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Learning from Diabetes: Why Smart Government Spending Matters for SDG Medicines Target [1]

April 21, 2016
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Cross-posted with permission from Devex.com. The World Health Organization’s first global report on diabetes released this month highlights the disease’s “alarming surge” with rates that have quadrupled in fewer than three decades. The report reminds us that essential diabetes medicines and health technologies, including lifesaving insulin, are available in only one in three of the world’s poorest countries.

MSH at the South African AIDS Conference: Hope, Camaraderie, Unity [3]

June 09, 2015
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Just a few months ago, the province of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, captured the world’s attention for unfortunate reasons: xenophobic attacks on foreign African nationals. This week, from June 9 to 12 in Durban, the same province is hosting the 7th South African AIDS conference, a gathering expected to bring together thousands of activists from within the country, the Southern African region and, indeed, the rest of the continent and the world, to “reflect, refocus, and renew” efforts in response to HIV and AIDS.

Global Health Impact: Ensuring Access to Affordable, Quality Medicines [4]

June 01, 2015
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MSH's May 2015 newsletter highlights the global health impact of pharmaceutical management: Ensuring access to affordable, quality medicines saves lives (subscribe). Introduction by Jonathan D. Quick, MD, MPH Health care is largely dependent upon essential medicines for preventing infection, reducing pain, and treating illness. The development of effective medicines, however, is only the beginning. Quality care means getting the right medicine, in the right dose, at an affordable price, for all the people who need it.

Using a Health Systems Strengthening Approach to Contain Antimicrobial Resistance: A South African Experience [6]

May 27, 2015
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Antimicrobial resistance is a major threat to the long-term security of public health and has the potential to negatively impact our society. It is a serious and growing global health security risk, which needs to be prioritised at local and international levels.

South Africa & Zambia Congressional Study Tour: Exploring the Health Impact of Capacity Building, Partnerships, and Country Ownership [9]

April 01, 2015
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Management Sciences for Health (MSH) sponsored a Congressional Staff Study Tour to South Africa and Zambia in February 2015 to examine the local impact of US funded health capacity strengthening in Southern Africa. During the trip, site visits and meetings highlighted the impact of local health capacity building efforts in pharmaceutical management of essential medicines and HIV & AIDS drugs and technical and managerial development opportunities for community workers.  

Photos: MSH Celebrating International Women's Day Around the World [11]

March 20, 2014
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MSH staff and projects participated in International Women's Day celebrations in dozens of countries around the world. We share some of our stories with photos and excerpts from South Africa, Uganda, and Afghanistan. Uganda Celebrates

Remembering Madiba [16]

December 05, 2013
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(Also see MSH's official statement mourning the death of Nelson Mandela. —Eds.) I am only one of thousands of young South Africans who left our country in our teen years, fleeing persecution for our political beliefs and actions, and believing that by leaving our country we would regroup and come back to contribute to the overthrow of the apartheid, racist regime. Did we really believe that would happen?

World AIDS Day: Getting to an AIDS-Free Generation [17]

November 27, 2013
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I remember attending the Durban international AIDS conference in 2000, my first. That was the one where everything was going to turn around and we were going get a handle on the epidemic. Nelson Mandela spoke at that one, in a hall that was the size of three football fields. And the crowd was joyous, raucous, the noise was deafening and it was one of the most memorable days of my life. 

New Evidence, New Thinking: Regional HIV Prevention Training for Program Managers Piloted in Swaziland [18]

May 14, 2013
“Where will the next new infections come from?” {Photo credit: BLC/MSH.} [18]

This post originally appeared on the Southern Africa HIV and AIDS Regional Exchange (SHARE) blog."All the people we need to make a difference in HIV globally are sitting in this room," said Paul Waibale, deputy director of the Building Local Capacity Project (BLC) for the Delivery of HIV Services in Southern Africa, during the opening of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) HIV prevention workshop, "New evidence, new thinking."With funding from USAID, the week-long workshop on enhancing national and regional approaches to HIV prevention kicked off April 8, 2013, with 32 of Swazila

Missed Opportunities for Strengthening HIV Testing and Counseling Services in Southern Africa [20]

February 07, 2013
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Cross-posted from SHARE: Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Regional Exchange.

Join MSH at the Global Maternal Health Conference 2013 [22]

January 14, 2013
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Management Sciences for Health (MSH) invites you to attend the following sessions and poster presentations at the Global Maternal Health Conference in Arusha, Tanzania --- whether in person at the Arusha International Conference Center, or watching via archived videos online. (All times are listed in Eastern Africa Time: UTC/GMT +3 hours.

Botswana's Quality Improvement and Leadership Program: Inside Mahalapye Hospital [23]

September 11, 2012
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“J’mappelle Mompati. Comment t’appelles tu?”Overcoming my confusion at being greeted by a French-speaking man in Botswana, I smile, take his proffered hand and reply in my rusty, stilted French, “J’mappelle Naume...”Mompati is Mahalapye Hospital’s dynamic public relations officer. Now that he has my full attention, Mompati wastes no time in telling me about his work linking the hospital and the surrounding community through events and the media.

AIDS 2012: Watch Webcast of Beyond MDG 6: HIV & Chronic NCDs: Integrating Health Systems Towards UHC [25]

July 23, 2012
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SESSION DETAILSWhile building on the momentum of the UN Summit in September 2011, this satellite recognizes that PLHIV both treated and untreated, suffer from co-morbidities due to chronic NCDS. This satellite will examine the role of chronic NCDs and their link with HIV. More specifically, we will review lessons learned from the AIDS Decade of the 2000s and determine what lessons can be leveraged and applied beyond 2015 in the context of an emerging global burden of chronic NCDs.

A Bus Ride to New Opportunities in Lesotho [26]

April 30, 2012
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Early in the morning of January 31, 2012, caregivers, support group members, village leaders, and the local council secretary gathered to say goodbye to 9 girls and 11 boys, orphaned youth ranging in age from 15 to 17. From 10 different villages in the Mohale’s Hoek district of Lesotho, these teens were headed for new horizons.The adults wished the youth well, encouraged them to try their very best, and waved them off as they boarded the bus.

Towards Universal Health Coverage: Moving UHC Forward [28]

January 18, 2012
UHC Forward website (UHCForward.org) [28]

Cross-posted from the UHC Forward blog. To support the efforts of countries that have committed to making substantive universal health coverage reforms, experts in many areas of financial protection must continually share in dialogue and debate.To this end, the Results for Development Institute, in partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation, is pleased to announce the launch of UHC Forward, a new website that tracks and consolidates key health coverage information from hundreds of sources into a one-stop portal with feature news, events, and publications related to the growing global uni

World Premiere of 'Inside Story: The Science of HIV/AIDS' [30]

December 13, 2011
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Inside Story: The Science of HIV/AIDS, a new feature-length docudrama in which USAID plays a supporting role, premiered to a packed theater in Johannesburg, South Africa, on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2011.Inside Story is a unique mixture of science and fiction and includes cast members and characters from Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa.Kalu, a rising Kenyan soccer player, migrates to South Africa to establish his career. A romantic encounter leads to the unwelcome realization that he is HIV positive.

Universal Immunization through Universal Health Coverage? [31]

August 09, 2011
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A child born in Ghana today will most likely receive a full schedule of immunizations, and her chances of surviving past the age of five are far better than they were a decade ago. Today Ghana boasts a coverage rate for infant vaccination of 90 percent and hasn’t seen an infant die of measles since 2003.Ghana has been expanding primary health care by bringing services to people’s doorsteps since the 1980s, and since the early 2000s has done so in the context of a commitment to universal health coverage.

Health Financing: The Foundation of a Strong Health System [33]

February 01, 2011
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Millions of people around the world die each year from preventable diseases because they cannot access affordable health care.

Social Welfare Workforce Strengthening Conference [34]

November 18, 2010
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MSH is attending the Social Welfare Workforce Strengthening Conference in Cape Town this week. AIDSTAR-Two, a USAID-funded MSH led project, is a key organizer of the conference. Ghazal Keshavarzian, Better Care Network Senior Coordinator, provides an update from the Social Welfare Workforce Strengthening Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. This post originally appeared on OVCsupportnet.org.

AIDS 2010 Update: Results of CAPRISA Microbicide Gel Trial: An exciting HIV Prevention Tool for Women [35]

July 23, 2010
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On July 19, here in Vienna at the XVIIIth International AIDS Conference, positive results were announced from the CAPRISA 004 Phase IIb microbicide trial of 1% tenofovir gel, which was tested in 889 South African women.

AIDS 2010 Update: A Corner Turned for HIV & AIDS Care, Treatment, and Prevention in South Africa [36]

July 22, 2010
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The South African Minister of Health, Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi, provided a clear picture of a new era of HIV & AIDS care, treatment, and prevention in South Africa at the International AIDS Conference on Tuesday morning.All of South Africa is united behind one goal of fighting HIV & AIDS,  he said.  Dr. Motsoaledi stands behind a firm commitment to human rights, “access to care, treatment, and prevention is a human right.”He is working with the Government of South Africa to ensure universal access in their country.

A Closer Look at Neglected Tropical Diseases [38]

July 08, 2010
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At the Global Health Council Conference, I attended an interesting event, “Impact of Schistosomiasis and Polyparasitic Infections on Anemia, Growth and Physical Fitness in Children in Coastal Kenya” presented by  Dr. Amaya Bustinduy of Case Western Reserve University which focused on neglected tropical diseases (NTD).Schistosomiasis remains one of the most serious and prevalent neglected tropical diseases worldwide.  According to Bustinduy, the WHO estimated that there are 235 million cases of schistosomiasis with 732 million to be at risk for contraction.

UNAIDS Launches ‘Red Card’ Campaign Against HIV [40]

June 17, 2010
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UNAIDS’s new campaign aims to eliminate mother to child transmission (MTCT) of HIV by the 2012 World Cup in Brazil. It is fantastic to see that UNAIDS is using the enthusiasm and media coverage of World Cup to draw attention to one of Africa’s most pressing health issues, perinatal transmission of HIV. My colleague Jude Nwokikie, program manager of the Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems (SPS) project in South Africa and Namibia declared, “The world is no longer in the mood to tolerate MTCT.”
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