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September 28, 2010

How to Save Women's Lives - the Lessons from Sierra Leone

Dr. Samuel A.S. Kargbo

Earlier this year, Sierra Leone took the giant step of abolishing health charges for pregnant and breastfeeding women and young children. Dr Samuel AS Kargbo, director of the reproductive and child health programme for the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, reports on progress so far.

As published in The Guardian on September 18, 2010.

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September 28, 2010

Achieving the health MDGs: country ownership in four steps

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

As published here in the Lancet on September 22, 2010. To read more about Dr. Tedros' insight into leadership for global health, see his interview with John Donnelly here.

This week (Sept 20–22), world leaders gathered in New York, NY, USA, to give a final push to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to which they committed in 2000. Although some progress has been made, a new approach is sorely needed if countries are to achieve MDG targets by 2015.

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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.

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September 22, 2010

Sturchio: 'The focus should be on outcomes'

John Donnelly

Part eight of the 8-part series In the Driver’s Seat: A Series on Country Ownership of Health Programs. Dr. Jeffrey L. Sturchio is president and CEO of the Global Health Council. He also is a member of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network, which aims to modernize the system for prioritizing and managing U.S. global development efforts. 

Q: Why is country ownership important?

A: If you just look at the tradition of foreign assistance, billions of dollars have gone into this system the last 50 years, but countries haven’t been fully developed. The way things were being done just wasn’t working. Now, there’s an effort by donors and those in developing countries to figure out how to do development work much better.

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September 21, 2010

From Mali: `We have a lot of control now’

John Donnelly

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?

A: To me, country ownership is crucial to achieve the development goals. All the support given by partners should help the country become better organized and conduct its own development. Countries cannot be just a place to capture support for donor countries and move on their agenda.

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