Presentations from the People's Health Assembly 2, held in Ecuador in July, are now available on a central website. Africa-related presentations include 'Improving Care And Implementing Intersectoral Action Through Participatory Research And Advocacy : An Example From Rural South Africa' by David Sanders, from the School of Public Health at the University of the Western Cape and ' The war of the transnational oil companies against the people' by Nnimmo Bassey from Nigeria.
Useful Resources
Pharmatalk - Creating communities
Pharmatalk.co.tz will feature a variety of discussion groups and you can post and receive messages online as well as create your own groups as you go along.
PlusNews treatment map
At the end of 2004, PlusNews introduced a periodically updated Treatment Map to monitor the rollout of antiretroviral treatment in Africa, providing data for each country on the total number of people on treatment, the drug regimens used, and latest funding provided by the Global Fund, World Bank and PEPFAR. PlusNews is pleased to announce updated data for the following countries: Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda, Madagascar, South Africa, Ghana, Botswana, Namibia.
Population and Related Information Online
POPLINE®(POPulation information onLINE) provides citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature on population, family planning, and related health issues. The world's largest bibliographic population database, POPLINE® brings together 300,000 records representing published and unpublished literature in the field.
Population, health and environment monitoring and evaluation training tool kit
Szerző A: MEASURE Evaluation PRH, 2011
The aim of this training tool kit is to increase the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity, skills and knowledge of those who plan, implement, and evaluate innovative, integrated health and community development programmes in low-resource settings. The tool kit provides managers, technical specialists, and M&E staff with user-friendly, modifiable training components to adapt for a specific developing-country and programmatic context. Users will learn to conduct effective M&E from programme inception to indicator selection through assessment design. The tool kit also promotes M&E efforts that highlight the integrated nature of these programmes and the unique contributions Population, Health and Environment (PHE) programmes make over traditional single-sector efforts.
Positive prevention: HIV prevention with people living with HIV and AIDS
The International HIV and AIDS Alliance, 2007
The International AIDS Alliance has produced a resource to help service providers working across the spectrum of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services to take steps towards integrating HIV prevention for, by and with people living with HIV (PLWHA). The guide does not discuss or review all HIV prevention strategies and focuses largely on the sexual transmission of HIV. It consists of 15 strategies arranged into four themes including individually focused health education and support; ensuring access, scaling up and improving service delivery; community mobilisation and advocacy and policy change. For each section the guide details issues to consider including the most sensitive ways of dealing with HIV status disclosure; how best to provide information about testing, counselling and treatmentand how to facilitate post test clubs and support groups.
Practical Epidemiology: Using Epidemiology to Support Primary Health Care
Vaughan JP, Victora C, , Chowdhury AMR: OUP, 2021
This book focuses on district health systems and is intended for those working in primary health care. It presents practical uses for epidemiological concepts and methods and how to use population information to strengthen planning, management and evaluation. It is available open access online as a downloadable pdf, and a hardcopy can also be purchased.
Primary Health Care Performance Initiative Toolkits
Primary Health Care Performance Initiative Website
The Primary Health Care Performance Initiative (PHCPI) is a new partnership that brings together country policymakers, health system managers, practitioners, advocates and other development partners to catalyse improvements in primary health care (PHC) in low- and middle-income countries through better measurement and knowledge-sharing. PHCPI aims to help countries to track key performance indicators for their PHC systems, identifying which parts of the system are working well and which ones aren’t. It aims to enhance accountability and provide decision-makers with essential information, to provide a platform for countries to share lessons and best practices an advocacy toolkit, and a compare tool which allows users to simultaneously compare multiple countries across multiple indicators.
Profits Over People: Mining in Malawi
Human Rights Watch: Malawi, 2016
New mining activities are playing an increasing role in Malawi's economy. This video reports on the situation of families in Malawi affected by new mining activities , and the health problems of families living near coal and uranium mining operations. It reports on the gap in health system capacities to diagnose and address these challenges. While the mining company indicates that they test the water used by these communities and provides the results to government, people in the community are not aware of the results.
Promoting access and medical innovation: Intersections between public health, intellectual property and trade
World Health Organisation, World Intellectual Property Organisation and World Trade Organisation: 2011
This document guides policy makers through complex policy options. It looks at access to medicines, trade and innovation together and the effect they have on each other over time and the challenges in the light of a number of developments over the past decade. In terms of manufacturing and product development, public-private partnerships are increasingly emphasised and partnerships for developing health products are ‘coming of age’. More attention is being paid to strengthening national health systems, with more funding for vaccine development and for immunisation. The relationship between public health, the intellectual property system, innovation and access to medical technologies are now better understood. Discussions on international public policy are better informed, and more soundly evidence based, allowing for more coherence across policies in health, trade and intellectual property.