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.
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The INDEPTH Network has conducted two INDEPTH Health Equity studies. Study Phase 1, which is leading to a monograph, demonstrated that large disparities exist in terms of health outcomes among different socio-economic subgroups among populations in INDEPTH sites that cover small geographically defined populations. These sites include two countries in southern Africa - Tanzania and South Africa. With this evidence, the Network decided to move to the next stage, Study Phase 2, to develop intervention studies or manipulate existing interventions to have a pro-poor focus in order to inform policy. The Network has also developed a tool for measuring socio-economic status, which is available on their website.
Overviews of the virus, the disease, surveillance and control, prevention and treatment. A glossary and extensive list of references are also provided.
The International AIDS Economics Network (IAEN /
http://www.iaen.org) recently polled its members in 130 countries about the best information resources available to AIDS professionals worldwide. The polling returned 85 completed surveys from 32 countries listing over 700 information resources. Approximately half of the returned surveys were from developed countries, half from developing countries.
Source has been designed to meet the information needs of those working in health, disability and development worldwide. It is a collaboration between two international NGOs, Healthlink Worldwide and Handicap International UK and an academic institution, the Centre for International Child Health. It is aimed at health workers, researchers, rehabilitation workers,non-governmental and governmental organisations and disabled peoples' organisations worldwide and has a unique collection of over 20,000 health and disability related information resources. Source opens in September in London.
It may be hard to believe, but the next International AIDS Conference (IAC) is only a little over a year away. The 15th IAC will be held in Bangkok in July 2004. Over the coming weeks, the Intaids eForum is hosting a series of structured discussions on the design, value and impact of the IACs. The discussion will coincide with upcoming planning meetings that will determine the priorities and organisation of the Bangkok conference in 2004. It will hopefully feed into decisions about the IAC2004 format, structure and content, and decisions about prioritisation and resource allocations among the various parts of the conference.
In this online resource Devex has tracked COVID-19 funding for combating the coronavirus, including the contracts, grants, new programs, tenders, and direct funding from global, bilateral, regional, state and non-state actors. Funding data is available through an interactive dashboard that shows where the funding is going, who is supplying the money, and what funding is focusing on.
As part of its effort to encourage research on the economics of HIV/AIDS, IAEN prepares a newsletter featuring updates to this site and news of interest on the topic. The information is gathered from a variety of sources, including online electronic databases. The newsletter is sent approximately once per month, and helps us carry out one of our missions: To provide data, tools, and analysis on the economics of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment for compassionate, cost-effective responses to a global epidemic.
The International Drug Price Indicator Guide contains a spectrum of prices from pharmaceutical suppliers, international development organizations, and government agencies. The Guide aims to make price information more widely available in order to improve procurement of medicines of assured quality for the lowest possible price. Comparative price information is important for getting the best price, and this is an essential reference for anyone involved in the procurement of pharmaceuticals. Management Sciences for Health (MSH) has published the International Drug Price Indicator Guide since 1986 and updates it annually.
Management Sciences for Health (MSH) has published the International Drug Price Indicator Guide since 1986 and updates it annually. The guide contains a spectrum of prices from pharmaceutical suppliers, international development organisations and government agencies. It aims to make price information more widely available in order to improve procurement of medicines of assured quality for the lowest possible price. Comparative price information is important for getting the best price, and this is an essential reference for anyone involved in the procurement of pharmaceuticals. This 2008 version is their latest update and has just been released.