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February 03, 2015
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Remembering MSH Colleagues, Gadue, Niebling, and Urdaneta [2]

Amy Niebling/MSH, Afghanistan} [2]Photo: Amy Niebling/MSH, Afghanistan

Today, February 3, 2015, is 10 years since the tragic loss of three Management Sciences for Health (MSH) colleagues, Carmen Urdaneta, Amy Lynn Niebling, and Cristi Gadue, in a plane crash outside Kabul, Afghanistan.

MSH held a remembrance of Amy, Cristi, and Carmen today for all staff, friends, and family. The slideshow below includes photos of and by our beloved colleagues.

Remembering Amy, Cristi & Carmen

The Gadue‐Niebling‐Urdaneta (GNU) Memorial Fund -- established to further the work to which these remarkable women dedicated their lives -- awarded 11 fellowships in their honor, and ended in 2012.

Did you know Amy, Cristi, or Carmen?

You are welcome to add a brief remembrance in the comments below.

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February 04, 2015
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Emerging World Cities: Innovating on Cancer's Front Lines [7]

Chronic Diseases [9]
Health Systems Strengthening [10]
Universal Health Coverage [11]
Warren Zelman.} [7]Photo credit: Warren Zelman.

This post originally appeared on Devex [12].

Cancer is gaining ground in the developing world.

People in poor countries are more likely to die from cancer, and die far younger, than people in rich countries. Today, on World Cancer Day, this  [13]cancer divide [13] continues to worsen. Even as misconceptions have receded, the reality hasn’t.

There’s been political progress at the global level, including the 2011 U.N. resolution on noncommunicable diseases like cancer. Yet the traditional mode of global assistance for developing countries — aid funding — hasn’t been forthcoming. Without it, the NCD agenda has gained little traction in those countries.

Perhaps the answer isn’t countries at all.

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February 04, 2015
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World Cancer Day 2015: Addressing Global Cervical Cancer: Not Beyond Us [15]

Chronic Diseases [9]
Health Systems Strengthening [10]
Universal Health Coverage [11]
Women & Gender [16]
Mark Tuschman, Kenya} [15]Photo: Mark Tuschman, Kenya

Not Beyond Us. This is the theme of World Cancer Day 2015 [17]. But how will we achieve it? Cancer can seem insurmountable. The global cancer burden is great. In 2012, 8.2 million people died from cancer-related causes—most of them in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America, which experiences more cases and more deaths than anywhere else: 60 percent of the 14 million new cancer cases annually and 70 percent of all cancer-related deaths occur in the developing world [18]. The same countries bearing the brunt of the cancer burden have the fewest resources to tackle it [19].

Still we know and remind one another today, the 4th of February: We can and must stop vaccine-preventable cancers and reduce preventable cancer deaths. We must reduce the cancer inequities.

Cancer, you are not beyond us.  

Among women, cervical cancer is one of the deadliest -- and most easily preventable -- cancers.  Women in the developing world account for 85 percent of the 270,000 deaths every year.  Yet we know that effective prevention, treatment and care are possible.

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February 13, 2015
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African Evaluation Journal: Call for Articles, Peer Reviewers on Health [21]

Health Systems Strengthening [10]
HIV & AIDS [23]
Todd Shapera} [21]Gisenyi District Hospital, Rwanda.Photo credit: Todd Shapera

The African Evaluation Journal [24] (AEJ), the official journal for the African Evaluation Association (AfrEA), is calling for articles and peer reviewers for the special AEJ edition “Health Evaluations in Africa.” This process presents an exciting opportunity to participate in Africa’s contribution to the internationally-declared 2015 Year of Evaluation [25]. 

Articles must focus on evaluations of the health sector in Africa, have at least one author who is an African national or based in Africa, and be written in English or French. According to AEJ:

Priority will be given to health evaluations contributing to or involving: policy development or policy change, health system strengthening, and/or integration of the health sector with other sectors.

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February 13, 2015
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My Campaign, Our Campaign: Health for All in Africa [27]

Health Systems Strengthening [10]
Universal Health Coverage [11]
Anteneh Tesfaye Lemma/MSH.} [27]Photo credit: Anteneh Tesfaye Lemma/MSH.

Meeting my predecessor

There he was: Kenaw! I was seeing him in person for the first time. Kenaw is a friendly guy; we greeted like we’d known each other awhile. I hear from my Health for All: Campaign for Universal Health Coverage in Africa [28] (Health for All) colleagues that he was wonderful to work with and got along with almost everyone in the office within a few weeks of arriving. Although I hadn't had the opportunity to work with him, I sprinted from the foundation he laid to further the campaign’s activities as I joined MSH and Health for All in January 2013.

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February 18, 2015
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Celebrating Health Progress in Haiti [30]

Fragile States [33]
Health Systems Strengthening [10]
HIV & AIDS [23]
US Global Health Policy [34]
Women & Gender [16]
Dominic Chavez} [30]Brissault Eunise (seated) watching over her daughter Kerwencia, after receiving breast feeding classes.Photo credit: Dominic Chavez

This post is part of MSH's Global Health Impact Blog series, Improving Health in Haiti: Remember, Rebuild [35].

As January 12, 2015 marked the fifth anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) and its partner organizations, including the Leadership, Management & Governance Project/Haiti, brought together Haitian and US government officials and key global health stakeholders for two days of meetings and events highlighting health progresses made in Haiti since 2010.

Update, April 14, 2015:

Watch video recordings of the summit


Original post continues:

Haitian health leaders meet on Capitol Hill

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February 19, 2015
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SIAPS Co-Hosting Global Tuberculosis Conference: Building the Post-2015 Agenda [37]

Health Systems Strengthening [10]
Warren Zelman} [37]The MSH-led Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) program is co-hosting the Global TB Conference 2015: Building the Post-2015 Agenda with the Stop TB Partnership Global Drug Facility.Photo credit: Warren Zelman
The US Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS) Program, led by Management Sciences for Health [40] (MSH), in collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership Global Drug Facility [41], will host a technical conference titled, “Building the Post-2015 Agenda: Novel Approaches to Improving Access to TB Medicines and Pharmaceutical Services [42]” from March 2-6, 2015 at the Conrad Bangkok Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

The invitation-only conference will feature country experiences using tested approaches to prevent tuberculosis (TB) medicine stock-outs, increase TB case detection through private sector engagement, and ensure patient safety during TB treatment. National TB program (NTP) managers or deputies; NTP procurement and supply management leads; monitoring and evaluation leads for TB/data managers; donors; and World Health Organization and Stop TB Partnership partners are expected to attend.

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February 23, 2015
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Haiti, Five Years After the Earthquake: Resilient and Complex [44]

Fragile States [33]
Health Systems Strengthening [10]
HIV & AIDS [23]
Universal Health Coverage [11]
US Global Health Policy [34]
Women & Gender [16]
Julie O'Brien/MSH} [44]Haiti.Photo credit: Julie O'Brien/MSH

This post is part of MSH's Global Health Impact Blog series, Improving Health in Haiti: Remember, Rebuild [35]. The post originally appeared on LMGforHealth.org [45], the blog of the US Agency for International Development (USAID)'s Leadership, Management & Governance (LMG) Project, led by Management Sciences for Health (MSH) and a consortium of partners.

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February 25, 2015
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Ethiopia: Mearege and the Korem Mother Mentors: Video [47]

Fragile States [33]
Health Systems Strengthening [10]
HIV & AIDS [23]
Women & Gender [16]
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When Mearege gets really sick, her husband leaves town. Bedridden and in the care of her parents, Mearege gets tested and learns she--and her daugther--are HIV-positive. Through the support of mother mentors, trained by the Ethiopia Network for HIV/AIDS Treatment, Care and Support Program [49] (ENHAT-CS), Mearege finds solace, guidance, and healing -- and decides to have another child.

Mearege is one of many HIV-positive women in Ethiopia whose lives have been transformed, with the support of ENHAT-CS. Says Mearege:

I was able to have a healthy child because I followed up with the mentor mothers and applied their teaching...

Presented by ENHAT-CS in partnership with the National Network of Positive Women Ethiopians, this video is made possible by the generous support of the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief [50] (PEPFAR) through the US Agency for International Development [51] (USAID).

Watch video

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February 27, 2015
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Safeguarding Access to Medicines Amid Violence, Political Turmoil in South Sudan [53]

Fragile States [33]
Health Systems Strengthening [10]
Dominic Chavez} [53]South Sudan.Photo credit: Dominic Chavez

In December 2013, Africa’s newest country, South Sudan, imploded with violence between government forces and a rebel opposition led by a former vice president. The violence continues today despite regional efforts at reconciliation by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and other state actors. The war, however, has not stopped South Sudan’s frontline health workers in their efforts to build a public health system, including access to medicines, from the ground up.

The US Agency for International Development [51] (USAID)-funded Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services [40] (SIAPS) Program is working with our South Sudanese partners to build the institutional, technical, and organizational capacity of the country’s health system—despite the ongoing conflict.

Our approach to strengthening the health system is based around the concept of embedment—where full-time technical advisors work with their South Sudanese counterparts on a day-to-day basis. This approach strengthens the technical and managerial capacity of local leaders, ensuring sustainability, while, at the same time, getting the job done: building a strong health system.

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Source URL: https://www.msh.org/blog/archive/201502

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