A group of NGOs has published guidelines on integrating the provision of sexual and reproductive health services into Global Fund Round 7 HIV/AIDS proposals. The Global Fund has thus far made few grants that deal with sexual and reproductive health (SRH). The guidelines state, however, that the Fund supports SRH-HIV/AIDS integration efforts and has indicated that SRH-based proposals would be acceptable as long as the impact on HIV and AIDS is clearly demonstrated. Seven priority areas are identified in the guidelines.
Useful Resources
Guidelines on integrating Sexual and Reproductive Health Services into Global Fund Round 7 Proposals
Physicians for Human Rights
HIV Manual: The PIH Guide to the Community-Based Treatment of HIV in Resource-Poor Settings
Partners In Health
Partners In Health has recently converted the 2006 edition of 'The Partners In Health Guide to Community-Based Treatment of HIV in Resource-Poor Settings' into an interactive, online version. The new website allows visitors to share insights about the manual and experiences in the field, to ask questions of each other, to answer others’ concerns and to foster a community of care. This interactive manual is distinctly a work in progress. Their long-term goal is to build an online knowledge community, a community where people working to ensure quality health care and social justice for the poor can exchange, comments, questions, lessons and examples drawn from their own experience, both with Partners In Health and with each other. Parners In Health expect this exchange to enrich all of their work, as well as future editions of The HIV Manual.
Health handbook for women with disabilities
Hesperian Foundation
Women with disabilities often discover that the social stigma of disability and inadequate care are greater barriers to health than the disabilities themselves. A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities will help women with disabilities overcome these barriers and improve their general health, self-esteem, and abilities to care for themselves and participate in their communities. This groundbreaking handbook was developed with the help and experience of women with disabilities in 42 countries-women with various disabilities. The book is full of useful advice on organising for disability-friendly health care, caring for daily needs with limited access to equipment, having healthy and safe sexual relationships, choosing family planning methods that work best with specific disabilities, preparing for pregnancy and childbirth, and defending against violence or abuse.
Introduction to DevInfo
DevInfo is a database system that harnesses the power of advanced information technology to compile and disseminate data on human development. In particular, the system has been endorsed by the UN Development Group (UNDG) to assist countries in monitoring achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It facilitates data sharing at the country level across government departments, UN agencies and development partners by providing methods to organise, store and display data in a uniform way. By the end of 2006, more than 90 national, regional and global DevInfo adaptations had been developed around the world. DevInfo has been adapted by several UN agencies for the dissemination of regional and global databases.
The Forum on the Future of Aid (FFA)
Forum on the Future of Aid
The Forum on the Future of Aid (FFA) website has recently been re launched. The FFA can make it easier for you to voice your opinions in the international aid debate. By accessing and contributing to the FFA website, you and others can share and generate new ideas, and help promote collective action for genuine reform of the international aid system. The website primarily provides exposure to work from developing countries (Africa, Asia and Latin America). For example, the FFA website includes research written by the Community Development Resource Network (CDRN) in Uganda, the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) in Bangladesh and the Centre for Development Studies and Promotion (CDSP) in Peru.
Use of DevInfo at the national level : Country example (Tanzania)
DevInfo
DevInfo is often used by UN Country Teams as an umbrella data system for creating a UN Common Database for the CCA-UNDAF, and further to help governments in the collation and dissemination of human development data. As a common data repository containing baseline and other information, the DevInfo database facilitates monitoring change and progress over time towards achieving the MDGs and other objectives in the UNDAF or other national plans. Following the need to have a common database in the country which would enhance accessibility of existing data, especially those related to sustainable human development issues, and facilitate wider use of newly collected data, the National Bureau of Statistics in Tanzania adapted DevInfo to develop the Tanzania Socio Economic Database (TSED). The database is very user-friendly.
Increasing public health spending in the South
ActionAid International USA
ActionAid International USA presents an introductory exploration of alternative macroeconomic policies for beginners from tuesday 13 March 2007 to 15 March 2007. This economic literacy training is designed to introduce US-based international advocacy organisations working on health, education, HIV/AIDS and women's rights to the issues and debates about how to increase public spending in poor countries throughout the Global South. This training is designed to provide a simple and clear introductory overview of the key issues for NGOs and non-economists, and will include several presentations by professional economists to explain the current policies and introduce possible alternatives that would enable countries to hire more doctors, nurses and teachers.
The BIAS FREE Framework: A practical tool for identifying and eliminating social biases in health research
Burke MA, Eichler M: Global Forum for Health Research
The BIAS FREE Framework is a new, rights-based tool for identifying and eliminating biases deriving from social hierarchies in research, legislation, policies, programs, service delivery and practices. We know that you will find the BIAS FREE Framework of interest. See www.globalforumhealth.org to order hard copies or to download a pdf version.
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The Global Right to Health
The North-South Institute: Canadian Development Report, 2007
The ninth edition of The North-South Institute’s flagship publication explores the right to health, why it is important to development and how it might best be achieved. The volume investigates public health care’s role in advancing development and also examines the role Canada is playing and might well play in achieving the global right to health. The CDR 2007 also includes up-to-date statistics and analysis related to social and economic indicators of developing countries, along with statistics regarding the Canadian government’s involvement with such countries.
Future Health Systems Research Programme Consortium website
DFID, November 2006
The main purpose of the Future Health Systems Research ProgrammeConsortium's (RPC) is to generate knowledge that shapes health systems to benefit the world's poor. Through research and partnership we want to inform and influence the health systems of the future in Nigeria, India, Uganda, Bangladesh, China and Afghanistan.