As the population of Africa rapidly urbanizes it may be possible to protect large populations from malaria by controlling aquatic stages of mosquitoes. This report presents a baseline evaluation of the ability of community members to detect mosquito larval habitats with minimal training and supervision in the first weeks of an operational urban malaria control program.
Governance and participation in health
Community-based surveillance of malaria vector larval habitats: a baseline study in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Vanek MJ, Shoo B, Mtasiwa D, Kiama M, Lindsay SW, Fillinger U, Kannady K, Tanner M, Killeen GF: BMC Public Health 6:154, 15 June 2006
CSOs press for greater involvement against HIV/AIDS
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African Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have accused heads of governments in the continent of ‘tactfully shutting’ them out of the fight against the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The CSOs made the accusation in Abuja where they attended a three-day consultative meeting to review the 2001 Abuja Declaration and Framework of Action on HIV and AIDS, Tuberculosis and other related infectious diseases. In a statement they said that ‘without a massive and sustained effort to meaningfully involve CSOs, the global difficulties in reaching three million people with treatment will also be encountered in extending Universal Access to treatment.
Residents of cholera-hit areas unhappy about water supply
Allafrica.com
Residents of Angolan capital city Luanda's compounds hit by cholera voiced dissatisfaction at the local Government's distribution of treated water as a measure to arrest the spread of the disease. Since the epidemics was declared in Luanda on 13 February, some areas most affected by the disease, have been supplied with water by the Luanda Government (GPL). In order to overcome the poor supply of water to the populations at a time cholera is severely hitting the capital, GPL decided to supply twice a week.
South African government plan promises quality healthcare system
BuaNews: Dlamini N
On World Health Day, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang announced the launch of a government strategy to ensure that the public health sector has essential human capital to deliver quality care. The National Human Resource Plan for Health is one of the health department's strategies to deal with the critical shortage and migration of health workers from the country.
We cannot fight AIDS unless we do much more to fight TB
SAfAIDS\' statement on World TB Day : Nelson Mandela. International AIDS Conference. Bangkok 2004
Tuberculosis (TB) is a curable and preventable disease, yet it is still infecting and killing millions of people throughout the world. This article discusses how more efforts are needed to address the increasing incidence of TB and HIV in many southern African countries. Advocacy efforts need to encourage governments and international funding agencies to develop appropriate responses to urgently address the co-pandemics.
Further details: /newsletter/id/31363
What is the evidence on effectiveness of empowerment to improve health?
Wallerstein N, Health Evidence Network
A new report from the Health Evidence Network shows that empowering socially excluded populations is a viable strategy for improving health. While participatory processes make up the base of empowerment, strategies must also build community organizations and individuals capacity to participate in decision-making and advocacy.
Stakeholders: Goverment-NGO partnerships for international development
Source : Multi Stakeholder Processes
This book talks about the changing relations between and roles of development NGOs and donor governmental agencies, based on case studies of 22 western countries, EU and the World Bank.
What is the evidence on effectiveness of empowerment to improve health?
WHO Regional Office for Europe -Health Evidence Network Report
A new report from the Health Evidence Network shows that empowering socially excluded populations is a viable strategy for improving health. While participatory processes make up the base of empowerment, strategies must also build community organizations and individuals capacity to participate in decision-making and advocacy.
Changing Paths: International Development and the New Politics of Inclusion
Edited by Peter P. Houtzager and Mick Moore
After two decades of marketizing, an array of national and international actors have become concerned with growing global inequality, the failure to reduce the numbers of very poor people in the world, and a perceived global backlash against international economic institutions. The essays in this volume explore what forms a new politics of inclusion can take in low- and middle-income countries. The contributors favor a polity-centered approach that focuses on the political capacities of social and state actors to negotiate large-scale collective solutions and that highlights various possible strategies to lift large numbers of people out of poverty and political subordination.
Governance and corruption in public health care systems
Equidad listserv : PAHO
"What factors affect health care delivery in the developing world? Anecdotal evidence of lives cut tragically short and the loss of productivity due to avoidable diseases is an area of salient concern in global health and international development. This working paper looks at factual evidence to describe the main challenges facing health care delivery in developing countries, including absenteeism, corruption, informal payments, and mismanagement. The author concludes that good governance is important in ensuring effective health care delivery, and that returns to investments in health are low where governance issues are not addressed." (Author's abstract)