009
In this course you will examine the interconnections between poverty, development and violent conflict. This is one of seven Medical Peace Work courses.
The Kenyan Health Sector has been playing a critical role in
providing health care services in ...response to the population
needs in line with the Kenya Health Policy, 2014-2030’s goal
of attaining the highest possible health standards in a manner
responsive to the population needs.
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The power relations around global decisions which shape population health can be changed through new alliances and information flows. The Democratising Global ...box">Health Governance Initiative, of which WHO Watch is a project, is designed to contribute to improved population health (and health equity) through new alliances and information flows.
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The Third Rwandan Health Sector Strategic Plan (HSSP III) provides strategic guidance to the health sector for six years, between July 2012 ...lass="attribute-to-highlight medbox">and June 2018. HSSP III has been inspired and guided by the VISION 2020, which will make Rwanda a lower-middle-income country by 2020; the Rwandan Health Policy of 2004; and the priorities set out by the Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS 2008–2012).
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From policy to practice: how the TB-HIV response is working
“The HIV community must place much more focus on TB co-infection than
it has done to date. TB takes the lives of over 1000 people living with HIV
every day, a number which is absolutely unacceptable. This report highlights that
TB d...oesn’t have to be a death sentence for people living with HIV, but we need
more action. By joining forces, the HIV and TB community can finally give this
deadly issue the attention it deserves.”
– Mike Podmore, Director STOPAIDS
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This report explores the reasons why global health is critical to medicine and what this means for medical education. It argues that an understandi...ng of global health is important for all students and practicing doctors, rather than being an ‘add-on’ or ‘option’ for specialization.
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