Posted by internationalh on July 2, 2006
Owen has some thoughts on the global fight against malaria. “Here, here!”
There is an interesting question here about incentives within the aid agencies. Our incentives are to make our reputation by developing new ideas, introducing new programs or leading change. There is a much smaller incentive to adopt a good idea that has been proven to work and to take it to scale. Because we have few effective measures of output of individual activities, we have no incentive to be completer-finishers. As a result, we are constantly analyzing and criticizing, having conferences and evaluating. We spend huge sums on very expensive ex-patriate technical assistance – part of that Amir Attaran calls “the foreign aid industrial complex”. Of course it is always important to evaluate progress, and to try to do better with the resources we have got, but sometimes we should just get on and do what we know is effective.
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Posted by internationalh on July 2, 2006
In case you have been living under a rock these past few weeks…Some useful links and one of the health mongers weighs in…
That said, I’d like to stake out a position more nuanced than what might be called hyper-pharmo-scientism and its exact opposite, knee-jerk dismissal of these programs as nothing more than more extension of neoliberalism. In the past year, I’ve run across two thoughtful pieces: Anne-Emmanuelle Birn in The Lancet on the Gates Foundation’s health programs and Doug Henwood in the International Journal of Health Services on Jeffrey Sachs’s recent The End of Poverty.
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Posted by internationalh on July 2, 2006
This certainly sounds too good to be true, but apparently isn’t. The wonders of the the techie world!
…sent an email letting me know about Hesperian Publishers, a nonprofit organization that publishes health care manuals aimed at rural developing communities. The books (available in English, Spanish, and other languages) can be purchased onlinedownloaded free of charge.
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Click here for the publishing company: Hesperian Foundation
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Posted by internationalh on July 2, 2006
Sepia Mutiny’s Neha is yelping with joy over some good news.
Armed with a budget of about $200 million U.S., availiability of free ARV drugs is going to expand from 52 clinics supplying 35, 000 people to a whole 100 clinics
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