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I joined last week the Prince Mahidol Award conference in Bangkok on the above mentioned topic! The conference takes place annually and is one of the largest public health conferences in South East Asia.
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Ill health is both a cause and effect of poverty. In a vicious circle, poverty generates ill health, and poor health, in turn, brings more poverty. The EU, in order to improve the health conditions in developing countries, is taking action in health care as well as in other sectors like nutrition, water & sanitation, information & education for healthier behaviour and road safety. In health care, integrated approaches are more effective and more sustainable, this is why support is being redirected from single diseases interventions to more comprehensive health systems strengthen.
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Up-coming Webinars on COVID-19 and South-South Cooperation
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Post COVID-19: How can countries in the South work together to strengthen health systems around reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health Wednesday, 24 June 2020 | 9:00 - 10:30 EST It has been noted that maintaining the...
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Health policies & policy dialogue
Health Systems Strengthening
How to Finance Universal Health Coverage
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Universal Health Coverage (UHC) aims to ensure that everyone has access to good quality healthcare without facing financial hardship as a result of benefitting from these services. Nouria Brikci, a Senior Consultant for Oxford...
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Universal health coverage
The Health Sector has a Crucial Role to Play in Delivering Nutritional Interventions
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There is sound evidence that investing in improving the nutritional well-being of populations is one of the most cost-effective economic investments. Yet nutrition requires the attention of multiple sectors to bring about lasting...
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Q&A on Gender’s Impact on Healthcare Systems with Sally Theobald and Sarah Hawkes
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Sarah Hawkes is a Professor of Global Public Health at the Institute for Global Health at UCL. Sally Theobald is Chair in Social Science and International Health at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and part of the ReBUILD...
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Birth Day Prize
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The Birth Day Prize is a joint initiative between the EC, the Gates Foundation and MSD for Mothers programme. Cash prizes will be awarded to up to three innovators for identifying and implementing the most effective solutions to...
Philippines: Saving Lives with Clean and Safe Water
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Joliet, 30, is a Barangay Health Worker from Sinuda village ( barangay) in the province of Bukidnon in the southern part of The Philippines. She is also one of the indigenous peoples (IPs) living in the area and a member of the...
Malaria Research: How Eaves Tubes are Saving Lives
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“Most of the projects are quite successful because malaria research has come a long-way,” explains Inmaculada Penas Jimenez. She is a Scientific Officer working to fight infections diseases and global epidemics. Employed by the...
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Eradicating Malaria Through Innovation: Where Next After 2015
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On 27 January the Novartis Malaria Initiative invited development practitioners to an event at the European Parliament to discuss eradicating malaria through innovation. You can watch the event in the video below, a copy of the...
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Knowledge Management
Knowledge sharing
Addressing the Ebola Crisis in Sierra Leone: How the Delegation is responding
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“I think that the Ebola virus is something that has touched a nerve in the collective consciousness about everybody’s own deep seated individual fears about sickness and about infection and that has led to the reactions that we’ve...
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