Editorial: WHO Global Code of Practice – lost in translation?
Dear reader,
The “WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel” was adopted by the World Health Assembly, in May 2010. Three years later, back in Geneva at the World Health Assembly, it looked as if the Code has gone lost somehow in its translation from paper to practice.
“We still require at least an additional 4.3 million health workers. Still, one billion people world-wide will never see a health worker in their life.” This is how Anke Tijtsma, Wemos, introduced a civil society side event to the World Health Assembly organized by the Medicus Mundi International Network for a great number of civil society partners and co-promoters such as the delegations of the EU, USA, Switzerland and Malawi to the WHA. The event was attended by over 80 WHO Member States delegates, WHO staff and civil society delegates. Starting with case stories of Code implementation, country leadership and civil society involvement from source and destination countries and regions, the event led to a general discussion and overall conclusions on the state of Code implementation and the management of health personnel migration.
As Marie-Paule Kieny, Assistant Director General of the WHO, admitted, progress in Code implementation is “painfully slow”. But what are the reasons that “stoking up the fire for Code implementation” has become such a challenge? Some possible explanations:
International recruitment or overall roadmap? The “WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel”, despite its name and besides more specific sections dealing with international migration and recruitment, provides an overall roadmap for health workforce development. In the words of Amani Siyam from the WHO Secretariat: “The Code is a planting bed for many good seeds of change. Just read it again!” And, more important, this roadmap was agreed and unanimously endorsed by all WHO member states in 2010. So one of the biggest problems with the Code is its title. A simple solution would be to just informally re-label and promote it as “WHO Code of Practice on addressing the health workforce crisis”.
What cannot be counted does not count…: Dealing with the global health workforce crisis in a systemic and comprehensive way, as proposed by the Code, and promoting good practice in various fields related to developing and retaining a sustainable health workforce has its risks. Health systems are something “complex”, not easy to deal with. But national policy makers and international agencies and donors prefer more simple proposals: simple, easy to implement and internationally funded programs with clear, measurable and time-bound targets. So why not link the promotion of the Code with the efforts for scaling up and transforming health workers education and with the current global push for achieving universal health coverage. If we focus too much on a particular aspect of the health workforce crisis (migration and recruitment OR education) and the related policies and strategies, we get lost in fragmentation. So rather let us admit, that, in its core, it is all about the same. Let us leave our silos and realize that are stronger walking together.
Code adopted – everything (nothing) achieved? At the civil society side event to the World Health Assembly various speakers stated that, after the tough negotiations before and during the 2010 WHA, the adoption of the Code was for many the end of something instead of its beginning: At that moment, there was great enthusiasm, but no preparedness to work with the Code, and no proper mechanisms in place for its implementation. And it also rather looked then as if those who promoted the Code considered the mission as accomplished and dropped or downgraded the issue afterwards. This was at least how the drastic staff cuts at the HRH unit of the WHO Secretariat in 2011 were seen from the outside.
You can also see this point differently: During the elaboration of the Code in 2010 the language was diluted in that the mention of compensation to source countries for the costs incurred in the formation of emigrated health workforce was removed. So, when the Code was adopted, it might be that those countries that expected cash were not happy just to get just kind (words). It is time to re-politicise the discussion on the devastating effects of lacking health personnel in poor countries and regions and on the global dimensions of the national health workforce crises. It is time to denounce and address the economic and political determinants of poor health and poor social protection, such as tax evasion and capital flight.
Everybody’s business? When Marie-Paule Kieny, Assistant Director General of the WHO, expressed the greetings of the WHO Director General to the participants of the civil society side event, she said that civil society involvement in the follow-up of the implementation of the Code was well acknowledged by WHO and concluded: “It is everybody’s business to move ahead with it.” But what sounds encouraging can also be a problem: If everybody is responsible, nobody takes responsibility. So even if it is “everybody’s business” to move ahead with the Code, the main responsible are the WHO and its member states. It is up to them to show commitment, ownership and leadership. There is much at stake. The success or failure of the implementation of the Code will be seen as a case study for the capacity of WHO – and its members – in the field of global standard setting and regulation. This links the technical issue of Code implementation with the overall issue of WHO reform and the role of WHO in global health governance.
Conclusion of the WHO Secretariat’s report to the WHA: “The health workforce crisis is a global, multidimensional challenge. It requires a comprehensive global strategy to transform the production of health workers, encompassing labour market analysis as well as the transformation of education and training of the health workforce, at national and transnational levels. It is essential that countries wanting to improve access to health care meet the challenge posed by shortages in the health workforce. Renewed approaches to the health workforce crisis will therefore be critical for moving towards universal health coverage.” – There is nothing to add to that one.
Thomas Schwarz, Executive Secretary
Medicus Mundi International Network
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Extract from an article published earlier in the MMI blog
“Get involved in global health” (12 June 2013)
www.bit.ly/whocode-2013 with full references
The MMI Network is a member of the European project
“Health Workers for all and all for health workers”
www.healthworkers4all.eu/home/
WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment
of Health Personnel: Stoking up the fire for Code implementation
WHA side event documentation: www.bit.ly/wha66-code
MMI Network: News and resources
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MMI Jubilee Assembly in Barcelona, 7-8 June 2013
Primary Health Care and cooperation: A utopia?
The Jubilee events of the Federation of Medicus Mundi Spain (MM Spain) started with a scientific conference on “Primary Health Care and Cooperation: A utopia?”. The Assembly of MMI on Saturday morning was held in parallel with the MM Spain Jubilee Assembly . Further jubilee side events took plaace from Friday to Sunday. Many thanks to MM Spain and to Medicus Mundi Catalunya for having invited MMI to Barcelona!
> Event and Assembly documentation: www.bit.ly/mmi50
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Annual Report 2012 of the MMI Network
Jubilee Report: 50 years of MMI – Looking back and ahead
Contents: Message from the President; Implementing the Network strategy: From initial Network programs to systematic work plans; Network meetings; Welcome to new Network members; “Short stories” by Network members; Financial facts and figures; Network members.
As an annex to the Annual report 2012, the MMI Network published the report “50 years of MMI – Looking back and ahead” with memories and insights by the current and former MMI presidents (PDF, 2 MB)
> Report: www.medicusmundi.org/en/contributions/reporting/2013/annual-report-2012-of-the-mmi-network
> Jubilee annex: www.medicusmundi.org/en/contributions/events/2012/1963-2013-50-years-of-mmi/mmi-jubilee-2013.pdf
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Members of the MMI Network: “short story” by Medicus Mundi Navarra
A new Healthcare Model for Latin America
Medicus Mundi (medicusmundi) Navarra is promoting an intercultural, comprehensive and inclusive healthcare model in Guatemala, Bolivia and Peru which aims to transform the continent’s healthcare systems in order to guarantee universal coverage for communities that are traditionally excluded. (contribution to MMI Annual Report)
> www.medicusmundi.org/en/contributions/reports/2013/a-new-healthcare-model-for-latin-america
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Members of the MMI Network: “short story” by Medicus Mundi Poland
Celebrating the 20th Anniversary
Medicus Mundi Poland was created on the basis of “Redemptoris Missio” Foundation in Poznań, Poland. The Foundation started at the Clinic of Tropical and Parasitic Diseases, University of Medical Sciences in Poznań, Poland in the year 1992, and in 2012 has celebrated its 20-years anniversary. (contribution to MMI Annual Report)
> www.medicusmundi.org/en/contributions/reports/2013/celebrating-the-20th-anniversary
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Members of the MMI Network: “short story” by HealthNet TPO
Community Systems Strengthening: Addressing the Social Determinants of Health
HealthNet TPO is a health organization that works with violence-affected communities in fragile states to enable them to take control of their own health and wellbeing. We have been developing and piloting the Community Systems Strengthening (CSS) approach over the last 2 years in order to operationalize this principle of empowerment. We are now preparing to use it as a core component for complex and scaled-up health interventions in several of our project countries. (contribution to MMI Annual Report)
> www.medicusmundi.org/en/contributions/reports/2013/community-systems-strengthening-addressing-the-social-determinants-of-health
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Members of the MMI Network: “short story” by Emergenza Sorrisi
The Sweet Smile of Alexandra
In October 2012 Emergenza Sorrisi – Doctors for Smiling Children N.G.O. and N.P.O. (formerly Smile Train Italia) has completed a humanitarian project to give joy to smile to a 3 years old Ukrainian child called Alexandra. (contribution to MMI Annual Report)
> www.medicusmundi.org/en/contributions/reports/2013/the-sweet-smile-of-alexandra
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Members of the MMI Network: “short story” by Health Poverty Action
Bridging the gap between communities and formal health services
Despite the indicator of 90% of births attended by skilled health personnel under Millennium Development Goal 5 (to reduce maternal mortality by ¾), 52 million births still take place without a skilled birth attendant every year. (contribution to MMI Annual Report)
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Members of the MMI Network: “short story” by Doctors with Africa CUAMM
The doctor is waiting for a smile
A smile is one of the first signs that a malnourished child is regaining strength and recovering. A smile is what many doctors await as confirmation of effective treatment. The wait is particularly intense among young doctors at their first experience of the harsh reality of Africa where malnutrition is often, too often, a fact of life for many families. (contribution to MMI Annual Report)
> www.medicusmundi.org/en/network-resources/network-reporting/the-doctor-is-waiting-for-a-smile
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Members of the MMI Network: “short story” by Medicus Mundi Italia
Miriam’s story
Like many other women from Burkina Faso, Miriam lives in Ivory Coast with her husband. Her family had emigrated there to find work. After some years, still in her twenties, she goes back to her native village in Burkina. She has lost weight, feels miserable, alone, abandoned by her husband and excluded by everyone because she does not have children. She has only had several miscarriages and stillbirths, and everyone thinks she is a cursed woman… (contribution to MMI Annual Report)
> www.medicusmundi.org/en/contributions/reports/2013/miriams-story
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Members of the MMI Network:
Annual Reports
First Annual Reports 2012 of Network members are published on the organizations’ website. Have a look at them – and let us know when further reports are available.
- medico international: www.medico.de/material/artikel/medico-jahresbericht-2012/4455/
- HealthNet TPO: www.healthnettpo.org/files/887/annual-report-hntpo-2012.pdf
- Cordaid: www.cordaidjaarverslag.nl/downloads/
- EPN: www.epnetwork.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=338&Itemid=15
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MMI Network: People’s Health Movement
Global Health Watch 4: Call for case stories
“The Global Health Watch (GHW) is an alternative World Health Report that incorporates the voices of marginalized people and civil society into discussions around social justice and global health. The GHW coordinating group has identified broad areas to be covered in the 4th issue of the Watch, which is officially scheduled for release in October, 2014. We are now seeking your assistance in sourcing case studies that can add value to each of these important topics.”
> www.medicusmundi.org
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Members of the MMI Network: Federation of Medicus Mundi Spain
Health in development cooperation and human action. Report 2012
The “Health in development cooperation and human action report” made by Medicus Mundi Spain, Médicos del Mundo and Prosalus, was published for the first time in 2002. The original 2012 report in Spanish can be found on the website of Medicus Mundi Spain. An executive summary in English is available now on the MMI ePlatform.
> www.medicusmundi.org/en/contributions/reports/2012/salud
International Health Policy: MMI Updates
Bits and pieces of news on international health policy: each “MMI update” is 140 characters or less – these are the rules of the game on twitter. Just enough for a headline, eventually an author, a date, the source – and a link to the website where you find the full information. Have a look at some of our “tweets” published during the last month. As usual, it’s a bit much, so take it or leave it.
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Upcoming events
- The struggle for health. A short on line training course for young health activists, IPHU, 28 June to 13 October 2013
http://www.iphu.org/en/ipolItem - International Conference on Family Planning 2013, 12-15 November 2013: Call for abstracts
http://www.who.int/pmnch/media/news/2013/201304/en/index.html - Prince Mahidol conference 2014: transformative education of health workers. Call for abstracts
http://www.pmaconference.mahidol.ac.th - Global health: Interconnected challenges, integrated solutions. Geneva Health Forum 2014 http://ghf.globalhealthforum.net/2013/03/19/announcing-geneva-health-forum-2014/#.Ucfj3J86mGM
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Health systems strengthening
Health services, health financing
Universal health coverage
- The ghosts of user fees past: Exploring accountability for victims of a 30-year economic policy mistake. Rick Rowden
http://www.hhrjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2013/06/Rowden-FINAL.pdf - Health financing for universal coverage and health system performance. Joe Kutzin
http://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/12-113985.pdf - Out-of-pocket expenditures for primary health care in Tajikistan: a time-trend analysis. Joëlle Schwarz et al.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/13/103 - Promoting universal financial protection: scaling-up coverage with social health insurance in Nigeria. Onoka et al.
http://www.health-policy-systems.com/content/11/1/20/abstract - Promoting universal financial protection: new management of community health insurance in Tanzania. Borghi et al.
http://www.health-policy-systems.com/content/11/1/21/abstract - Universal Health Coverage. Questions and answers provided by WHO (pdf)
http://uhcforward.org/sites/uhcforward.org/files/QandAUHC.pdf - Universal Health Coverage and the post-2015 framework. Questions and answers provided by WHO (pdf)
http://www.who.int/entity/contracting/documents/QandA_UHC_post-2015.pdf - UHC with an African lens. Hor Sidua
http://uhcforward.org/blog/2013/jun/11/uhc-african-lens - Towards Universal Health Coverage: Update from the 66th World Health Assembly. Miriam Sangiorgio
http://www.ghd-net.org/sites/default/files/HDM%20V4%20I4.pdf - Performance based financing, a new episode in the war led by managed care on professionalism? JP Unger
http://e.itg.be/ihp/archives/pbf-episode-war-led-managed-care-professionalism/ - Performance based financing: let’s try to have a more constructive conversation. B. Meessen
http://shar.es/wjz5a - Micro Health Insurance: Chronicle of a death foretold? Thierry van Bastelaer
http://www.cgap.org/blog/micro-health-insurance-chronicle-death-foretold - Jim Kim shot my fox – World Bank president states that user fees reduce use of needed services
http://blogs.savethechildren.org.uk/2013/05/geneva-jim-kim-shot-my-fox/ - Cost-effectiveness vs. universal health coverage. Is the future random? Adam Wagstaff
https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/cost-effectiveness-vs-universal-health-coverage-future-random - Is Health Insurance Good for Health? | Center For Global Development
http://www.cgdev.org/blog/health-insurance-good-health
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Human resources for health
Migration of health professionals
- Health Worker Migration Innovation Award: nomination period for the 2013 awards open until 31 July
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/global-health-development/what-we-do/health-worker-migration-initiative/health-worker–0 - Human Resources for Health – a bottleneck for Primary Health Care? Remco van de Pas
http://getinvolvedinglobalhealth.blogspot.com.es/2013/06/human-resources-for-health-bottleneck.html - Implementation of WHO Code of Practice: Leadership, accountability and capacities are key! MMI statement at WHA
http://bit.ly/11sXMX4 - Vertical funding, NGOs, and health system strengthening: Public sector health workers in Mozambique. AH Mussa et al.
http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/11/1/26/abstract - Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative (HWAI) calls on the G8 to step up efforts to strengthen health workforce
http://www.hwai.org/?p=484 - Transforming health workforce education in support of universal health coverage. “Ad hoc” WHA resolution
http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA66/A66_R23-en.pdf - South Africa: Stop the exploitation of community health care workers! PHM South Africa media release
http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/7623 - Are health workers delivering for women? And are we delivering for health Workers? Rebecca Kohler
http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2013/06/10/are-health-workers-delivering-for-women-and-are-we-delivering-for-health - Massive gains on health worker migration could be lost. Omaswa/Crisp, Health Worker Migration Global Policy Council
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/policy-work/global-health-development/news/massive-gains-health-worker-migration-could-be-lost - Where have Europe’s nurses gone? Sigrid Lupieri
http://www.12newsnow.com/story/22308006/where-have-europes-nurses-gone - No Universal Health Coverage without health workers: Putting the Global Code back into the spotlight. YM Dambisya
http://equinetafrica.org/newsletter/index.php?issue=148#1 - WHO, the World Bank and Universal Halth Coverage. Charles Clift
http://www.chathamhouse.org/media/comment/view/191697 - Declaration to strengthen midwifery care
http://www.savethechildren.net/article/supporting-new-declaration-strengthen-midwifery-care - Migration of Sri Lankan medical specialists. A Pubudu De Silva et al.
http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/11/1/21/abstract
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Access to medicines and vaccination
Medical research and development
Neglected diseases
- Debating the scope of a health research and development convention. Mary Moran
http://www.who.int/entity/bulletin/online_first/12-110486.pdf - The price of ending the neglect for tropical diseases. Janis K. Lazdins-Helds and Nicoletta Dentico
http://www.other-news.info/2013/06/the-price-of-ending-the-neglect-for-tropical-diseases - Overcoming barriers to medicines production through South-South co-operation in Africa. SEATINI, CEHURD, TARSC (PDF)
http://www.equinetafrica.org/bibl/docs/EQ%20Polbrief%2034%20SS%20medicines.pdf - World Health Assembly: Groups seek to return focus to ‘broken’ medical R&D System. Brittany Ngo
http://www.ip-watch.org/2013/05/24/world-health-assembly-groups-seek-to-return-focus-to-broken-medical-rd-system - Report from the Geneva meeting on research and development. Geneva Graduate Institute
http://graduateinstitute.ch/globalhealth/Events_Global_Health_Programme/seminar24April/page15188.html - Joint letter to the 66th World Health Assembly: Follow-up of the report of the CEWG
http://keionline.org/node/1721 - Gates-backed vaccine alliance targets cervical cancer in poor countries – for a price. Tom Paulson
http://www.humanosphere.org/2013/05/gates-backed-vaccine-alliance-targets-cervical-cancer-in-poor-countries/
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Women’s and children’s health
Sexual and reproductive rights and health
- WHO report highlights violence against women as a ‘global health problem of epidemic proportions’
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2013/violence_against_women_20130620/en/index.html - Maternal and Child Nutrition. Executive Summary of The Lancet Maternal and Child Nutrition Series (pdf)
http://download.thelancet.com/flatcontentassets/pdfs/nutrition-eng.pdf - Maternal and child undernutrition and overweight in low-income and middle-income countries. Robert E Black et al.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2960937-X - Essential Nutrition Actions: Improving maternal, newborn, infant and young child Nutrition. WHO paper
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2013/obesity_undernutrition_20130605/en/index.html - Children with disabilities. The State of the World’s Children, UNICEF 2013
http://www.unicef.org/sowc2013/report.html - Children with disabilities – invisible no more. Lancet editorial
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2961142-3/fulltext - Improvements in maternal health at risk because of data black hole. Liz Ford
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/may/28/maternal-health-data-black-hole#ixzz2UhqnbH00 - Women Deliver: Third global conference, 28-30 May 2013, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://www.womendeliver.org/conferences/2013-conference/ - Breaking down health data by ethnicity: Lively debate at Women Deliver conference. Sarah K Edwards
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sarah-k-edwards/breaking-down-health-data_b_3351790.html - The Lancet’s Women Deliver special issue highlights some of the latest research and views on maternal health
http://ow.ly/l7PMw - Gender and global health: evidence, policy, and inconvenient truths. Sarah Hawkes
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)60253-6/fulltext - Measuring coverage in maternal, newborn, and child health. PLOS collection
http://www.ploscollections.org/article/browse/issue/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fissue.pcol.v01.i16
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Equity and human right to health
Social determinants of health, Health in All Policies
Poverty and social protection
- The Helsinki Statement on Health in All Policies (International Conference on Health Promotion, June 2013)
http://www.healthpromotion2013.org/conference-programme/framework-and-statement - Promoting Health for All and social justice in the era of global capitalism. PHM call at the HIAP conference
http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/7640 - Health in All Policies conference put spotlight on corporate power as a health threat. M. Sweet
http://bit.ly/1aHhdUe - Evaluating Health in all Policies. Presentation by Fran Baum
http://de.slideshare.net/stmslide/helsinki-hall-tuesday1100-baum - Health promotion brief by WHO EURO
http://bit.ly/11YySzK - From Ottawa to Helsinki – the 8th global conference on health promotion. Fran Baum
http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2013/06/10/fran-baum-from-ottawa-to-helsinki-the-8th-global-conference-on-health-promotion/ - Health in All Policies. 25 case studies
http://goo.gl/0fSox - Illicit financial flows have made Africa ‘a net creditor to the world’. M. Tran
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2013/may/29/illicit-financial-flows-africa-creditor - Enabling pathways to health equity: Framework for implementing social capital in practice. Christine Putland et al.
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/13/517/abstract - Prioritizing health equity. Marmot/Allen in: Health in All Policies. Seizing opportunities, implementing policies
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/188809/Health-in-All-Policies-final.pdf
- Addressing inequities: From trickle-down to bubble-up. David Woodward
http://www.thebrokeronline.eu/Blogs/Spurring-economic-transition/From-trickle-down-to-bubble-up
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Global health governance and policy
- Health activism in a globalising era: lessons past for efforts future. Ronald Labonté
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)61429-4/fulltext - Good global health begins at home. Geneva Graduate Institute briefing paper
http://graduateinstitute.ch/webdav/site/globalhealth/shared/1894/Publications/policy-coherence-brief-v7%2020022013.pdf - Public and global engagement with global health. Peter Friberg et al.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2961206-4/fulltext - Understanding how and why health is integrated into foreign policy (UK case study). ML Gagnon and R Labonté
http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/9/1/24 - The neoliberal epidemic striking healthcare. John Lister
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/john-lister/neoliberal-epidemic-striking-healthcare - How AIDS invented global health. Allan M. Brandt
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1305297 - The truth about global health (what a title!). Martin Drewry
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/martin-drewry/global-health-truth-_b_3331017.html - The survival of “Global Health”: New global health architecture does not match its emerging mission. Laurie Garrett
http://lauriegarrett.com/blog/2013/5/23/the-survival-of-global-health- - The survival of “Global Health”: The future of funding. Laurie Garrett
https://lgarrett.squarespace.com/blog/2013/5/22/v2g06vzw590xhleqoevmfd2ri3gacg - Who Runs the Global Health World? (not women…) Victoria Fan
http://www.cgdev.org/blog/who-runs-global-health-world - Unhealthy health governance. Ravi Duggal
http://www.epw.in/book-reviews/unhealthy-health-governance.html - Globalization and national policy space for health. Koivusalo et al. in: Health in All Policies (May 2013, pdf)
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/188809/Health-in-All-Policies-final.pdf - The changing landscape of global health diplomacy. CSIS Global Health Policy Center, April 2013
http://csis.org/publication/changing-landscape-global-health-diplomacy - Emergence of multilateral proto-institutions in global health and new approaches to governance. EJ Gómez and R Atun
http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/9/1/18/abstract
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Framework Convention on Global Health
- Realizing the right to health through a Framework Convention on Global Health? Themed issue of HHR journal
http://www.hhrjournal.org - Towards a Framework Convention on Global Health. Anna Malavisi
http://www.hhrjournal.org/2013/06/13/towards-a-framework-convention-on-global-health/ - Will the struggle for health equity and social justice be best served by a FCGH? Leigh Haynes et al. £
http://www.hhrjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2013/06/Haynes-FINAL.pdf - Dark sides of the proposed FCGH’s many virtues: A systematic review and critical analysis. Steven J. Hoffman and John-Arne Røttingen
http://www.hhrjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2013/06/Hoffman.pdf - Reinvigorating the Right to Health through a Framework Convention on Global Health. Eric A Friedman
http://e.itg.be/ihp/archives/reinvigorating-health-framework-convention-global-health/
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Health beyond 2015, MDGs and SDGs
- Report of the High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post2015 Development Agenda
http://www.un.org/sg/management/beyond2015.shtml - Action Agenda for Sustainable Development. Report for UNSG, by Sustainable Development Solutions Network
http://unsdsn.org/2013/06/06/action-agenda-sustainable-development-report/ - AIDS governance for post-2015 world. Sidibé/Buse introduce the Lancet/UNAIDS commission “From AIDS to sustainable health”
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2961413-0/fulltext - UNAIDS/Lancet “bring together political and health leaders to shape debate on future of global health”
http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementarchive/2013/june/20130619prunaids-lancet/ - UN-NGLS consultation: Critical analysis from civil society on four #post2015 reports submitted to the UNSG
http://www.worldwewant2015.org/nglsconsultation - Post2015 – quo vadis? Map for the process is a scenic route through partly unknown territory. Bernadette Fischler
http://cafodpolicy.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/post-2015-quo-vadis/
- Civil society statements in response to post2015 HLP report – UN NGLS compilation
http://ow.ly/lSm10 - Ensuring healthy lives after 2015. Richard Horton
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2961168-X/fulltext - Why is Universal Health Coverage out of the post2015 goals? Abiodun Awosusi
http://uhcforward.org/blog/2013/jun/3/why-uhc-out-post-2015-goals - Positioning and role of health to advance the UN development agenda post2015. Foreign Policy and Global Health Group
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2813%2960952-6/fulltext
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World Health Assembly 2013
WHO reform
- The 66th World Health Assembly: Re-enforcing WHO’s role in global health? Remco van de Pas
http://shar.es/wHy6O - Investing in WHO. Briefing for first WHO financing dialogue.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/2013/financing_brochure_20130620.pdf - Reforming WHO: Progress to date in restructuring global health’s foremost Institution. Kamradt-Scott / Sangiorgio
http://www.ghd-net.org/sites/default/files/HDM%20V4%20I4.pdf - WHO gets a grip on budget. Reforms increase flexibility, shift spending towards NCD. Declan Butler
http://www.nature.com/news/agency-gets-a-grip-on-budget-1.13134 - WHO watch at 66th World Health Assembly: comments on the agenda, daily summaries, statements
http://www.ghwatch.org/whowatch/wha66 - Margaret Chan: opening address to the 66th World Health Assembly
http://goo.gl/15UY4 - WHO governance reform: Report by the Secretariat
http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB133/B133_16-en.pdf - WHO reform and global health governance. Inputs from a DGH briefing on 7 May 2013
http://bit.ly/who-civilsociety
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Debates: Development Assistance, NGOs
- Contraceptives, vaccines and … advocacy? David J. Olson on “implementing” NGOs and advocacy
http://www.smartglobalhealth.org/blog/entry/contraceptives-vaccines-and-advocacy/ - Blood, aid & sustainability: The case of HIV in Peru. Ana Amaya
http://e.itg.be/ihp/archives/blood-aid-sustainability-case-hiv-peru/ - Global health is the objective – is health aid the answer? Sigrun Møgedal
http://tidsskriftet.no/article/3023149/en_GB - Alone we go faster, together we go further: Communities of practice in support of access to health care
http://bit.ly/12kJwjx - Can international civil society organizations be nimble? Linda Raftree
http://lindaraftree.com/2013/06/12/can-international-civil-society-organizations-be-nimble/ - Alliance between GlaxoSmithKline and Save the Children: Charity and Big Pharma make uneasy bedfellows
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/10/gsk-save-the-children-aids-drugs-africa
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Other topics
- World Health Statistics 2013. By WHO Global Health Observatory
http://www.who.int/gho/publications/world_health_statistics/2013/en/index.html - World Population Prospects, the 2012 Revision. By UN DESA
http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm - Grand challenges in global mental health: conclusion of a 5-part series in PLOS Medicine
http://blogs.plos.org/speakingofmedicine/2013/05/28/grand-challenges-in-global-mental-health-conclusion-of-a-5-part-series/ - Addressing NCDs: is it really a global coalition? RM Carrillo-Larco et al.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)61242-8/fulltext
– and authors’ reply: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)61243-X/fulltext - Progress on sanitation and drinking-water 2013 update. By Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/2013/jmp_report/en/index.html - 2.4 billion people will lack improved sanitation in 2015. World will miss MDG target. WHO Note for media
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2013/sanitation_mdg_20130513/en/index.html
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