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The Global Health Initiative in Malawi : This December 2011 report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies discusses the work of the Global Health Initiative (GHI) in Malawi. The Obama administration designated Malawi as a GHI Plus country in June 2010, one of the first eight countries selected to implement the Global Health Initiative's (GHI) more comprehensive approach to global health and serve as learning labs for other GHI country programs.
- Center for Health Market Innovations Highlights: 2011 Report: The Center for Health Market Innovations (CHMI) accelerates innovative health initiatives by informing and connecting program managers, funders, researchers and policy makers who strive to create better health markets for the poor. This report highlights key observations about innovative, market-based health programs based on CHMI's initial phase of operation.
- Scaling Up Prevention of Mother-to-Child-Transmission of HIV: This November 2011 report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies discusses the essential role that prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV has in the fight against HIV.
- Safer, Faster, Cheaper: Improving Clinical Trials and Regulatory Pathways to Fight Neglected Tropical Diseases: The Center for Global Development released a report in October 2011 that outlines how developing countries should take a streamlined, regional approach to regulating clinical trials for drugs against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs).
- Improving Women's Health in South Africa: A period of major change is unfolding in health and HIV services in South Africa, carrying opportunities and risks for delivering effective, integrated health services that improve health outcomes and save lives. This October 2011 paper from the Center for Strategic and International Studies reports on how South Africa is decentralizing HIV services to the primary health care level, paving the way for greater integration to address women's health and to reduce maternal mortality.
- Final Report from the 61st Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa: The sixty-first session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa took place in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, from 29 August to 2 September 2011. The Regional Committee, comprising health ministers from 46 Member States, is the Governing Body of WHO in the African Region. Its purpose is to set policy and approve the budget and programme of the work of WHO in the Region.
- Designing Public-Private Partnerships in Health: The USAID-funded Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) project released a July 2011 publication entitled “Designing Public-Private Partnerships in Health.” This primer proposes a new definition for public-private partnerships (PPPs) in health that opens up a flexible range of partnering opportunities while emphasizing the importance of formal agreements and honest brokers in the process.
- Mobilizing Development: The UN Foundation-Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership published a June 2011 report that looks back at the five-year, $28 million partnership that has explored how mobile technology can advance health, development and humanitarian goals.
- Improving Access to Essential Medicines through Public-Private Partnership: A 2011 report by the International Vaccine Access Center at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health asks why products like Coca Cola can reach remote villages in developing nations while essential medicines like antibiotics cannot always be found. The report documents the poor availability of essential health products (EHPs) in sub-Saharan Africa and explores how to improve EHP distribution via collaborations with the private sector.
- Clinical Social Franchising Compendium: An Annual Survey of Programs, 2011: This May 2011 publication on social franchising by the Global Health Group presents program descriptions and statistics on 50 clinical social franchises from around the world.
- Investing in Health for Africa: The Case for Strengthening Systems for Better Health Outcomes:A 2011 report published by Harmonization for Health in Africa demonstrates that investing an additional US$21-36 per person in Sub-Saharan Africa could save states US$100 billion by 2015.
- UNAIDS 2011-2015 Strategy: Getting to Zero: UNAIDS will be guided by the new UNAIDS strategy 2011–2015, which aims to advance global progress in achieving country set targets for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support and to halt and reverse the spread of HIV and contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development goals by 2015.
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Resources on Non-Communicable Diseases in Africa:
- Political Declaration of the High-Level Meeting of the UN General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases: In September 2011, the UN General Assembly adopted by consensus the resolution titled “Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases."
- Bringing Agriculture to the Table: How Agriculture and Food Policy can Play a Role in Preventing Chronic Disease: In conjunction with the September 2011 UN High-Level Meeting on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), a report released by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs calls on the agriculture and food sectors to play a role in mitigating the global rise in NCDs. The report identifies new opportunities for those in heath and agriculture to work together to promote better health and finds that if the agriculture and food sector works more closely with the health sector, the rising prevalence of diet-related NCDs and early deaths can be reduced through better nutrition and healthier lifestyles.
- Non-communicable Diseases: A Priority for Women's Health and Development: This publication is the first to focus on the specific needs and challenges of girls and women at risk of, or living with, non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
- Video: Tackling the Global Non-communicable Diseases Epidemic: How the Private Sector Can and Should Be Part of the Solution: Jean-Luc Butel, Executive Vice President, International at Medtronic addresses the private-sector role in developing long-term solutions to non-communicable diseases.
General Resources:
- FHI360 Reports and Publications on HIV/AIDS: Browse a searchable database of more than 3,000 full-text documents on a wide range of issues related to HIV/AIDS.
- The United Nations Development Programme's Growing Markets Initiative 2008 Report: "Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing Business with the Poor" The UNDP report examines the contraints and opportunities for for-profit enterprises in low-resource areas.
- Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) and Environmental Defense Fund's 2008 Guide to Successful Corporate-NGO Partnerships Though GEMI/EDF's report focuses on successful partnerships in the environmental sector, it includes models and strategies for partnership design that are applicable to health sector initiatives.
- WHO & Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) “Scaling Up, Saving Lives” Report This report was issued in May 2008 and relays the findings of the GHWA Task Force for Scaling up Education and Training for Health Workers. In pooling evidence from 10 country case studies (including Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Tanzania), the report recommends a 10-year plan to help solve the workforce shortage, and it is a firm believer in public-private partnerships .
- The Business of Health in Africa: Partnering with the Private Sector to Improve People's Lives. IFC has recently released this report, which is the result of research on the role and impact of Africa's private health sector.
