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September 29, 2010

MLI’s training on negotiations pays off for Nepal

John Donnelly

KATHMANDU – For Gabriele Mallapaty, the idea sounded intriguing: A friend had suggested that the Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health should offer a training session to the Ministry of Health and Population on how to become better negotiators.

Mallapaty, MLI’s County Lead in Nepal, asked Dr. Yasho Vardan Pradhan, then the Chief of Policy Planning and International Cooperation, what he thought of the idea. Pradhan, now Director General of Nepal's Department of Health Services, endorsed it almost immediately.

September 27, 2010

Nepal has lessons to teach on TB

John Donnelly

As seen in The Guardian on September 27, 2010. Today 90% of TB cases are cured in Nepal, but funds and facilities are badly needed to fight drug-resistant tuberculosis.

The rain came down so hard that the man in a centre of a tiny room in a slum here couldn't be heard. It pounded on the tin roof. Outside, puddles became ponds, and groups of boys, their hair matted and their T-shirts glued to their ribs, dodged and splashed and fell, and it didn't matter.

Welcome to the new frontline in fighting TB in Nepal.

September 20, 2010

From Nepal: `We build step by step’

John Donnelly

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.

Q: What can Nepal’s experience in country ownership teach other countries?

A: We have just completed the development of Nepal’s health sector program for the next five years. The key elements are based on five principles of international partnership – country ownership, harmonization, alignment, management for results, and mutual accountability.

September 20, 2010 (All day)

MDG 6: Controlling a Menace in Nepal, MDR-TB

John Donnelly

As published in Global Health Magazine, September 20, 2010.

POKHARA, Nepal - Dil Kumari had spent her lifetime of more than 60 years in the village of Syangja, about a four-hour drive from this lakeside city in a valley of the Himalayas. She dearly wished to be there now, with her husband, her friends, her garden, her two oxen, and her two goats.

But for the past five months, she has been in Pokhara to receive treatment for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis - MDR-TB. Pokhara is home to a Regional TB Centre, and so Kumari moved in with her sister and daughter who live here.

September 16, 2010

Family Planning in Nepal: ‘One is Just Fine'

John Donnelly

KATHMANDU, Nepal - Nepal's health trends make many other countries envious. As seen in the Global Health Magazine's blog.

Child mortality is way down. Maternal mortality is down. Malaria cases have decreased 10-fold in a decade. Immunizations are up, now at 90 percent coverage. And cure rates of TB patients are at 90 percent, double the rate 15 years ago.

But for Dr. Yasho Vardan Pradhan, director general of Nepal's Department of Health Services, one of the country's biggest successes is not on that list - it's family planning and the steady decline of the average numbers of birth for Nepali women.

MLI’s training on negotiations pays off for Nepal

Nepal has lessons to teach on TB

From Nepal: `We build step by step’

MDG 6: Controlling a Menace in Nepal, MDR-TB

Family Planning in Nepal: ‘One is Just Fine'

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