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September 14, 2010
Welcome to our new blog
Welcome to our new blog, Leading Global Health. This week, we are featuring a series of stories rarely told, yet critical to the developing world: the growing importance of leaders in Ministries of Health.
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September 16, 2010
Ethiopia’s Tedros: No ownership, no scale
Part three of the 8-part series In the Driver’s Seat: A Series on Country Ownership of Health Programs. Ethiopian Health Minister Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has worked in his country’s Health Ministry since 1986 and has led it since 2005.
Q: What has frustrated you about the lack of country ownership in the past?
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September 20, 2010
From Nepal: `We build step by step’
Part six of the 8-part series In the Driver’s Seat: A Series on Country Ownership of Health Programs. Dr. Sudha Sharma, Nepal’s Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Population and a gynecologist and public health specialist by training, spoke with John Donnelly in her office in Kathmandu earlier this month.
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September 21, 2010
From Mali: `We have a lot of control now’
Part seven of the 8-part series In the Driver’s Seat: A Series on Country Ownership of Health Programs. Dr. Salif Samake is Director of Planning and Statistics for Mali’s Health Ministry.
Q: How important is country ownership of health programs in Mali?
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September 28, 2010
Restoring Health Services in Sierra Leone
When I was child in Sierra Leone some three decades ago, I suffered from asthma, and my parents took me to Ola During Children’s Hospital for treatment. The health system was fully functional then. All types of blood tests could be performed at the hospital and the country had plenty of specialists: pediatricians, neurologists, pathologists. Health care facilities had ample pharmaceuticals; food was provided during your stay.
God bless the people who are helping to raise the health index of Sierra Leone... And God bless...
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