Health, Education, Social Protection News & Notes 17/2010

Health, Education, Social Protection
News & Notes 17/2010

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Table of Contents:
BOOKS ................................................................................ 4
A realistic strategy for fighting malaria in Africa ...................................................................... 4
Review of “A realistic strategy for fighting malaria in Africa” by William Jobin........................ 4
The Open Book of Social Innovation....................................................................................... 4
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS .................................................... 5

HIV - AIDS - STI ........................................................................................................... 5
Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV............ 5
The RESPECT study: Evaluating Conditional Cash Transfers for HIV/STI Prevention in
Tanzania.................................................................................................................................. 5
HIV in prisons: Situation and needs assessment toolkit ......................................................... 5
Time to act: a call for comprehensive responses to HIV in people who use drugs ................ 6
Blame and Banishment: The underground HIV epidemic affecting children in Eastern
Europe and Central Asia ......................................................................................................... 6
Progress in Male Circumcision Scale-up: Country Implementation and Research Update.... 6
Quality assurance for male circumcision services training package....................................... 7
Sexual & Reproductive Health ..................................................................................... 7
Promoting Hormonal Implants within a Range of Long-Acting and Permanent Methods: The
Tanzania Experience............................................................................................................... 7
Engaging Men for Gender Equality and Improved Reproductive Health ................................ 7
Contraceptive Use and Intent in Guatemala ........................................................................... 8
Illusions of Care: Lack of Accountability for Reproductive Rights in Argentina ...................... 8
Maternal & Child Health ............................................................................................... 8
WHO Technical consultation on postpartum and postnatal care ............................................ 8
Packages of interventions for family planning, safe abortion care, maternal, newborn and
child health .............................................................................................................................. 9
Malaria.......................................................................................................................... 9
Can malaria be eliminated?..................................................................................................... 9
Ecology: A Prerequisite for Malaria Elimination and Eradication ............................................ 9
Reducing Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Transmission in Africa: A Model-Based
Evaluation of Intervention Strategies .................................................................................... 10
Changes in the burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa ..................................................... 10
Withholding Antimalarials in Febrile Children Who Have a Negative Result for a Rapid
Diagnostic Test...................................................................................................................... 10
Ownership and usage of insecticide-treated bed nets after free distribution via a voucher
system in two provinces of Mozambique .............................................................................. 11
The International Limits and Population at Risk of Plasmodium vivax Transmission in 2009
............................................................................................................................................... 11
Tuberculosis ............................................................................................................... 11
Tuberculosis Management by Private Practitioners in Mumbai, India: Has Anything
Changed in Two Decades?................................................................................................... 11
Other Infectious Diseases .......................................................................................... 12
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Treatment of intestinal schistosomiasis in Ugandan preschool children: best diagnosis,
treatment efficacy and side-effects, and an extended praziquantel dosing pole .................. 12
Essential Medicines.................................................................................................... 12
International Drug Price Indicator Guide ............................................................................... 12
Price Information Exchange (PIE) for selected medicines in the Western Pacific Region of
the World Health Organization .............................................................................................. 13
The pharmaceutical industry and access to essential medicines in Tanzania ..................... 13
Social Protection ........................................................................................................ 13
Protecting Health: Thinking Small ......................................................................................... 13
Human Resources...................................................................................................... 13
Human resource projection tools for maternal and newborn health ..................................... 13
Health workers lost to international bodies in poor countries................................................ 14
Health Systems & Research ...................................................................................... 14
Conducting operational research within a non governmental organization: the example of
Médecins Sans Frontières..................................................................................................... 14
Contracting of primary health care services in Pakistan: Is up-scaling a pragmatic thinking?
............................................................................................................................................... 14
Information & Communication Technology ................................................................ 15
Gender Assessment of ICT Access and Usage in Africa...................................................... 15
From digital divide to digital equity: Learners’ ICT competence in four primary schools in
Cape Town, South Africa ...................................................................................................... 15
Education ................................................................................................................... 15
Global Development Network Education Issues Paper ........................................................ 15
ICT for Education in Nigeria .................................................................................................. 16
Harm Reduction and Drug Use .................................................................................. 16
How Ukraine is tackling Europe’s worst HIV epidemic ......................................................... 16
From coercion to cohesion: Treating drug dependence through health care, not punishment
............................................................................................................................................... 16
Global Health.............................................................................................................. 17
Conference Report: Innovating for the Health of All ............................................................. 17
Innovating for Global Health Equity....................................................................................... 17
A renewed focus on primary health care: revitalize or reframe?........................................... 17
Migration and health: a dynamic challenge for Europe......................................................... 18
Millennium Development Goals.................................................................................. 18
The Millennium Development Goals Report 2010 ................................................................ 18
POSITION PAPER: Millennium Development Goals Review ............................................... 18
Department for International Development: DFID in 2009-10............................................... 19
Celebrate, Innovate and Sustain: Toward 2015 and Beyond ............................................... 19
Development Assistance............................................................................................ 19
Practical approaches to the aid effectiveness agenda: Evidence in aligning aid information
with recipient country budgets............................................................................................... 19
Reviving Dead Aid: Making International Development Assistance Work............................ 20
Beyond Population: Everyone Counts in Development ........................................................ 20
Water and sanitation infrastructure for health: The impact of foreign aid ............................. 20
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: failing minorities and indigenous peoples................... 21
Governance of the aid system and the role of the EU .......................................................... 21
Others......................................................................................................................... 21
Climate change in Kenya: focus on children ......................................................................... 21
Promoting Health: Advocacy Guide for Health Professionals............................................... 22
Health Literacy Action Guide................................................................................................. 22
Violence and Injuries: The Facts........................................................................................... 22
Drinking and Driving .............................................................................................................. 23
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES ............................................ 23

Bulletin of the World Health Organization (BLT) ................................................................... 23
Malaria Nexus - Elsevier’s Global Malaria Resource............................................................ 23
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES............................................ 23
Online Distance Learning Course: Gender, rights and health .............................................. 23

CONFERENCES................................................................ 24
3rd HIV and AIDS in the Workplace Research Conference.................................................. 24
CARTOON ......................................................................... 24
TIPS & TRICKS ................................................................. 25

View Files in Your Internet Browser ...................................................................................... 25
What is Inside Your System? ................................................................................................ 25
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BOOKS
A realistic strategy for fighting malaria in Africa
by William Jobin
Blue Nile Monographs, 2010 - Price: US$ 38.00

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This monograph reviews successful malaria control operations in the US, Europe and
Indonesia, and then goes on to analyze the reasons for failures in attempts to control
malaria in Africa. Based on a comparative analysis of these historical efforts, a realistic
and sustainable strategy is proposed, to supplement the current unsustainable strate-
gies of WHO and the US.
***
Review of “A realistic strategy for fighting malaria in Africa” by William Jo-

bin
by Bart GJ Knols
Parasites & Vectors 2010, 3:68 (9 August 2010)
4 pp. 94 kB:
http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/pdf/1756-3305-3-68.pdf
The latest World Malaria Report (2009) brought much good news in terms of the global
progress in malaria control. Optimism reigns to such extent that the words ‘elimination’
and ‘eradication’ are now liberally used within the global malaria community. Jobin’s
book, however, serves as a contrasting wake-up call, and tries to shed light on what he
claims to be ‘the mess we are currently making in Africa’. With a wealth of experience,
built up over 45 years of involvement in operational malaria control campaigns, Jobin
provides a frank and thought-provoking opinion of the current attempts to control the
disease, and is (negatively) outspoken about the roles therein of major players like the
PMI, WHO, and USAID, all of whom Jobin worked for during some stage of his career.
***
The Open Book of Social Innovation
by Robin Murray, Julie Caulier-Grice and Geoff Mulgan

National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts and the Young
Foundation, March 2010
224 pp. 5.5 MB:

http://www.youngfoundation.org/files/images/Open_Book_of_Socia
l_Innovation.pdf
This book is about the many ways in which people are creating new and more effective
answers to the biggest challenges of our times: how to cut our carbon footprint; how to
keep people healthy; how to end poverty. It describes the methods and tools for innova-
tion being used across the world and across the different sectors - the public and private
sectors, civil society and the household - and in the overlapping fields of the social

economy, social entrepreneurship and social enterprise. It draws on inputs from hun-
dreds of organisations around the world to document the many methods currently being
used.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
HIV - AIDS - STI
Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality
and HIV
by Jantine Jacobi, Matthew Cogan, Kreena Govender et al.

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 2010
34 pp. 799 kB:

http://www.unfpa.org/webdav/site/global/shared/documents/publica
tions/2010/agenda_for_accelerated_country_action_en.pdf
This framework addresses the rights and needs of women and girls and highlights op-
portunities to work with networks of women living with HIV and diverse women’s groups,
while engaging men and boys, in particular those working for gender equality.
***
The RESPECT study: Evaluating Conditional Cash Transfers for HIV/STI

Prevention in Tanzania
by Damien de Walque, William H Dow, Rose Nathan et al.

Ifakara Health Institute and World Bank Development Economics Research Group, July
2010
4 pp. 25 kB:
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/DEC/Resources/HIVExeSummary(Tanzania).pdf
The RESPECT (“Rewarding STI Prevention and Control in Tanzania”) study is a ran-
domized controlled trial testing the hypothesis that a system of rapid feedback and posi-
tive reinforcement using cash as the primary incentive can be used to reduce risky sex-
ual activity among young people, male and female, who are at high risk of HIV infection.
Results indicate that financial incentives - conditional cash transfers paid if the study
participants remained negative for a set of curable sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
– could be an effective prevention tool for STIs and possibly HIV.
***
HIV in prisons: Situation and needs assessment toolkit
by Caren Weilandt, Robert Greifinger, Paul Williams et al.

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, July 2010
92 pp. 3.5 MB:

http://www.unodc.org/documents/hiv-
aids/publications/HIV_in_prisons_situation_and_needs_assessment_document.pdf
This toolkit aims to provide information and guidance, primarily, to national govern-

ments. It is written with low and middle-income countries in mind, but it will also be a
useful resource for high-income countries. Its focus is on HIV, but it recognizes that
other diseases linked to HIV, in particular hepatitis and tuberculosis, also represent seri-
ous problems in prisons. It is based on the requirements of international law and stan-
dards and ethics, scientific evidence and best practice experience.
***
Time to act: a call for comprehensive responses to HIV in people who use
drugs
by Chris Beyrer, Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Adeeba Kamarulzaman et al.

The Lancet, Vol. 376, Issue 9740, pp. 551-563, 14 August 2010
13 pp. 647 kB:

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673610609282.pdf?i
d=3d35b1b5aa0ec416:7c5d929b:12a6bbada1f:2f331281711918082
The published work on HIV in people who use drugs shows that the global burden of
HIV infection in this group can be reduced. Concerted action by governments, multilat-
eral organisations, health systems, and individuals could lead to enormous benefits for
families, communities, and societies. The authors review the evidence and identify syn-
ergies between biomedical science, public health, and human rights.
***
Blame and Banishment: The underground HIV epidemic affecting children

in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
by Nina Ferencic, Ruslan Malyuta, Paul Nary et al.

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Regional Office for Central &
Eastern Europe & Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS),
2010
68 pp. 5.0 MB:

http://www.unicef.org/media/files/UNICEF_Blame_and_Banishment.pdf
An underground HIV epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central Asia is intensifying at an

alarming pace. The report highlights the issues faced by children living with HIV, ado-
lescents engaged in risky behaviors, pregnant women using drugs, and the more than
one million children and young people who live or work on the streets of the region. To
reach and help young people living with HIV or at risk of HIV infection, medical and civil
authorities need to establish non-judgmental, friendly services that address the special
needs of marginalized adolescents.
***
Progress in Male Circumcision Scale-up: Country Implementation and Re-

search Update
World Health Organization and Joint United Programme on HIV/AIDS,

June 2010
31 pp. 1.2 MB:

http://www.malecircumcision.org/documents/MC_country_June2010.pdf
In 2007, WHO/UNAIDS recommended that male circumcision be included in the HIV

prevention package. Thirteen Southern and Eastern African countries with high HIV
prevalence, low levels of male circumcision and generalized heterosexual epidemics
have been identified as priority countries for male circumcision scale-up. These coun-
tries have been engaged in developing programmes for male circumcision implementa-
tion and are at various stages of programme scale-up. This report provides an overview
of progress in male circumcision programme scale-up in all thirteen priority countries
according to the key elements.
***
Quality assurance for male circumcision services training package
Clearinghouse on Male Circumcision for HIV Preven-

tion, 2010:
http://www.malecircumcision.org/training/male_circum
cision_training.html
This training package provides programme and facility

managers with guidance and materials to assist them in conducting workshops on qual-
ity assurance and to strengthen their capacity to facilitate the implementation of safe,
high-quality services in male circumcision for HIV prevention. The package should be
used with the quality assurance guidance entitled “Male Circumcision Quality Assur-
ance: A Guide to Enhancing the Safety and Quality of Services” and the “Male Circum-
cision Quality Assessment Toolkit”.
Sexual & Reproductive Health
Promoting Hormonal Implants within a Range of Long-Acting and Perma-

nent Methods: The Tanzania Experience
by Cindi Cisek, Feddy Mwanga and Joseph Kanama

EngenderHealth / The RESPOND Project, May 2010
8 pp. 3.8 MB:

http://www.respond-project.org/pages/files/6_pubs/project_briefs/Project-
Brief-1-Implants-Tanzania-final-June2010.pdf
Hormonal implants are proving to be increasingly popular among Tanzanian women,

according to national-level service statistics at public-sector health facilities. The rea-
sons for this popularity include the hormonal implant’s convenience, ease of insertion,
and long-lasting effectiveness. Another factor contributing to the implant’s success is
that the method is being provided in Tanzania primarily by nurses (in addition to doc-
tors), which means that it can be offered at health centers and dispensaries.
***
Engaging Men for Gender Equality and Improved Reproductive Health
by Karin Ringheim and Charlotte Feldman-Jacobs of Population Reference Bureau

(PRB), July 2010
6 pp. 532 kB:

http://www.igwg.org/igwg_media/engag-men-gendr-equal.pdf
The importance of constructive men’s engagement in reproductive health has taken

hold around the world over the past decade. Skeptics are being won over by the pre-

ponderance of evidence: Unless men are actively engaged in supporting better health
and well-being for families and the empowerment of women, progress will remain slow;
women will remain vulnerable to reproductive health threats, including gender-based
violence; and men themselves will remain trapped in the confining space of traditional
masculine norms.
***
Contraceptive Use and Intent in Guatemala
by Kathryn Grace
Demographic Research Vol. 23, Article 12, pp. 335-364 (10 August 2010)
32 pp. 1.0 MB:

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol23/12/23-12.pdf
Guatemala is characterized by low contraceptive use rates and one of the highest fertil-
ity rates in the Western Hemisphere. These rates are particularly extreme for the poor-
est segment of the population and for the indigenous population. The purpose of this re-
search is to enhance understanding of the modern contraceptive revolution in Guate-
mala through identification of the segments of the Guatemalan population at most need
for contraceptive and family planning services.
***
Illusions of Care: Lack of Accountability for Reproductive Rights in Argen-

tina
by Marianne Møllmann and María Azcue

Human Rights Watch, 2010
52 pp. 432 kB:

http://zunia.org/uploads/media/knowledge/argentina0810webwcov
er1281528071.pdf
This report documents the many obstacles women and girls face in getting the repro-
ductive health care services to which they are entitled, such as contraception, voluntary
sterilization procedures, and abortion after rape. The most common barriers to care in-
clude long delays in providing services, unnecessary referrals to other clinics, demands
for spousal permission contrary to law, financial barriers, and in some cases outright
denial of care.
Maternal & Child Health
WHO Technical consultation on postpartum and postnatal care
World Health Organization (WHO), Dept. of Making Pregnancy Safer,

2010
65 pp. 550 kB:

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2010/WHO_MPS_10.03_eng.pdf
The period soon after childbirth poses substantial health risks for both mother and new-
born infant. Yet the postpartum and postnatal period receives less attention from health
care providers than pregnancy and childbirth. WHO is in the process of revising and up-

dating its guidance on postpartum and postnatal care delivered by skilled providers. The
purposes of revision are to encourage and support broader provision of care and to fos-
ter a new, woman-centred concept of care that promotes health as well as maintains
vigilance against dangerous complications.
***
Packages of interventions for family planning, safe abortion care, maternal,

newborn and child health
Authors: UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO, World Bank, 2010
20 pp. 391 kB:

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2010/WHO_FCH_10.06_eng.pdf
Maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality are major public health concerns in most
developing countries and in under resourced settings. This document describes the key
effective interventions organized in packages across the continuum of care through pre-
pregnancy, pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, newborn care and care of the child. The
packages are defined for community and/or facility levels in developing countries and
provide guidance on the essential components needed to assure adequacy and quality
of care.
Malaria
Can malaria be eliminated?
by Brian Greenwood
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
(2009) 103S, S2-S5
4 pp. 426 kB:

http://groups.google.com/group/health-education-social-
protection-news-notes/web/can-malaria-be-eliminated.pdf
Since the perceived failure of the Global Programme for Malaria Eradication in 1969, the
eradication of malaria has not been considered a feasible goal. The consensus is that
eradication of malaria, although theoretically possible, is not likely to be feasible within
the medium term using existing control tools. However, malaria elimination (cessation of
local transmission) is a realistic short- to medium-term goal for an increasing number of
countries that are already bringing malaria under control.
***
Ecology: A Prerequisite for Malaria Elimination and Eradication
by Heather M. Ferguson, Anna Dornhaus, Arlyne Beeche et al.

PLoS Med 7(8): e1000303 (3 August 2010)
7 pp. 236 kB:

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/fetchObjectAttachment.action;jsessionid=27D0696142448B7621F8B0
5EAB0E3C58.ambra02?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000303&representation=PDF
Existing front-line vector control measures, such as insecticide-treated nets and residual
sprays, cannot break the transmission cycle of Plasmodium falciparum in the most in-

tensely endemic parts of Africa and the Pacific. The goal of malaria eradication will re-
quire urgent strategic investment into understanding the ecology and evolution of the
mosquito vectors that transmit malaria. Global commitment to malaria eradication ne-
cessitates a corresponding long-term commitment to vector ecology.
***
Reducing Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Transmission in Africa: A Model-

Based Evaluation of Intervention Strategies
by Jamie T. Griffin, T. Deirdre Hollingsworth, Lucy C. Okell et al.

PLoS Med 7(8): e1000324 (10 August 2010)
17 pp. 987 kB:

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/fetchObjectAttachment.action;jsessionid=2AD8035102225A73E
9A787E1B8402257.ambra02?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000324&representation=PDF
Over the past decade malaria intervention coverage has been scaled up across Africa.
However, it remains unclear what overall reduction in transmission is achievable using
currently available tools. The authors conclude that interventions using current tools can
result in reduction to the 1% parasite prevalence threshold in low- to moderate-
transmission settings. In high-transmission settings and those in which vectors are
mainly exophilic (outdoor-resting), additional new tools that target exophagic (outdoor-
biting), exophilic, and partly zoophagic mosquitoes will be required.
***
Changes in the burden of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa
by Wendy Prudhomme O'Meara, Judith Nekesa Mangeni, Rick Steketee

et al.
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Vol. 10, Issue 8, pp. 545-555, August
2010
11 pp. 371 kB:

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/laninf/PIIS1473309910700967.pdf?id
=3d35b1b5aa0ec416:7c5d929b:12a47d6953c:21431281110740260
The burden of malaria in countries in sub-Saharan Africa has declined with scaling up of
prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. To assess the contribution of specific malaria in-
terventions and other general factors in bringing about these changes, the authors re-
viewed studies that have reported recent changes in the incidence or prevalence of ma-
laria in sub-Saharan Africa.
***
Withholding Antimalarials in Febrile Children Who Have a Negative Result

for a Rapid Diagnostic Test
by Valérie d’Acremont, Aggrey Malila, Ndeniria Swai et al.

Clinical Infectious Diseases 2010; 51(5):506-511 (1 September 2010)
6 pp. 307 kB:

http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/655688
Presumptive treatment for malaria is widely used, especially in children. Withholding an-
timalarials in febrile children who had negative results for a rapid diagnostic test for ma-

laria was safe, even in an area highly endemic for malaria. This study provides evidence
for treatment recommendations based on parasitological diagnosis in children <5 years
old.
***
Ownership and usage of insecticide-treated bed nets after free distribution

via a voucher system in two provinces of Mozambique
Alexandre Macedo de Oliveira, Adam Wolkon, Ramesh Krishnamurthy et al.

Malaria Journal 2010, 9:222 (4 August 2010)
28 pp. 284 kB:

http://www.malariajournal.com/content/pdf/1475-2875-9-222.pdf
During a national immunization campaign in Mozambique, vouchers for free insecticide-

treated bed nets (ITNs) were distributed in Manica and Sofala provinces. A survey to
evaluate ITN ownership and usage post-campaign was conducted. The authors con-
clude that ITN distribution increased bed net ownership and usage rates. Integration of
ITN distribution with immunization campaigns presents an opportunity for reaching ma-
laria control targets and should continue to be considered.
***
The International Limits and Population at Risk of Plasmodium vivax

Transmission in 2009
by Carlos A. Guerra, Rosalind E. Howes, Anand P. Patil et al.

PLoS Negl Trop Dis 4(8): e774 (3 August 2010)
11 pp. 1.6 MB:

http://www.plosntds.org/article/fetchObjectAttachment.action;jsessionid=8C1CFACFC30769FC4D4
6BB71D9D1E06C.ambra01?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0000774&representation=PDF
A research priority for Plasmodium vivax malaria is to improve our understanding of the
spatial distribution of risk and its relationship with the burden of P. vivax disease in hu-
man populations. The aim of the research outlined in this article is to provide a contem-
porary evidence-based map of the global spatial extent of P. vivax malaria, together with
estimates of the human population at risk (PAR) of any level of transmission in 2009.
The final map provides the spatial limits on which the endemicity of P. vivax transmis-
sion can be mapped to support future cartographic-based burden estimations.
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis Management by Private Practitioners in Mumbai, India: Has

Anything Changed in Two Decades?
by Zarir F. Udwadia, Lancelot M. Pinto, Mukund W. Uplekar

PLoS ONE 5(8): e12023 (9 August 2010)
5 pp. 79 kB:
http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObjectAttachment.action;jsessionid=A7FAF10DD5F5F673CB2B
0581279F2DAF.ambra02?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0012023&representation=PDF
With a vast majority of private practitioners unable to provide a correct prescription for
treating TB and not approached by the national TB programme, little seems to have

changed over the years. Strategies to control TB through public sector health services
will have little impact if inappropriate management of TB patients in private clinics con-
tinues unabated. Large scale implementation of public-private mix approaches should
be a top priority for the programme. Ignoring the private sector could worsen the epi-
demic of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant forms of TB.
Other Infectious Diseases
Treatment of intestinal schistosomiasis in Ugandan preschool children:

best diagnosis, treatment efficacy and side-effects, and an extended
praziquantel dosing pole
by José Carlos Sousa-Figueiredo, Joyce Pleasant, Matthew Day

International Health, Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2010, Pages 103-113
11 pp. 752 kB:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B985R-5022H16-1-
9&_cdi=59105&_user=10&_pii=S1876341310000197&_orig=browse&_coverDate=06%2
F30%2F2010&_sk=999979997&view=c&wchp=dGLbVzz-
zSkWb&md5=64c29328605128fdc741fe3fe6e1c416&ie=/sdarticle.pdf
The Ugandan national control programme for schistosomiasis has no clear policy for in-
clusion of preschool-children (≤5 years old) children. To re-balance this health inequal-
ity, the authors sought to identify best diagnosis of intestinal schistosomiasis, observe
treatment safety and efficacy of praziquantel, and extend the current WHO dose pole for
chemotherapy. They conclude that preschool children in lakeshore communities of
Uganda are at significant risk of intestinal schistosomiasis and strongly advocate for
their immediate inclusion within the national control programme to eliminate this health
inequity.
Essential Medicines
International Drug Price Indicator Guide

2009 Edition
Editors Julie E. Frye and Keith Johnson

Management Sciences for Health, August 2010
323 pp. 1.2 MB:

http://erc.msh.org/dmpguide/pdf/DrugPriceGuide_2009_en.pdf
The Guide provides a spectrum of prices from 25 sources, including pharmaceutical

suppliers, international development organizations, and government agencies. The
Guide assists supply officers to determine the probable cost of pharmaceutical products
for their programs, allows users to compare current prices paid to prices available on the
international market or assess the potential financial impact of changes to a medicines
list, and helps to support rational medicine use education.
***

Price Information Exchange (PIE) for selected medicines in the Western
Pacific Region of the World Health Organization
http://www.piemeds.com/
The Price Information Exchange website contains procurement

prices in the public sector for selected medicines that participating
countries in the Western Pacific Region have shared voluntarily. The information was
collected and processed by the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office in collaboration
with the University of Philippines Manila - National Telehealth Center. PIEMEDS allows
you after a simple registration to see the prices of essential medicines in Pacific states
in a transparent bar diagram.
***
The pharmaceutical industry and access to essential medicines in Tanza-

nia
by Robert M. Mhamba and Shukrani Mbirigenda

Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET), July 2010
25 pp. 308 kB:

http://www.equinetafrica.org/bibl/docs/DIS83TZN%20medicines%20mhamba.pdf
This paper outlines the flows of private capital that lie behind the growth of the for-profit
pharmaceutical sector in Tanzania. The paper analyses the policy, access and equity
challenges posed by the shift to increasing private sector participation in medicine provi-
sion. The Tanzanian drug policy highlights the government’s intention to ensure that
quality, effective essential medicines reach all Tanzanians at an affordable price. How-
ever, the reality reflected by the document’s findings seems different.
Social Protection
Protecting Health: Thinking Small
by Sidhartha R Sinha & Rajaie Batniji

Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Published online: 3 June 2010)
7 pp. 37 kB:
http://www.microfinancegateway.org/gm/document-
1.9.45803/protecting%20health%20thinking%20small.pdf
Microfinance has been successfully deployed to compensate for the lack of traditional
financing opportunities in developing countries. It can also be used to help finance
health care for excluded populations. Looking at its success in providing conventional fi-
nancing for poor communities, why can't microfinance be used as a tool for health fi-
nancing and also health education and prevention?
Human Resources
Human resource projection tools for maternal and newborn health
http://pieleric.free.fr/padi/index-hrs.html

The Department of Making Pregnancy Safer, WHO, is in the process of
developing a tool for calculating sub-national or sub-regional or provincial
or district or any population based human resource for maternal and new-
born health requirements. The tool represents 79 countries. First chose
your country. While you are in bars or lines in each year draw your arrow
to the point and you will see the projected numbers in addition to visual projections of
bars and lines.
***
Health workers lost to international bodies in poor countries
by David Southall, Mamady Cham, Omar Sey

The Lancet, Vol. 376, Issue 9740, pp. 498-499, 14 August 2010
2 pp. 378 kB:

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673610611579.pdf?i
d=4d037fefcb72946c:-46edeb18:12a6ad8d5fe:3f4f1281697808078
The authors draw attention to a further drain on the meagre numbers of doctors and
nurses in most disadvantaged countries. Some international organisations, research in-
stitutions, and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) engaged in aiming to promote
health and relieve suffering might, in one aspect of their approach, be having the oppo-
site effect. By offering better salaries and working conditions, such international organi-
sations prevent government-trained doctors and nurses from contributing to their Na-
tional Health Service.
Health Systems & Research
Conducting operational research within a non governmental organization:

the example of Médecins Sans Frontières
by R. Zachariah, N. Ford, B. Draguez, O. Yun and T. Reid

International Health, Volume 2, Issue 1, March 2010, Pages 1-8
8 pp. 276 kB:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B985R-4Y64DP0-4-
5&_cdi=59105&_user=10&_pii=S1876341309000710&_orig=browse&_coverDate=03%2
F31%2F2010&_sk=999979998&view=c&wchp=dGLbVzz-
zSkWb&md5=bb74f20128d949a7224218d0b0a105e7&ie=/sdarticle.pdf
This article discusses the potential role operational research can play within medical
NGOs such as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and highlights the relevance of opera-
tional research, the essential elements of developing it within the organisation and some
of the perceived barriers and solutions.
***
Contracting of primary health care services in Pakistan: Is up-scaling a

pragmatic thinking?
by Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Fauziah Rabbani, Najibullah

Safi, Zia Dawar
J Pak Med Assoc Vol. 60, No. 5, May 2010

3 pp. 44 kB:
http://www.jpma.org.pk/PdfDownload/2052.pdf
Quite often, public health care systems in developing countries are struggling because
of incompetence and a lack of provider responsiveness to the needs of consumers. In
recent years, contracting has been experimented as an approach to ensure delivery of
comprehensive public health services in an efficient, effective, superior and fair manner
and has generally thrived well. Partnering with the private sector has shown some ex-
ceptional accomplishments. The overall experience shows that up-scaling of such initia-
tives in the country would require lot of cautions to be taken by the government.
Information & Communication Technology
Gender Assessment of ICT Access and Usage in Africa
by Alison Gillwald, Anne Milek & Christoph Stork

Research ICT Africa, May 2010
44 pp. 1.3 MB:

http://www.researchictafrica.net/new/images/uploads/Gender_Pap
er_May_2010.pdf
This analysis explores the inequities of access and usage by viewing them through a
gender lens. Of the limited demand-side data on Africa that exists, very little is disag-
gregated on gender lines. This study provides a descriptive statistical overview of ac-
cess to ICTs by women and men and their usage of them. This is supported by focus
groups that were undertaken in five of the 17 countries surveyed in East, Central, South
and West Africa.
***
From digital divide to digital equity: Learners’ ICT competence in four pri-
mary schools in Cape Town, South Africa
by Greta Björk Gudmundsdottir

International Journal of Education and Development using ICT, Vol. 6, No. 2 (2010)
22 pp. 460 kB:

http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/include/getdoc.php?id=4082&article=989&mode=pdf
Despite substantial efforts by educational authorities to increase ICT access for learners
and teachers in public schools in Cape Town, when learners’ ICT competence is com-
pared, digital equity has not been reached. In order to increase digital equity and de-
crease the digital divide, a renewed policy focus is needed which puts greater emphasis
on addressing the severe inequalities of the learners within their school environment as
well as outside of school, taking their home situation into consideration to a greater ex-
tent.
Education
Global Development Network Education Issues Paper
by Rekha Balu, Harry Patrinos, Emiliana Vegas

Global Development Network (GDN), September 2009

47 pp. 941 kB:
http://depot.gdnet.org/newkb/submissions/Education_10.pdf
In just 60 years, universal access to primary education has matured into a

primary political and economic goal. This paper reviews governance and
institutional challenges facing educational systems in developing coun-
tries. In middle-income and poor countries alike, educational opportunities
elude many children, especially those from poor and disadvantaged children, in large
part due to economic, social and institutional reasons.
***
ICT for Education in Nigeria
by Osei Tutu Agyeman

Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Nigeria Country Report, June 2007
12 pp. 77 kB:
http://zunia.org/uploads/media/knowledge/Nigeria - ICTed Survey1281417594.pdf
The Federal Republic of Nigeria had no specific policy for ICT in education. The Ministry
of Education created its ICT department in February 2007, notwithstanding several gov-
ernment agencies and other stakeholders in the private sector having initiated ICT-
driven projects and programmes to impact all levels of the educational sector. The pub-
lication provides a general overview of activities and issues related to ICT use in educa-
tion in Nigeria.
Harm Reduction and Drug Use
How Ukraine is tackling Europe’s worst HIV epidemic
by Richard Hurley
BMJ 2010;341:c3538 (13 July 2010)
3 pp. 319 kB:

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/section_pdf/341/jul13_4/c3538.pdf
Despite entrenched corruption and police interference, community organisations lead

the fight against HIV among drug injectors and sex workers. Substitution maintenance
therapy is proved to reduce risk of HIV infection in drug users. Although about 5,550 pa-
tients legally receive the treatment in Ukraine, it remains controversial, largely as a re-
sult of the influence of narcology, a subspecialty of Soviet psychiatry that considers that
drug dependence must be solved through abstinence. In Russia methadone and bupre-
norphine remain illegal.
***
From coercion to cohesion: Treating drug dependence through health

care, not punishment
Discussion paper based on a scientific workshop UNODC, Vienna October 28-30, 2009
by Gilberto Gerra and Nicolas Clark

UNODC, Drug Prevention and Health Branch, 2010

22 pp. 351 kB:
http://www.unodc.org/documents/hiv-aids/publications/Coercion_Ebook.pdf
The aim of this draft discussion paper is to promote a health-oriented ap-

proach to drug dependence. Treatment offered as alternative to criminal
justice sanctions has to be evidence-based and in line with ethical stan-
dards. This paper outlines a model of referral from the criminal justice sys-
tem to the treatment system that is more effective than compulsory treat-
ment, which results in less restriction of liberty, is less stigmatising and of-
fers better prospects for the future of the individual and the society.
Global Health
Conference Report: Innovating for the Health of All
Global Forum for Health Research

16 - 20 November 2009
Havana, Cuba
33 pp. 2.8 MB:

http://meeting.tropika.net/cuba2009/files/2010/06/gf_forum2009_report.pdf
The health of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) features much higher on the
global agenda than ever before. Governments, aid agencies and philanthropic organiza-
tions continue to pour billions into tackling the health problems of these least developed
nations. Yet money is not enough. Lavishing resources on weakened health systems, or
supplying cheap drugs to areas where there is virtually no distribution network to get
those medicines to patients is pointless. It is time to improve global health care from the
inside out. This means building better health-care systems and developing better treat-
ments for neglected diseases. This means innovation.
***
Innovating for Global Health Equity
MEDICC Review Vol. 12, No 3, July 2010
http://www.medicc.org/mediccreview/
To access the articles free registration is required
The topics on this MECCIC Issue include: an overview of the Global Forum for Health
Research, Forum 2009, overcoming obstacles to better research on the social determi-
nants of health, developing a public health research agenda, moving beyond Open Ac-
cess towards open data, plus exploration of South-South collaboration in health bio-
technology.
***
A renewed focus on primary health care: revitalize or reframe?
by Mrigesh Bhatia and Susan Rifkin

Globalization and Health 2010, 6:13 (30 July 2010)
17 pp. 102 kB:

http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/pdf/1744-8603-6-13.pdf

The year 2008 celebrated 30 years of Primary Health Care (PHC) policy emerging from
the Alma Ata Declaration with publication of two key reports, the World Health Report
2008 and the Report of the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. Both re-
ports reaffirmed the relevance of PHC in terms of its vision and values in today’s world.
However, important challenges in terms of defining PHC, equity and empowerment
need to be addressed. This article takes the form of a commentary reviewing develop-
ments in the last 30 years and discusses the future of this policy.
***
Migration and health: a dynamic challenge for Europe
Eurohealth - Volume 16, Number 1, 2010

LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science
48 pp. 973 kB:

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/LSEHealthAndSocialCare/LSEHealth/pdf/e
urohealth/VOL16No1/vol16no1.pdf
Only a minority of countries in the EU provide the same access to health care services
for migrants as for the resident population. Regardless of their legal status, migrants can
be at particular risk of poor physical and mental health; they may be isolated after arrival
in their host country or be unaware of any entitlement to use publicly funded health care
services. Even where available, services may not be suitable to the needs of many mi-
grant groups.
Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals Report 2010
Published by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Af-

fairs, (DESA), June 2010
80 pp. 6.3 MB:

http://www.unfpa.org/webdav/site/global/shared/documents/public
ations/2010/mdg_report_2010.pdf
The report shows that some hard-won gains are being eroded by the climate, food and
economic crises. But even though the economic crisis took a heavy toll on jobs and in-
comes around the world, the world is still on track to achieve the MDG target of cutting
the rate of extreme poverty in half by 2015, the report notes.
***
POSITION PAPER: Millennium Development Goals Review
Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), August 2010
8 pp. 182 kB:

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900sid/NROI-
8837RJ/$file/ACFID_MDG%20Review_2010.pdf?openelement
Ahead of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Review Summit in

New York on 20-22 September 2010, the Australian Council for International Develop-

ment (ACFID) calls for a greater focus on equity and accountability by donors and de-
veloping country governments to ensure aid and development assistance make meas-
urable differences in improving the lives of the poor.
***
Department for International Development: DFID in 2009-10
Published by TSO (The Stationery Office), 22 July 2010
125 pp. 5.4 MB:

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900sid/SNAA-
88395S/$file/dfid-in-2009-10.pdf?openelement
The Department for International Development (DFID) leads the UK government’s effort
to promote international development. DFID’s overall aim is to reduce poverty in poorer
countries, in particular through achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
This Report provides a summary of the recent contribution of DFID to delivering the Mil-
lennium Development Goals. While the last decade has seen real global progress in de-
livering the MDGs the scale of the challenge to meet the 2015 targets is enormous.
***
Celebrate, Innovate and Sustain: Toward 2015 and Beyond
The United States’ Strategy for Meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals, July
2010
28 pp. 215 kB:

http://www.globalproblems-globalsolutions-files.org/pdf/2010/US_MDG_Strategy.pdf
Obama Administration officials unveiled the U.S. Government’s strategy for advancing
the Millennium Development Goals on July 30, 2010, with an emphasis on innovative
and sustainable approaches to the world’s most urgent challenges, during a high-level
working session hosted by the United Nations Foundation. The meeting sent a strong
signal that effective partnerships between governments, the private sector, and NGOs
are one of the most important ways to mobilize global action to eradicate poverty and
disease.
Development Assistance
Practical approaches to the aid effectiveness agenda: Evidence in aligning

aid information with recipient country budgets
by Samuel Moon and Zachary Mills

Overseas Development Institute (ODI), July 2010
50 pp. 652 kB:

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900sid/EGUA-
87XQN6/$file/odi-wp317-jul2010.pdf?openelement
The Paris Declaration and the Accra Agenda for Action emphasise the importance of
aligning aid with recipient government priorities and delivering aid through government
systems. However, since a significant amount of aid is not delivered through national

budgets, the issue of aligning these resources to government systems remains a major
challenge. A fundamental concern is the ability to relate aid resources to the expendi-
ture patterns of recipient governments. Too often, that link is not made.
***
Reviving Dead Aid: Making International Development Assistance Work
by Joel Negin
Lowy Institute for International Policy, August 2010
Download as Adobe PDF file (32 pp. 661 kB) from:

http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=1355
Australia’s aid program has been in the news lately, with calls for a wider public debate
on the role of overseas aid. But public debate is being shaped by starkly contradictory
arguments. An educated layperson who has just finished reading Jeffrey Sachs on The
End of Poverty, for example, might think that aid can provide an important solution to the
world’s problems. One who has just completed William Easterly’s The White Man's Bur-
den or Dambisa Moyo’s Dead Aid, on the other hand, is likely to have quite different
views on the utility of their country’s aid program.
***
Beyond Population: Everyone Counts in Development
by Joel E. Cohen
Center for Global Development, July 2010
42 pp. 889 kB:

http://www.cgdev.org/files/1424318_file_Cohen_BeyondPopulation_FINAL.pdf
This essay reviews some of the most important demographic trends ex-
pected to occur between 2010 and 2050, indicates some of their implications for eco-
nomic and global development, and suggests some possible policies to respond these
trends and implications. The interactions of population, economics, the environment,
and culture are central.
***
Water and sanitation infrastructure for health: The impact of foreign aid
by Marianne J Botting, Edoye O Porbeni, Michel R Joffres et al.

Globalization and Health 2010, 6:12 (29 July 2010)
24 pp. 131 kB:

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900sid/RMOI-87U25E/$file/bmo-watsan-
infrastructure-for-health-jul2010.pdf?openelement
The accessibility to improved water and sanitation has been understood as a crucial
mechanism to save infants and children from the adverse health outcomes associated
with diarrheal disease. This knowledge stimulated the worldwide donor community to
develop a specific category of aid aimed at the water and sanitation sector. The actual
impact of this assistance on increasing population access to improved water and sanita-
tion and reducing child mortality has not been examined.
***

Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers: failing minorities and indigenous peo-
ples
by Samia Liaquat Ali Khan

Minority Rights Group International, 2010
44 pp. 1.1 MB:

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900sid/ASAZ-
87YGB4/$file/MRG_Aug2010.pdf?openelement
This report presents not only an overview of how Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
(PRSPs) have become the focus of international development thinking, but also how the
lack of critical analysis and evaluation of PRSPs in terms of their ability to move com-
munities out of poverty has meant that it is business as usual for a number of interest
groups. The report also provides some recommendations as to how the current PRSP
model and practice needs to be improved if it is truly to become an engine for positive
change on the ground.
***
Governance of the aid system and the role of the EU
by Owen Barder, Mikaela Gavas, Simon Maxwell and Deborah Johnson
Conference on Development Cooperation in Times of Crisis and on

Achieving the MDGs
IFEMA Convention Centre (Madrid), 9-10 June 2010
42 pp. 572 kB:

http://www.owen.org/wp-content/uploads/Governance-of-the-aid-system.pdf
Within the world of official aid, two views currently dominate the debate. The first cele-
brates diversity and concentrates on the coordination of collaborative networks. It fo-
cuses attention on shared goals, harmonisation of approaches, and better coordination
of who does what. The second view seeks reform of the aid ‘architecture’ in order to re-
duce the number of actors and rationalise the supply of aid. It focuses on the allocation
of aid between institutions, transactions costs, multilateral effectiveness, and issues like
governance reform of the Bretton Woods Institutions. Its ideal is captured in the phrase
‘don’t just harmonise, multilateralise’.
Others
Climate change in Kenya: focus on children
by Nigel Thornton
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 2010
31 pp. 6.0 MB:

http://www.preventionweb.net/files/14935_climatechangekenya20
10web1.pdf
This case study provides examples of the type of support that may be needed to pre-
vent or reduce future impacts of climate change. It asserts that by involving children in
climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction programmes, there is potential for im-

proved outcomes. Equipping the next generations with the skills and knowledge to thrive
in a changing climate is becoming increasingly important.
***
Promoting Health: Advocacy Guide for Health Professionals

Part 1: “The Basics”
Edited by Carinne Allinson and Franklin Apfel

World Health Communication Associates (WHCA), March 2010
92 pp. 1.1 MB:

http://www.whcaonline.org/uploads/publications/ICN-NEW-28.3.2010.pdf
The World Health Communication Associates (WHCA) Action Guide on Health Literacy
introduces a new interactive action framework for strengthening individual and societal
health literacy. Health literacy is defined as “the capacity to obtain, interpret and under-
stand basic health information and services and the competence to use such informa-
tion and services to enhance health.” The guide’s primary aim is to be a “how to” man-
ual. To this end it presents case study examples of practical interventions that people
and agencies in a wide variety of settings are taking (and can take) to enhance their
own and other’s health literacy.
***
Health Literacy Action Guide

Part 2: “Evidence and Case Studies”
by Franklin Apfel, Kara L Jacobson, Ruth M Parker et al.

World Health Communication Associates (WHCA), March 2010
132 pp. 1.4 MB:

http://www.whcaonline.org/uploads/publications/WHCAhealthLiteracy-28.3.2010.pdf
The Guide is presented as a practical resource for use by local, national and interna-
tional health, education and development advocates and agencies that are working on
and/or planning to take action to enhance people’s health literacy. It builds on Part 1,
“The Basics”, and includes a more detailed review of evidence and, importantly, case
studies of interventions that have been taken in a variety of settings in many different
countries.
***
Violence and Injuries: The Facts
World Health Organization, Department of Violence and Injury Preven-

tion and Disability, 2010
20 pp. 1.5 MB:

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2010/9789241599375_eng.pdf
Injuries and violence are among the most prominent public health prob-
lems in the world. As well as being a leading cause of mortality - particularly among
children and young adults - many of the millions of non-fatal injuries result in life-long
disabilities. Tens of millions more will suffer long-term psychological health effects as a
result of an injury or an act of violence. This publication provides the most up to date
global data on violence and injuries, their causes and consequences and measures to
prevent them.

Drinking and Driving
A road safety manual for decision-makers and practitioners
by Peter Cairney, Stephen Collier, Robert Klein et al.

Global Road Safety Partnership, 2007
173 pp. 3.1 MB:

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2007/9782940395002_eng.pdf
The purpose of this manual is to inform readers of practical ways to develop coordinated
and integrated programmes to reduce drinking and driving (including riding motorcycles)
within a country. The manual is aimed at addressing drinking and driving among drivers.
Commercial drivers are an especially important group to address in terms of drinking
and driving because of the large number of passengers they can carry and/or the num-
ber of kilometres they are likely to travel.
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Bulletin of the World Health Organization (BLT)
Volume 88, Number 8, August 2010, 561-640
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/8/en/index.html
IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN:

Afghanistan: outdated estimates; Afghanistan: starting from scratch; Israel:
safety on the school bus; Kenya: more deaths from HIV; Malaysia: disability
after encephalitis; South Africa: more treatment, faster; United States of
America: operating on a best guess; Global: a painful shortage; Global: shake test;
Global: whose problem is it?; Global: fat taxes; Global: how many beds?
***
Malaria Nexus - Elsevier’s Global Malaria Resource
http://www.malarianexus.com/
Malaria Nexus is a new initiative from Elsevier, which they be-

lieve will become a major resource for scientists working in all
aspects of malaria research. Within this site they will feature the latest published re-
search from a range of their leading Parasitology, Entomology and Tropical Medicine
journals, including articles from The Lancet Infectious Diseases, International Journal for
Parasitology, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and
many others. Every month articles will be selected from these journals and these articles
will then be available to download for free on Malaria Nexus.
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
Online Distance Learning Course: Gender, rights and health
8 November 2010 - 14 January 2011

Duration: 10 weeks

Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) Amsterdam
Application deadline: 1 September 2010
Health programmes and health policies are often developed without taking into consid-
eration the gender dimensions and rights perspective into consideration. Global health
policies and programmes influence local level programmes, and without a gender and
rights perspective may even worsen the situation of local communities.
This course equips participants with concepts, tools and analytical frameworks to ana-
lyse health programmes, policies and research from a gender and rights perspective.
Course venue (optional): Amsterdam

Fee: 800 Euro
Contact: mailto:healthtraining@kit.nl
For details, please see: http://www.kit.nl/eCache/FAB/46/525.html
CONFERENCES
3rd HIV and AIDS in the Workplace Research Conference
9-11 November
Johannesburg, South Africa
The Conference will reflect on the intersection of workplace HIV responses, academic
research and surveillance, with a particular focus on strengthening prevention interven-
tions in the fight against HIV and AIDS in Africa and linking prevention research to
workplace practice.
You are encouraged to register as soon as possible on the conference website:

http://www.sabcoha.org/conference
CARTOON

TIPS & TRICKS
View Files in Your Internet Browser
Internet Explorer and Firefox can do more than just surf the web. Use them to open all
sorts of files. Just drag and drop a file into your browser window and watch it open. It
comes in handy, especially for looking at JPEG's and GIF's, but other files work, as well.
It can also open text files, and provided you have the correct Office software installed on
your computer, it can open some of those, too! Experiment a bit and see what you come
up with. Just drag a file over into an open browser window.
***
What is Inside Your System?
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
How well do you know the insides of your PC? It is all

enclosed in a shiny case for the most part, and barring
anyone out there. What is one to do to gather informa-
tion on your system without picking up a screwdriver?
There is a freeware programme by a company called

CPUID. It is called CPU-Z (see above URL) a diagnos-
tic programme that gathers information about things
like your processor and RAM, and then displays it right
on your screen or outputs to a text file for printing. All
the specifics on your system’s silicon innards can be
made visual without even cracking the case open.
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Dieter Neuvians MD

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Can malaria be eliminated?

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Ecology: A Prerequisite for Malaria Elimination and Eradication

by Heather M. Ferguson, Anna Dornhaus, Arlyne Beeche et al.

Health, Education, Social Protection News & Notes 17/2010

Health, Education, Social Protection News & Notes 17/2010