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A five-year EU-funded programme is helping to prevent blindness in some of the poorer countries of the Caribbean region; Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and St. Lucia. It is being coordinated by the United Kingdom based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Sightsavers International, with its partners in the Caribbean.
The multi-faceted project is funding a range of measures from the training of optometrists to the manufacturing of spectacles. On average...
After completing a first and Masters’ degree in geography at Dar es Salam University in Tanzania, Zahor Khalifa is spending the first year of his doctoral studies at the University of Turku. Pluses are the very latest software and small class sizes; among the minuses - adapting to Finland’s freezing winter temperatures!
“When I first arrived in September 2010, I stayed in my room for three or four days because it was so cold....
Brandenburg is banking on the technologies of the future to bring new dynamism to a Land with persistent record levels of unemployment. The Cottbus University of Technology is a living example of the policy at work.
“Founded in 1991, the university has 6,700 students, 1,000 of them foreign students from 90 different countries,” DrMarita Müller, director of public relations, tells us right away. At the time of the GDR,...
The recently held its fourth conference to promote public-private partnerships for prevention and medical care in Africa. Held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 7 to 9 February 2010, it was organised under the patronage of the Ethiopian Minister for Health and focused more specifically on cooperation between Africa’s health communities and international medical services.
The following subjects featured on the conference programme...
The expression is rather off-putting but it looks like it’s here to stay. It certainly has clarity on its side: “the health lens of foreign policy”. The two terms of the paradigm are closely interconnected and a growing number of international institutions have acquired the expertise and legal instruments needed to focus on the impact of diplomatic initiatives on world health and vice versa.
A key legal instrument is...
War has been declared on counterfeit medicines, which are ever more common, especially in poor countries. Some contraband medicines either do not contain any "active principles" at all or contain them in insufficient quantity, or else they conceal hazardous substances. They are also likely to lead to drug resistance on the part of serious pathogenic agents. The manufacture, sale or possession of these products is now to be considered a...
Much more than just primary health care
Rwanda has made considerable progress in the fight against some of the most serious infections, particularly impressive in the case of AIDS, with the number of children infected via their mothers down in the last four years from 11.4% (2005) to 4.1% (2009). It is expected that this rate will soon fall to 2%, as in the developed nations, and the aim is for this method of transmission to disappear...
Universal Healthcare Insurance (UHI) or health insurance, financed by the state, employers and possibly by private individuals, was long regarded as unattainable in developing countries. Unlike pensions, industrial accident insurance or free public schooling, this was not part of the colonial legacy bequeathed to the newly independent African or Caribbean states in the 1960s and 70s. Indeed, even in a former colonial power such as...
"A consideration of health in all aspects of the European Union's development policy." This principle, declared in two reference documents, a communication from the European Commission issued in March 2010 and a Council resolution in May 2010, both under the title of "The EU's role in global health”, is now a sacred rule says Juan Garay, Health Coordinator at the EuropeAid Development and Cooperation...
In recent years, the progress recorded in developing countries in terms of health makes gloomy reading. There is progress here and there, but the overall results are rather worrying. In this global overview the ACP countries are generally to be found in the low-to-average range, if one is to believe the UN report prepared before the September 2010 summit on the Millennium Development Goals*.
In comparison with the situation in 1990, three of...
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