Health, Education, Social Protection News & Notes 04/2010

Health, Education, Social Protection
News & Notes 04/2010

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21 February 2010
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Table of Contents:
BOOKS ................................................................................ 4
The White House and the World ............................................................................................. 4
Education under Attack 2010 .................................................................................................. 4
Developing Adult Literacy: Approaches to Planning, Implementing and Delivering Literacy
Initiatives ................................................................................................................................. 4
Nordic health care systems: Recent reforms and current policy challenges .......................... 5
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS .................................................... 5

HIV - AIDS - STI ........................................................................................................... 5
Key Strengths of Round 8 and 9 Proposals to the Global Fund ............................................. 5
HIV and infant feeding: Revised Principles and Recommendations....................................... 5
Key Facts of the South African National Communication Survey on HIV/AIDS, 2009 ........... 6
HIV Journal View: Top 10 HIV Clinical Developments of 2009............................................... 6
The HIV-exposed, uninfected African child ............................................................................. 6
A Handbook on Best Practices Regarding HIV and AIDS for People with Disabilities ........... 6
Girls’ Success: Mentoring Guide about HIV and AIDS ........................................................... 7
Transforming the National AIDS Response ............................................................................ 7
Sexual & Reproductive Health ..................................................................................... 7
A Guide to Tools for Assessments in Sexual and Reproductive Health ................................. 7
International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education: An evidence-informed approach
for schools, teachers and health educators ............................................................................ 8
UNFPA Guidance Note on Prenatal Sex Selection ................................................................ 8
Sex work and the 2010 FIFA World Cup: time for public health imperatives to prevail .......... 8
Promoting Sexual Health for Young People in Kenya ............................................................ 9
Happy, healthy and hot ........................................................................................................... 9
Gender-related Barriers to HIV Prevention Methods: A Review of Post-exposure
Prophylaxis (PEP) Policies for Sexual Assault........................................................................ 9
Maternal & Child Health ............................................................................................. 10
Method of delivery and pregnancy outcomes in Asia: the WHO global survey on maternal
and perinatal health 2007-08 ................................................................................................ 10
New paradigm old thinking: the case for emergency obstetric care in the prevention of
maternal mortality in Nigeria ................................................................................................. 10
Newborn-Care Training and Perinatal Mortality in Developing Countries ............................ 10
Malaria........................................................................................................................ 11
Control of pyrethroid and DDT-resistant Anopheles gambiae by application of indoor
residual spraying or mosquito nets treated with a long-lasting organophosphate insecticide,
chlorpyrifos-methyl ................................................................................................................ 11
Developing Global Maps of the Dominant Anopheles Vectors of Human Malaria................ 11
History of the discovery of the malaria parasites and their vectors....................................... 11
Tuberculosis ............................................................................................................... 12
The tuberculosis challenge in a rural South African HIV programme ................................... 12
TB treatment initiation and adherence in a South African community influenced more by
perceptions than by knowledge of tuberculosis .................................................................... 12
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Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Smear-Positive Tuberculosis Treatment by Health Extension
Workers in Southern Ethiopia: A Community Randomized Trial .......................................... 12
Other Infectious Diseases .......................................................................................... 13
Antimicrobial treatment for early, limited Mycobacterium ulcerans infection: a randomised
controlled trial ........................................................................................................................ 13
Of Cattle, Sand Flies and Men: A Systematic Review of Risk Factor Analyses for South
Asian Visceral Leishmaniasis and Implications for Elimination............................................. 13
Ending the Neglect of Neglected Tropical Diseases............................................................. 13
Essential Medicines.................................................................................................... 14
Survey of the Quality of Selected Antimalarial Medicines Circulating in Madagascar,
Senegal, and Uganda............................................................................................................ 14
WHO monographs on selected medicinal plants - Volume 4................................................ 14
Measuring Transparency in the Public Pharmaceutical Sector ............................................ 14
Dangerous medicines: Unproven AIDS cures and counterfeit antiretroviral drugs............... 15
Consultation Draft Report of the Drug Resistance Working Group....................................... 15
Social Security............................................................................................................ 16
A social pension in Zambia: Perceptions of the cash transfer pilot in Katete ....................... 16
Assessing Administrative Capacity and Costs of Cash Transfer Schemes in Zambia -
Implications for Rollout .......................................................................................................... 16
Welfare, inequality and financial consequences of a multi-pillar pension system. A reform in
Peru ....................................................................................................................................... 16
Social Protection in South Asia: A review ............................................................................. 17
Human Resources...................................................................................................... 17
The IMF, the Global Crisis and Human Resources for Health.............................................. 17
Report on the second expert consultation on increasing access to health workers in remote
and rural areas through improved retention .......................................................................... 17
Guide for in-country discussions on Human Resources for Health - Based on for “Quest for
Quality” .................................................................................................................................. 18
Health Systems & Research ...................................................................................... 18
Vouchers as demand side financing instruments for health care: A review of the Bangladesh
maternal voucher scheme ..................................................................................................... 18
Scaling up in international health: what are the key issues? ................................................ 18
Guidance for Developers of Health Research Reporting Guidelines.................................... 19
Primary Health Care in the 21st century: primary care providers & people's empowerment19
What is the way forward for health in Zimbabwe? ................................................................ 19
Information & Communication Technology ................................................................ 20
Finding Information in Medicine & Health - A Sourcebook ................................................... 20
Mobile phones for health: high hopes but research lacking.................................................. 20
The Best and Worst Online Project Management Applications ............................................ 20
Education ................................................................................................................... 20
Transforming Policy and Practice for Gender in Education .................................................. 20
Reviving the Global Education Compact: Four Options for Global Education Funding........ 21
Education’s Hardest Test: Scaling up Aid in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States ............... 21
Training teachers in an HIV and AIDS context: Experiences from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda
and Zambia ........................................................................................................................... 21
The response of teacher training institutions to HIV and AIDS............................................. 22
Practising Gender Equality in Education............................................................................... 22
Millennium Development Goals.................................................................................. 22
The World’s Most Deprived ................................................................................................... 22
Progress towards the achievement of MDG4 in the Commonwealth of Independent States:
uncertain data, clear priorities ............................................................................................... 23
Achieving the MDGs in an Era of Global Uncertainty: Asia-Pacific Regional Report 2009/10
............................................................................................................................................... 23
Guide to the new Millennium Development Goals Employment indicators: including the full
decent work indicator set....................................................................................................... 23
Development Assistance............................................................................................ 24
Aid Allocation by German NGOs: Does the Degree of Public Refinancing Matter? ............. 24
New Challenges, New Beginnings: Next Steps in European Development Cooperation..... 24
How the European Commission can take the lead in providing high-quality budget support
for education and health........................................................................................................ 24
Others......................................................................................................................... 25

Health for All Medical Glossary in English, Spanish, Kreyòl and French.............................. 25
Gender, Climate Change and Health .................................................................................... 25
The State of the Humanitarian System: Assessing Performance and Progress - A Pilot
Study ..................................................................................................................................... 25
Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air....................................................................................................... 26
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES ............................................ 26

Innovation Flash - The Newsletter of the Microinsurance Innovation Facility, Issue 5,
February 2010 ....................................................................................................................... 26
New Publication: MicroRisk-Insurance and Finance for a Developing World....................... 26
Southern Med Review - Volume 3, Issue 1, February 2010 ................................................. 26
Journal of Primary Care & Community Health ...................................................................... 27
INTERESTING WEB SITES .............................................. 27

INFORM - International Network for Online Resources and Materials ................................. 27
Implementing Best Practice (IBP) Knowledge Gateway ....................................................... 27
Global Health Education Consortium .................................................................................... 27
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES............................................ 28
Public Health Sciences for Human Security.......................................................................... 28
Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Disease Control Programmes.................. 28
Addressing the Sexual Vulnerability of Young Women in Africa........................................... 28
CONFERENCES................................................................ 29
AidData Conference .............................................................................................................. 29
CARTOON ......................................................................... 29
TIPS & TRICKS ................................................................. 29

Google Buzz.......................................................................................................................... 29
Free PC to Phone Calls to 8 countries.................................................................................. 30
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BOOKS
The White House and the World
A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President
by Nancy Birdsall, (Editor)

Center for Global Development, August 2008
386 pp. 4.6 MB:

http://www.cgdev.org/files/16560_file_White_House_and_the_World.pdf
Each day brings fresh evidence that Americans’ well-being is linked to the lives of others
around the world as never before. Accelerating advances in technology and the creation
of new knowledge offer undreamed-of opportunities. Yet global poverty, inequality, dis-
ease, and the threat of rapid climate change threaten our hopes. How will the next U.S.
president tackle these global challenges?
***
Education under Attack 2010
by Brendan O’Malley
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) February 2010
243 pp. 3.4 MB:

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900sid/EGUA-
82LSSY/$file/unesco-education-under-attack-feb10.pdf?openelement
This book’s findings are disturbing. The sheer volume of attacks on education docu-
mented demonstrates that the demolition of schools and assassination of students and
teachers is by no means limited to supporters of the Taliban fighting in the hills of Af-
ghanistan. Education has been attacked in at least 31 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe
and Latin America over the past three years.
***
Developing Adult Literacy: Approaches to Planning, Implementing and De-

livering Literacy Initiatives
by Juliet McCaffery, Juliet Merrifield and Juliet Millican

Oxfam GB, 2007
301 pp. 1.2 MB:

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/downloads/AdultLit_wholebook.pdf
There are many different ways to manage adult literacy programmes. This book will help
those who plan and develop literacy initiatives make their decisions based on an under-
standing of ideas, values, and principles. It explains how to take into account the local
context, and the purposes of learners, the local community, and other key stakeholders.
***

Nordic health care systems: Recent reforms and current policy challenges
Edited by Jon Magnussen, Karsten Vrangbaek and Richard B. Saltman

World Health Organization on behalf of the European Observatory on
Health Systems and Policies, May 2009
362 pp. 4.7 MB:

http://www.euro.who.int/document/e93429.pdf
This new comparative study, which also assesses the influence of the European Union
on the Nordic health systems, highlights how the Nordic countries have retained the
principles of universalism and equity while promoting the benefits of patient choice.
These insights will be a welcome addition for health sector policy-makers and for stu-
dents of health policy, not just in the Nordic countries but across Europe.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
HIV - AIDS - STI
Key Strengths of Round 8 and 9 Proposals to the Global Fund
by David Garmaise
An Aidspan Report, 31 January 2010
50 pp. 486 kB:

http://aidspan.org/documents/aidspan/aidspan-rounds-8-and-9-strengths-report-en.pdf
The purpose of this report is to provide information to Global Fund applicants on key at-
tributes of a strong proposal. The report is based on an analysis of the strengths of all
approved Round 8 and 9 proposals, as identified by the Technical Review Panel (TRP)
when it reviewed the proposals. This report is also available in French, Spanish and
Russian at: http://www.aidspan.org/index.php?page=aidspanpublications
***
HIV and infant feeding: Revised Principles and Recommendations
The Guideline Development Group, World Health Organization, Novem-

ber 2009
30 pp. 267 kB:

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241598873_eng.pdf
This document includes key principles and recommendations that are directed towards
policymakers, academics and health workers. The new recommendations call for earlier
initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for adults and adolescents, the delivery of more
patient-friendly antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), and prolonged use of ARVs to reduce the
risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV. And, for the first time, WHO recommends
that HIV-positive mothers or their infants take ARVs while breastfeeding to prevent
transmission.
***

Key Facts of the South African National Communication Survey on
HIV/AIDS, 2009
South African Department of Health, January 2010
6 pp. 387 kB:

http://www.jhhesa.org/docs/NCS_fact_sheet_220110.pdf
PowerPoint Presentation (53 pp. 748 kB):

http://www.jhhesa.org/docs/NCS_Overview_Presentation_%20Jan%2025_v2.pptx
HIV/AIDS communication programmes in South Africa are successfully influencing peo-

ple to have safer sexual relationships - and the more programmes to which people are
exposed, the more they take heed. This is the conclusion of the second National Com-
munication Survey on HIV/AIDS 2009. Overall, the country’s HIV/AIDS communication
programmes are working - and they are having a positive impact particularly with youth,
on the levels of condom usage, HIV testing, and knowledge of the risks of having multi-
ple sexual partners.
***
HIV Journal View: Top 10 HIV Clinical Developments of 2009
by David Alain Wohl

The Body Pro, 4 February, 2010
Read online at: http://www.thebodypro.com/content/art55324.html?ts=pf
In the world of HIV/AIDS, no major developments could truly qualify as a breakthrough.

Indeed, most of the important advances reported during the past year were leftovers
from 2008. Detailed in this article are major HIV/AIDS-related stories of 2009. A fitting ti-
tle for the events of the past year would be "HIV in the Time of the Great Recession." It’s
not pretty, but neither was 2009.
***
The HIV-exposed, uninfected African child
by Suzanne Filteau
Tropical Medicine & International Health, Vol. 14, Issue 3, pp. 276-287, March 2009
12 pp. 176 kB:

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121644627/PDFSTART
The increasing success of prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programmes

means that in Africa, very large numbers of HIV-exposed, uninfected (HIV-EU) children
are being born. Any health problems that these children may have will thus be of enor-
mous public health importance, but to date have been largely neglected. A broad ap-
proach for psychosocial support of HIV-affected families is needed to improve health of
HIV-EU children. High quality programmatic research is needed to determine how to de-
liver such care.
***
A Handbook on Best Practices Regarding HIV and AIDS for People with
Disabilities
Services - Policy Advocacy - Programming
by Sarah Nduta, Carol Ajema, Washington Opiyo et al.

VSO's Right to Life Programme, 2009
80 pp. 3.3 MB:

http://www.vso.org.uk/Images/hiv-aids-and-disabilities-
handbook_tcm79-25401.pdf
People with Disabilities (PWD) have an increased vulnerability to

HIV/AIDS. There is need to approach the HIV/AIDS pandemic as a de-
velopmental challenge that demand multifaceted, concerted and strategically designed
responses. The documentation of best practices demonstrates that with technical sup-
port, systematic and consultative engagement of PWD and their organizations positive
results can be achieved.
***
Girls’ Success: Mentoring Guide about HIV and AIDS
by Stephanie Psaki, Andrea Bertone, Kaaren Christopherson et al.

Academy for Educational Development (AED), 2009
86 pp. 6.1 MB:

http://aed.org/Publications/loader.cfm?url=/commonspot/security/
getfile.cfm&pageid=35195
This series of Girls’ Success Mentoring Guides serve as road maps for mentors. They
provide ideas for helping girls as they go through school and become young adults. The
Guides are not meant to be read from start to finish. Instead, they are meant to be read
between mentoring sessions to help your planning. They are meant to give you basic in-
formation to share with girls, but just as importantly, to give you ideas about how to talk
with girls about issues that are important to them.
***
Transforming the National AIDS Response

Mainstreaming Gender Equality and Women’s Human Rights into the “Three Ones”
by Patricia Made, Nazneen Damji, Nazneen Damji et al.

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), 2008
52 pp. 1.1 MB:

http://www.unifem.org/attachments/products/TransformingTheNati
onalAIDSResponse_eng.pdf
This resource guide highlights strategies to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS that ensure that
gender equality is promoted and protected as a key element. It also outlines tools,
checklists and guidelines on how to conduct gender and human rights audits and analy-
ses to inform HIV/AIDS policies, frameworks and their implementation.
Sexual & Reproductive Health
A Guide to Tools for Assessments in Sexual and Reproductive Health
Editors Nuriye Ortayli, Milen Beyene

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), January 2010

Read online at: http://mondesign.net/mondesign/UNFPA3/index.html
UNFPA has developed a guide to tools and successful methodologies

for Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) assessments. The authors
hope that it will be a useful aid to busy programme managers who need
to plan and conduct assessments in SRH; understand better the chal-
lenges facing them; plan interventions, and monitor and evaluate their
progress.
***
International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education: An evidence-

informed approach for schools, teachers and health educators
Volume 1: The rationale for sexuality education
by Mark Richmond, Chris Castle, Ekua Yankah et al.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO), December 2009
124 pp. 5.5 MB:

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/ulis/cgi-
bin/ExtractPDF.pl?catno=183281&look=default&ll=1&display=1&lang=e&from=1&to=124
Based on a rigorous and current review of evidence on sexuality education pro-

grammes, this Guidance on Sexuality Education has been produced to assist education,
health and other relevant authorities in the development and implementation of school-
based sexuality education programmes and materials. Volume I focuses on the rationale
for sexuality education and provides sound technical advice on characteristics of effec-
tive programmes.
***
UNFPA Guidance Note on Prenatal Sex Selection
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), 2010
13 pp. 420 kB:

http://www.unfpa.org/webdav/site/global/shared/documents/publications/2010/gui
denote_prenatal_sexselection.pdf
Sex selection - in particular, the deliberate elimination of girls and women through abor-
tion, infanticide and neglect - has historically resulted in severely skewed population sex
ratios in a number of countries, especially in Asia. Over the last 15 years, UNFPA has
been engaged in bringing attention to the issue - starting in China and India but now
also in other countries - and is working with sister agencies such as WHO, UNICEF,
OHCHR and UNIFEM in addressing it.
***
Sex work and the 2010 FIFA World Cup: time for public health imperatives
to prevail
by Marlise L Richter, Matthew F Chersich, Fiona Scorgie et al.

Globalization and Health 2010, 6:1 (11 February 2010)

19 pp. 207 kB:
http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/pdf/1744-8603-6-1.pdf
The 2010 FIFA World Cup presents a strategic opportunity for South Africa to respond
to the challenges that the sex industry poses in a strategic and rights-based manner.
Public health goals and growing evidence on HIV prevention suggest that sex work is
best approached in a context where it is decriminalised and where sex workers are em-
powered.
***
Promoting Sexual Health for Young People in Kenya
by Jerusha Ouma and Anke van der Kwaak

Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), The Population Council Nairobi Office,
Family Health Options Kenya, 2009
148 pp. 6.4 MB:

http://www.kit.nl/net/KIT_Publicaties_output/ShowFile2.aspx?e=1623
This report assesses the quality of sexuality counselling services provided by Family
Health Options Kenya (FHOK) in the context of their sexual and reproductive health
(SRH) services for young people. The report describes the content of sexuality counsel-
ling interventions offered and how it has been integrated into the broader SRH pro-
gramme. The study also documents the broader service delivery environment, including
the socio-cultural context and managerial context in which the counselling is provided.
***
Happy, healthy and hot
by Lia De Pauw, Alex McClelland, Adam Garner et al.

International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), 2009
20 pp. 2.4 MB:

http://www.ippf.org/NR/rdonlyres/B4462DDE-487D-4194-B0E0-
193A04095819/0/HappyHealthyHot.pdf
Young people living with HIV may feel that sex is just not an option, but this need not be
the case. This guide is designed to support young people living with HIV to increase
sexual pleasure, improve health, and develop strong intimate relationships. It explores
how human rights and sexual well-being are related and suggests strategies to help
them make decisions about dating, relationships, sex and parenthood.
***
Gender-related Barriers to HIV Prevention Methods: A Review of Post-

exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) Policies for Sexual Assault
by Britt Herstad
Health Policy Initiative, Task Order 1; November 2009
44 pp. 912 kB:

http://www.healthpolicyinitiative.com/Publications/Documents/102
1_1_PEP_report_FINAL_1_26_10_acc.pdf
This report reviews Post-exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) policies for sexual assault. Institu-

tions and programs should consider the gender barriers explored in this review when
creating new PEP guidelines and, where current guidelines do exist, they should imple-
ment protocols and procedures to ensure that they address such barriers. By doing so,
PEPFAR focus countries will be better positioned to increase access to high-quality PEP
services for sexual assault survivors.
Maternal & Child Health
Method of delivery and pregnancy outcomes in Asia: the WHO global sur-
vey on maternal and perinatal health 2007-08
by Pisake Lumbiganon, Malinee Laopaiboon, A Metin Gülmezoglu et al.

The Lancet, Vol. 375, Issue 9713, pp. 490-499, 6 February 2010
10 pp. 191 kB:

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673609618705.pdf?i
d=3d35b1b5aa0ec416:5833cf1d:126a4c0e0eb:26d21265487714970
There has been concern about rising rates of caesarean section worldwide. This article
reports the third phase of the WHO global survey, which aimed to estimate the rate of
different methods of delivery and to examine the relation between method of delivery
and maternal and perinatal outcomes in selected facilities in Africa and Latin America.
The authors conclude that in order to improve maternal and perinatal outcomes, cae-
sarean section should be done only when there is a medical indication.
***
New paradigm old thinking: the case for emergency obstetric care in the
prevention of maternal mortality in Nigeria
by Kayode T Ijadunola, Macellina Y Ijadunola, Olapeju A Esimai et al.

BMC Women's Health 2010, 10:6 (17 February 2010)
25 pp. 165 kB:

http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6874-10-6.pdf
The continuing burden of maternal mortality, especially in developing countries has

prompted a shift in paradigm from the traditional risk assessment approach to the provi-
sion of access to emergency obstetric care services for all women who are pregnant.
This study assessed the knowledge of maternity unit operatives at the primary and sec-
ondary levels of care about the concept of emergency obstetric care (EmOC) and inves-
tigated the contents of antenatal care counselling services they delivered to clients. It
also describes the operatives’ preferred strategies and practices for promoting safe
motherhood and averting maternal mortality in South-west Nigeria.
***
Newborn-Care Training and Perinatal Mortality in Developing Countries
by Waldemar A. Carlo, Shivaprasad S. Goudar, Imtiaz Jehan et al.

N Engl J Med 362;7 - February 18, 2010
10 pp. 375 kB:

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/362/7/614.pdf

Of the 3.7 million neonatal deaths and 3.3 million stillbirths each year, 98% occur in de-
veloping countries. An evaluation of community-based interventions designed to reduce
the number of these deaths is described. The rate of neonatal death in the 7 days after
birth did not decrease after the introduction of Essential Newborn Care training of com-
munity-based birth attendants, although the rate of stillbirths was reduced. Subsequent
training in the Neonatal Resuscitation Program did not significantly reduce the mortality
rates.
Malaria
Control of pyrethroid and DDT-resistant Anopheles gambiae by application

of indoor residual spraying or mosquito nets treated with a long-lasting
organophosphate insecticide, chlorpyrifos-methyl
by Raphael N'Guessan, Pelagie Boko, Abibathou Odjo et al.

Malaria Journal 2010, 9:44 (8 February 2010)
27 pp. 355 kB:

http://www.malariajournal.com/content/pdf/1475-2875-9-44.pdf
Chlorpyrifos methyl microencapsulated formulation (CS) was tested as an indoor resid-

ual spraying (IRS) or insecticidal treated net (ITN) treatment in experimental huts in an
area of Benin where Anopheles gambiae and Culex quinquefasiactus are resistant to
pyrethroids, but susceptible to organophosphates. As an IRS treatment against pyre-
throid resistant mosquitoes chlorpyrifos methyl CS outperformed DDT and lambdacy-
halothrin. The remarkable residual activity indicates that cost-effective alternatives to
DDT are feasible through modern formulation technology.
***
Developing Global Maps of the Dominant Anopheles Vectors of Human Ma-

laria
by Simon I. Hay, Marianne E. Sinka, Robi M. Okara et al.

PLoS Med 7(2): e1000209 (9 February 2010)
6 pp. 123 kB:

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/fetchObjectAttachment.action;jsessionid=339A87274D2365F6B
95DD9B301FED8BB?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000209&representation=PDF
The ability to provide strategic, evidence-based advice for malaria control programmes
remains constrained by the lack of range maps of the dominant Anopheles vectors. The
authors describe how the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) has collated anopheline occur-
rence data to map the geographic distributions of the dominant mosquito vectors of hu-
man malaria. The plans for, and progress of, this initiative are described here.
***
History of the discovery of the malaria parasites and their vectors
by Francis E G Cox
Parasites & Vectors 2010, 3:5 (1 February 2010)

31 pp. 310 kB:
http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/pdf/1756-3305-3-5.pdf
Our understanding of the malaria parasites begins in 1880 with the discovery of the
parasites in the blood of malaria patients. This article traces the main events and
stresses the importance of comparative studies in that, apart from the initial discovery of
parasites in the blood, every subsequent discovery has been based on studies on non-
human malaria parasites and related organisms.
Tuberculosis
The tuberculosis challenge in a rural South African HIV programme
by Catherine F Houlihan, Portia C Mutevedzi, Richard J Lessells et al.

BMC Infectious Diseases 2010, 10:23(10 February 2010)
25 pp. 383 kB:

South Africa remains the country with the greatest burden of HIV-infected individuals
and the second highest estimated TB incidence per capita worldwide. Within South Af-
rica, KwaZulu-Natal has one of the highest rates of TB incidence and an emerging epi-
demic of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Rate of incident TB in this population stabilises at a
rate higher than that of the overall population. These data highlight the need for greater
research on strategies for active case finding in rural settings and the need to focus on
strengthening primary health care.
***
TB treatment initiation and adherence in a South African community influ-

enced more by perceptions than by knowledge of tuberculosis
by Jane M Cramm, Harry JM Finkenflugel, Valerie Moller and Anna P Nieboer

BMC Public Health 2010, 10:72 (17 February 2010)
18 pp. 168 kB:

Tuberculosis (TB) is a global health concern. Inadequate case finding and case holding
has been cited as major barrier to the control of TB. The TB literature is written almost
entirely from a biomedical perspective, while recent studies show that it is imperative to
understand lay perception to determine why people seek treatment and may stop taking
treatment. Future interventions should be directed at improving attitudes and percep-
tions to potentially reduce stigma. This requires a patient-centered approach to em-
power TB patients and active involvement in the development and implementation of
stigma reduction programs.
***
Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Smear-Positive Tuberculosis Treatment by

Health Extension Workers in Southern Ethiopia: A Community Randomized
Trial
by Daniel G. Datiko and Bernt Lindtjørn

PLoS ONE 5(2): e9158 (17 February 2010)

7 pp. 200 kB:
http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObjectAttachment.action;jsessionid=5453FBA571EDDE5D008F
2D420E5DC90F?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0009158&representation=PDF
Community-based treatment by Health Extension Workers (HEWs) costs only 39% of

what treatment by general health workers costs for similar outcomes. Involving HEWs in
TB treatment is a cost effective treatment alternative to the health service, to the pa-
tients and the family. There is an economic and public health reason to consider involv-
ing HEWs in TB treatment in Ethiopia. However, community-based treatment requires
initial investment to start its implementation, training and supervision.
Other Infectious Diseases
Antimicrobial treatment for early, limited Mycobacterium ulcerans infec-

tion: a randomised controlled trial
by Willemien A Nienhuis, Ymkje Stienstra, William A Thompson et al.

The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 4 February 2010
Read abstract at:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2809%2961962-
0/fulltext?_eventId=login
Surgical debridement was the standard treatment for Mycobacterium ulcerans infection
(Buruli ulcer disease) until WHO issued provisional guidelines in 2004 recommending
treatment with antimicrobial drugs (streptomycin and rifampicin) in addition to surgery.
The authors investigated the efficacy of two regimens of antimicrobial treatment in M.
ulcerans infection and conclude that antimycobacterial treatment is effective in early,
limited disease.
***
Of Cattle, Sand Flies and Men: A Systematic Review of Risk Factor Analy-
ses for South Asian Visceral Leishmaniasis and Implications for Elimina-
tion
by Caryn Bern, Orin Courtenay, Jorge Alvar

PLoS Negl Trop Dis 4(2): e599 (9 February 2010)
9 pp. 235 kB:

http://www.plosntds.org/article/fetchObjectAttachment.action;jsessionid=8EB3338FA882A53190F5
B63AF084B809?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0000599&representation=PDF
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a potentially deadly parasitic disease that affects 200,000
to 300,000 people per year in the Indian subcontinent, where an effort is currently un-
derway to eliminate the disease. Studies performed over the past decade have identi-
fied fairly consistent epidemiological patterns of risk factors for VL. Carefully designed
demonstration projects, taking into account the complex web of interconnected risk fac-
tors, are needed to provide direct proof of principle for elimination and to identify the
most effective maintenance activities.
***
Ending the Neglect of Neglected Tropical Diseases
By Richard Skolnik and Ambareen Ahmed

Population Reference Bureau, Policy Brief, February 2010

6 pp. 322 kB:
http://www.prb.org/pdf10/neglectedtropicaldiseases.pdf
Despite their significance, relatively little financial support has been provided to address
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), compared to the burden of ill health that they
cause. A “rapid-impact package” of four drugs is available that can simultaneously treat
the seven most common NTDs for between 40 cents and 80 cents per person per year.
Given the exceptional amount of good health that can be gained in the fight against
NTDs for such a small amount of money, an important global challenge is to spread the
rapid-impact package as fast as possible to all places where it can be of benefit.
Essential Medicines
Survey of the Quality of Selected Antimalarial Medicines Circulating in

Madagascar, Senegal, and Uganda
United States Pharmacopeia (USP) and World Health Organization, November (WHO),
November 2009
50 pp. 833 kB:

http://groups.google.com/group/health-education-social-protection-news-
notes/web/QAMSA%20Report-Final%20Jan%2029%202010.pdf
The study reveals a high failure rate among sampled antimalarials in all three countries,
based on quality control laboratory testing. The tests - performed by the respective
country partners - documented a sizeable proportion of sampled antimalarial medicines
failing to meet quality tests: 44% of samples in Senegal failed to meet specific quality
standards. The corresponding failure rates in Madagascar and Uganda were 30% and
26% respectively. These findings present an opportunity for the countries to take tar-
geted corrective actions, to continue to strengthen their quality assurance systems, and
to close loopholes that may exist in their current regulatory framework.
***
WHO monographs on selected medicinal plants - Volume 4
by Norman R. Farnsworth, Harry H.S. Fong, Gail B. Mahady et al.

World Health Organization, November 2009
456 pp. 4.9 MB:

http://www.who.int/entity/medicines/areas/traditional/SelectMonoV
ol4.pdf
This monograph on selected medicinal plants describes their quality control and use. It
contains two parts: the first provides pharmacopoeial summaries for quality assurance
purposes; and the second describes the clinical applications of the plant material.
***
Measuring Transparency in the Public Pharmaceutical Sector

Assessment Instrument
by Guitelle Baghdadi-Sabeti, Jillian Clare Cohen-Kohler and Eshetu Wondemagegnehu

World Health Organization, Departments of Essential Medicines and
Pharmaceutical Policies & Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights,
2009
196 pp. 1.4 MB:

http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/policy/goodgovernance/Asse
ssmentInstrumentMeastranspENG.PDF
More than US$ 3 trillion is spent on health services each year. Such substantial funds
are an obvious target for abuse. The Good Governance for Medicines (GGM) pro-
gramme goal is to contribute to the health systems strengthening and prevent corruption
by promoting good governance in the pharmaceutical sector. The purpose of the na-
tional assessment is to provide countries with a comprehensive picture of the level of
transparency and potential vulnerability to corruption.
***
Dangerous medicines: Unproven AIDS cures and counterfeit antiretroviral

drugs
by Joseph J Amon
Globalization and Health 2008, 4:5 (27 February 2008)
10 pp. 320 kB:

http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/pdf/1744-8603-4-5.pdf
Anecdotal accounts suggest that the promotion of unproven AIDS ‘cures’ and remedies
are widespread, and in the case of The Gambia, Iran and South Africa, have been pro-
moted by governments directly. Countries, charged with fulfilling the right to health and
committed to expanding access to ART must explicitly recognize their obligation to
combat unproven AIDS treatments and ensure the availability of a safe and efficacious
drugs supply. International donors must help support and coordinate these efforts.
***
Consultation Draft Report of the Drug Resistance Working Group
The Center for Global Development’s Drug Resistance Working

Group, 2010
92 pp. 3.7 MB:

http://www.cgdev.org/doc/Working_Groups/Drug_Resistance_Consult-FINAL-print.pdf
The evidence cited in this report indicates that drug resistance is a large and growing
problem that contributes significantly to illness and death across the world. It has a par-
ticularly harsh impact on poor people in developing countries. Understanding how to
slow the emergence of drug resistance constitutes a vital, yet much underappreciated,
dimension of fulfilling the global commitment to ensure access to quality pharmaceutical
products.
***

Social Security
A social pension in Zambia: Perceptions of the cash transfer pilot in Katete
by Charles Knox
HelpAge International, 2009
8 pp. 446 kB:

http://www.helpage.org/Resources/Briefings/main_content/tRxz/Ka
tetePensionReport.pdf
The Government of Zambia, via its Ministry of Community Development and Social Ser-
vices (MCDSS), has been running a set of pilot cash transfers to test which could best
form the basis of a national social protection system. This brief outlines the perceptions
of recipients, their families and the community towards the pension, and the impacts
which have been observed on areas such as nutrition, health, education and the local
economy.
***
Assessing Administrative Capacity and Costs of Cash Transfer Schemes

in Zambia - Implications for Rollout
by Dennis Kaputo Chiwele

International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, February 2010
51 pp. 751 kB:

http://www.ipc-undp.org/pub/IPCCountryStudy20.pdf
The study provides an assessment of the capacity of government structures in Zambia

to implement a national social cash transfer scheme (SCTS). Thus far, social cash
transfer schemes are being piloted in five districts in Southern and Eastern Provinces.
This report presents findings of an assessment of the administrative capacity and costs
of cash transfer schemes in Zambia and their implications for the rollout.
***
Welfare, inequality and financial consequences of a multi-pillar pension

system. A reform in Peru
by Javier Olivera
Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), January 2010
28 pp. 981 kB:

http://www.ecineq.org/milano/WP/ECINEQ2010-152.pdf
Peru created the Private Pension system (SPP) in 1993, without dismantling its old de-
fined benefit system (the National Pension System, SNP). However, members of the
SPP (those who previously belonged to the SNP) realised that the expected or already
received benefits in the SPP were lower than those in the SNP. In order to correct
these effects, there have been many costly adjustments in the pension system.
***

Social Protection in South Asia: A review
by Naila Kabeer
Center for Social Protection, August 2009
42 pp. 578 kB:

http://www.ids.ac.uk/download.cfm?objectid=4A133655-DFC1-
3023-343B245F6BB719EE
This paper provides an overview of social protection strategies in the South Asian con-
text, focusing on Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka which together ac-
count for over 95% of the region’s population. It discusses the relationship between
economic growth and social development in these countries and their past efforts to
deal with poverty and vulnerability. It reviews some of the key interventions in the field of
social protection within the different countries and draws out a number of issues that
bear on the future evolution of these strategies.
Human Resources
The IMF, the Global Crisis and Human Resources for Health
by Fabien Lefrançois
Action for Global Health UK and the Stop AIDS Campaign
February 2010
33 pp. 1.0 MB:

http://www.actionforglobalhealth.eu/content/download/43485/2118
48/file/IMF_Paper10Reduced.pdf
This report seeks to assess whether IMF claims of greater flexibility translate into con-
crete changes and whether this, along with other factors, has helped create enough
space for countries to scale up health interventions and train, hire and retain adequate
numbers of health professionals to meet their needs.
***
Report on the second expert consultation on increasing access to health

workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention
29 June to 1 July 2009 - Geneva, Switzerland

World Health Organization 2009
38 pp. 420 kB:

http://www.who.int/hrh/events/report_second_full_expert_meeting.pdf
In February 2009 WHO launched a new programme to increase access to health work-
ers in remote and rural areas through improved retention. The programme is an integral
part of WHO’s renewed efforts to strengthen health systems through a primary health-
care approach. The evidence-based recommendations, which are expected to be pub-
lished in May 2010, are being developed by a group of more than 30 international ex-
perts on health workforce rural retention. This report presents a synthesis of the presen-
tations and discussions held in plenary and working groups in the meeting.
***

Guide for in-country discussions on Human Resources for Health - Based
on for “Quest for Quality”
Cordaid and Royal Tropical Institute, The Netherlands, 2009
18 pp. 107 kB:

http://www.cordaidpartners.com/uploads/documents/860/original/
guide-for-in-country-discussions-on-hrh.pdf
“Quest for Quality” (116 pp. 2.5 MB) published in February 2009 pre-
sents and discusses a variety of experiences of faith-based organizations (FBOs) work-
ing in rural and remote areas of Anglophone Africa in dealing with human resources for
health (HRH). In order to facilitate the use of the cases presented in Quest for Quality, a
Guide to assist in structuring HRH discussion in order to come to appropriate solutions
has been developed. The guide is intended to be used in discussions among people
working in the field of HRH or who have tasks related to the management of health staff.
For those interested, Cordaid has a limited number of hard copies. Send a message to
ivb@cordaid.nl indicating how you intend to use the guidelines and they will send you a
copy by ordinary mail (do not forget to include your physical address).
Health Systems & Research
Vouchers as demand side financing instruments for health care: A review

of the Bangladesh maternal voucher scheme
by Jean-Olivier Schmidt, Tim Ensor, Atia Hossain, Salam Khan

Health Policy (2010), doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.01.008
10 pp. 777 kB:

http://groups.google.com/group/health-education-social-protection-
news-notes/web/Bangladesh-maternal-voucher-scheme.pdf
Demand side financing (DSF) mechanisms transfer purchasing power to specified

groups for defined goods and services in order to increase access to specified services.
This is an important innovation in health care systems where access remains poor de-
spite substantial subsidies towards the supply side. In Bangladesh, a maternal health
DSF pilot in 33 sub-districts was launched in 2007. The authors report the results of a
rapid review of this scheme undertaken during 2008 after 1 year of its setup.
***
Scaling up in international health: what are the key issues?
by Lindsay J Mangham and Kara Hanson

Health Policy and Planning 2010;25:85-96 (13 January 2010)
12 pp. 129 kB:

http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/25/2/85
The term ‘scaling up’ is now widely used in the international health literature, though it
lacks an agreed definition. The authors review what is meant by scaling up in the con-
text of changes in international health and development over the last decade. They ar-
gue that the notion of scaling up is primarily used to describe the ambition or process of

expanding the coverage of health interventions, though the term has also referred to in-
creasing the financial, human and capital resources required to expand coverage.
***
Guidance for Developers of Health Research Reporting Guidelines
by David Moher, Kenneth F. Schulz, Iveta Simera, Douglas G. Altman

PLoS Med 7(2): e1000217 (16 February 2010)
9 pp. 193 kB:

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/fetchObjectAttachment.action;jsessionid=909851C9FB60B0F64
5C884F104EDE967?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000217&representation=PDF
The EQUATOR (Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research) Net-
work is a new international initiative seeking to improve the quality of scientific publica-
tions by promoting transparent and accurate reporting. The Network
(http://www.equator-network.org) provides resources and training relating to the report-
ing of health research and assists in the development, dissemination, and implementa-
tion of reporting guidelines.
***
Primary Health Care in the 21st century: primary care providers & people's
empowerment
by Josefien van Olmen, Bart Criel, Narayanan Devadasan et al.

Tropical Medicine & International Health, (Published online 09 February
2010 in advance of print)
5 pp. 60 kB:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/123278382/PDFSTART
The events and publications surrounding the 30th anniversary of Alma Ata, the Primary
Health Care (PHC) illustrate the durability of PHC values such as equity, self-
determination, participation, trans-sectoral collaboration and the right to health. Taking
into account recent transitions that are changing the relationship between primary care
providers and their patients, the authors examine the role providers can play in enhanc-
ing people’s individual and collective empowerment, an important but rather neglected
component of PHC.
***
What is the way forward for health in Zimbabwe?
by Charles Todd, Sunanda Ray, Farai Madzimbamuto and David Sanders

The Lancet, Vol. 375, Issue 9714, pp. 606-609, 13 February 2010
4 pp. 71 kB:
http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673609614987.pdf?i
d=40bade4753939e7f:62ef586:126c2dd0449:-793b1265989772325
Zimbabwe’s once proud achievements in health have been undermined over the past
20 years by increasing poverty, bad governance, poor economic policies, widespread
HIV/AIDS, and a weakened health system. Since the 1980s, Zimbabweans have been
systematically deprived of human rights, including the right to health. A new opportunity
now exists to rebuild the health-care system; its success will be contingent on firmly re-
establishing the principles of social justice, equity, and public participation.

Information & Communication Technology
Finding Information in Medicine & Health - A Sourcebook
by Martha J Garrett
International Maternal and Child Health (IMCH), Department of

Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden,
September 2009
184 pp. 2.3 MB:

http://www.inform-
network.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=medicine_health_imch_oct_2009.pdf
This sourcebook has been prepared to support activities at International Maternal and
Child Health (IMCH), Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala Univer-
sity. It is meant primarily as a reference for master’s students who have begun their
studies at IMCH during the autumn term 2009 but is also designed to help other master
and doctoral students in the unit, as well as the IMCH researchers and teachers.
***
Mobile phones for health: high hopes but research lacking
by Tatum Anderson
TropIKA.net, 5 February 2010
Read online at:

http://www.tropika.net/svc/review/Anderson-20100205-Review-Mobile-Phones%5B1%5D
There is a lot of hype surrounding ‘mHealth’ - the use of mobile phones in health care -
but where is the evidence that it works?
***
The Best and Worst Online Project Management Applications
Read online at:

http://appfrica.net/blog/2009/02/08/the-best-and-worst-project-management-apps/
Online project management tools enhance productivity and transparency. Project man-
agement can easily become chaotic and not very efficient whether you are part of a
team or of an organization. If you were planning to enhance remote collaboration, an
Intranet or document management system was so far a good choice. Online project
management tools go beyond that and allow decentralized collaboration between co-
workers, thus project planning and implementation get more transparent and productive.
Education
Transforming Policy and Practice for Gender in Education

A Gender Review of the 2010 EFA Global Monitoring Report
by Robert Smith and Kathleen Fincham

United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI), January 2010

32 pp. 776 kB:
http://www.ungei.org/resources/files/UNGEI_Analysis_of_GMR_2010.pdf
The 2010 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) shows marked improvement

in its treatment of women’s and girls’ education. Some earlier concerns
of UNGEI remain to be addressed fully, such as the tendency to focus
on single issues rather than complex relationships in the struggle to
achieve Education for All (EFA).
***
Reviving the Global Education Compact: Four Options for Global Educa-
tion Funding
by Desmond Bermingham
Center for Global Development, February 2010
24 pp. 694 kB:

http://www.cgdev.org/files/1423802_file_Bermingham_Education_Compact_FINAL.pdf
In this essay, the author describes the framework for a better “global education com-
pact” between donor and recipient nations and four possible arrangements to mobilize
and allocate development assistance for education. He highlight the advantages and
disadvantages of these options - all with the motivation of informing decisions that must
be taken by the United States and other G-20 countries if donor commitments are to be
met.
***
Education’s Hardest Test: Scaling up Aid in Fragile and Conflict-Affected

States
by Rebecca Winthrop, Susy Ndaruhutse, Janice Dolan et al.

Center for Universal Education at Brookings, 2010
12 pp. 820 kB:

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2010/02_educ
ation_aid_winthrop/02_education_aid_winthrop.pdf
Children living in countries affected by conflict, fragility, or emergencies are less likely to
enrol, continually participate, and complete their basic schooling than their peers living
in more stable countries. Donors have failed to provide sufficient resources and support
to the education of children and youth in these fragile and conflict-affected states. This
Policy Outlook outlines seven challenges that need to be addressed and recommenda-
tions for a way forward for donors and the international community.
***
Training teachers in an HIV and AIDS context: Experiences from Ethiopia,

Kenya, Uganda and Zambia
by Charles Nzioka and Lucinda Ramos

International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), 2008
115 pp. 484 kB:

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0016/001636/163605e.pdf

The studies presented in this document explored how ministries of education and
teacher-training colleges and institutions have developed (or not) policy and program-
matic interventions in response to HIV and AIDS. The studies’ results will be used as an
entry point to create regional inter-country information networks on better and more ef-
fective responses to HIV and AIDS in teacher-training colleges.
***
The response of teacher training institutions to HIV and AIDS

A case study of Ethiopia
by Ashebir Desalegn, Getnet Tadele and Haregewoin Cherinet

International Institute for Educational Planning and International Institute
for Capacity Building in Africa, 2008
77 pp. 452 kB:

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0017/001798/179865e.pdf
The main objective of this study was to explore the situation with regard to HIV and
AIDS in four selected teacher training institutes (TTIs) in Ethiopia, to analyze their re-
sponses to the pandemic and the measures taken to mitigate its impact. The ultimate
aim was to identify the obstacles, problems and challenges faced by the TTIs, and to put
forward evidence based recommendations for a more effective and coordinated re-
sponse.
***
Practising Gender Equality in Education
Edited by Sheila Aikman and Elaine Unterhalter

Oxfam GB, 2007
136 pp. 429 kB:

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/downloads/ProgIns_wholebook.pdf
The authors discuss some of the key challenges in achieving gender

equality in education, give examples of initiatives in a range of contexts, and make rec-
ommendations for action. They suggest that there is a more substantive goal to aim for
than gender parity (i.e. the same proportion of girls and boys entering and completing
schooling): we need to work towards an equitable education system which allows all in-
dividuals, irrespective of gender, to develop their potential.
Millennium Development Goals
The World’s Most Deprived
by Akhter U. Ahmed, Ruth Vargas Hill, Lisa C. Smith et al.

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), October 2007
148 pp. 3.2 MB:

http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/vp43.pdf
According to the Global Hunger Index (GHI), the hot spots of hunger are in Sub-
Saharan Africa and South Asia. The report asks: Will the poverty and hunger MDG be
met? If it is, at least 800 million people will still be trapped in poverty and hunger in

2015. But who will have moved out of poverty and hunger and who will remain left be-
hind? This report addresses these questions by developing a better understanding of
the characteristics of the world’s poorest and hungry and by examining whether busi-
ness as usual is likely to improve their welfare.
***
Progress towards the achievement of MDG4 in the Commonwealth of

Independent States: uncertain data, clear priorities
by Adriano Cattaneo Ilkhom Gafurov, Tamara Bomestar et al.

Health Research Policy and Systems 2010, 8:5 (12 February 2010)
14 pp. 120 kB:

http://www.health-policy-systems.com/content/pdf/1478-4505-8-5.pdf
Comparisons between countries with similar socioeconomic background but different

health policies seem to indicate that gradual progression towards universal coverage
with essential health care through a national health insurance system is associated with
larger reduction of child mortality than troubled transition towards a privatized and un-
regulated health system.
***
Achieving the MDGs in an Era of Global Uncertainty: Asia-Pacific Regional

Report 2009/10
by Raj Kumar, Nagesh Kumar, Haishan Fu et al.

ESCAP/ADB/UNDP Regional Partnership Programme, October 2009
128 pp. 5.6 MB:

http://content.undp.org/go/cms-service/stream/asset/?asset_id=2269033
The report illustrates the negative impacts of the global economic crisis on the progress
towards the Millennium Development Goals in the Asia-Pacific region and identifies op-
portunities for action - showing how countries of Asia and the Pacific can better protect
themselves from this and future crises.
***
Guide to the new Millennium Development Goals Employment indicators:

including the full decent work indicator set
by Alana Albee, Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Theo Sparreboom et al.

International Labour Organization, 2009
50 pp. 1.8 MB:

http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---
ed_emp/documents/publication/wcms_110511.pdf
The aim of this Guide is to inform national and international stakeholders on the defini-
tions, concepts, calculations and data sources for each of the new employment indica-
tors introduced in 2008 under MDG Target 1B. It also reinforces the existing indicator on
gender equality in the labour market under Goal 3. The purpose is to assist countries to
monitor and report effectively on their employment situation.

Development Assistance
Aid Allocation by German NGOs: Does the Degree of Public Refinancing

Matter?
by Axel Dreher, Peter Nunnenkamp, Susann Thiel, Rainer Thiele

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, January 2010
25 pp. 415 kB:

http://www2.vwl.wiso.uni-goettingen.de/courant-papers/CRC-
PEG_DP_23.pdf
Using a new dataset for 41 German non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the au-
thors analyze the allocation of NGO aid across recipient countries in a Tobit regression
framework. By identifying for each NGO the degree of public refinancing, the authors
address the largely unresolved issue of whether financial dependence on the govern-
ment impairs the targeting of NGO aid.
***
New Challenges, New Beginnings: Next Steps in European Development

Cooperation
by Paul Engel, Mikaela Gavas, Stefan Gänzle et al.

European Think-Tanks Group, Overseas Development Institute, Febru-
ary 2010
94 pp. 7.5 MB:

http://www.ideas4development.org/fileadmin/ressources/contribut
ors/odi/e333ed1c-abb0-4eb8-ae75-4d73a98af97c_1_.pdf
The ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, and the arrival in Brussels of a new leadership
team, together provide an opportunity to re-invigorate European collaboration and col-
lective action in the realm of international development. This publication is the result of a
collaboration between 25 researchers from four of Europe’s leading think-tanks on in-
ternational development. They lay out an agenda for partnership with developing coun-
tries, and examine how actors in the EU system can work better together.
***
How the European Commission can take the lead in providing high-quality
budget support for education and health
by Sasja Bökkerink, Carmen Gonzalez, Tobias Hauschild et al.

Oxfam International Briefing Paper, May 2008
35 pp. 227 kB:

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/debt_aid/downloads/bp111_ec_aid.pdf
Developing-country governments desperately need more long-term and predictable aid,

given through their budgets, to finance the expansion of health care, education, and
other vital social services. The European Commission (EC) is one of the biggest donors
providing this kind of essential budget support, and has innovative plans to further im-
prove and increase this aid.

Others
Health for All Medical Glossary in English, Spanish, Kreyòl and French
by Hilda María Pérez Núñez and Xiomara Díaz Torres

Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC) and the Hesperian Foundation,
2010
151 pp. 469 kB:

http://www.hesperian.info/assets/Glossary_English.pdf
English was just added to “Health for All Medical Glossary”, originally published by
MEDICC Review in Spanish, Creole and French. Developed for the Haitian graduates of
Cuba’s Latin American Medical School, the glossary - with over 4,000 words - assists
these committed young doctors on their return to Haiti - since they learned medicine in
Spanish, speak with their patients in Creole and compose clinical records in French.
***
Gender, Climate Change and Health

Draft Discussion Paper
WHO Department of Public Health & Environment and Department of

Gender Women & Health, 2010
32 pp. 686 kB:

http://www.who.int/globalchange/publications/reports/final_who_gender.pdf
In this paper, available information on the differential links between climate change and
the health of women and men has been collated and analyzed through the perspectives
of: (a) direct and indirect health consequences; and, (b) the possible interaction of bio-
logical and social risk factors in determining these impacts. The overall aim of this work
is to provide a framework for gendered health risk assessment and adaptation/mitigation
actions in relation to climate change.
***
The State of the Humanitarian System: Assessing Performance and Pro-

gress - A Pilot Study
by Paul Harvey, Abby Stoddard, Adele Harmer et al.

Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humani-
tarian Action (ALNAP), Overseas Development Institute, January 2010
76 pp. 5.1 MB:

http://www.alnap.org/pool/files/alnap-sohs-final.pdf
Poor coordination and leadership during crises hamper humanitarian efforts even
though the global systems receive more funding and boast more manpower than a dec-
ade ago. A United Nations cluster system, in which UN agencies lead aid efforts in cer-
tain sectors with nongovernmental aid groups, has improved the overall situation, but
more and better communication with local groups would improve response.
***

Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air
How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco’s Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate
Science
by Seth Shulman , Kate Abend, Alden Meyer et al.

Union of Concerned Scientists, January 2007
68 pp. 1.7 MB:

http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/exxon_report.pdf
The report offers the most comprehensive documentation to date of how ExxonMobil
has adopted the tobacco industry’s disinformation tactics, as well as some of the same
organizations and personnel, to cloud the scientific understanding of climate change
and delay action on the issue.
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Innovation Flash - The Newsletter of the Microinsurance Innovation Facil-
ity, Issue 5, February 2010
by Rene Roig and Sarah Bel

ILO’s Microinsurance Innovation Facility
4 pp. 435 kB:

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/mifacility/download/news/news5_en.pdf
This issue starts with an editorial from Craig Churchill, explains why Round 4 of the In-
novation grants focuses on health microinsurance, presents the Consulting and Capac-
ity Building (CCB) programme, and highlights News/Resources from the sector and a
few job opportunities.
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New Publication: MicroRisk-Insurance and Finance for a Developing World

Quarter 1, 2010, Issue 1
16 pp. 1.8 MB:

http://micro-risk.com/assets/issue1.pdf
MicroRisk is a new publication dedicated to the growing market for insurance to protect
the world’s low-income people. It covers microinsurance, policies that poor people can
buy for themselves and their families, and other insurance schemes that governments
and community organisations can use to benefit the poor.
***
Southern Med Review - Volume 3, Issue 1, February 2010

An International Journal to Promote Medicine Use and Access Research
33 pp. 864 kB:

http://www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/sop/smr/_docs/SMR_Vol3_%20Issue1.pdf
The Southern Med Review is an independent, open access, not for profit,
peer reviewed journal which is published 2-3 times a year from Auckland,
New Zealand. Southern Med Review provides a platform for researchers to disseminate

commentary and empirical research findings, with a view to improving the rational use of
and access to essential medicines.
***
Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
The Journal of Primary Care & Community Health is launching as a

new quarterly, peer-reviewed publication dedicated to the study, prac-
tice, impact and outcomes of primary care services and community
health programs. The audience for this exciting new journal will be pri-
mary care providers and community health professionals. Physicians,
allied health professionals, community health educators, and epidemi-
ologists who study health behavior and health outcomes will find the
content relevant and useful to their daily activities.
To find out more and register for free access to Volumes 1-3 of the Journal go to:
http://emessage.sagepub.com/emessageirs/servlet/IRSL?v=4&l=6&r=11270&m=11991&e=2
INTERESTING WEB SITES

INFORM - International Network for Online Resources and Materials
http://www.inform-network.org/doku.php
INFORM provides onsite training in Africa, Asia, and the Newly Independent States re-
garding free, high-quality information accessible through the World Wide Web. Depend-
ing on the setting and topic, the training may be designed for researchers, students,
university teachers, clinicians, programme officers, or information specialists and librari-
ans.
***
Implementing Best Practice (IBP) Knowledge Gateway
http://www.ibpinitiative.org/knowledge_gateway.php
The Implementing Best Practice (IBP) Knowledge Gateway is an electronic communica-

tion tool designed to improve and enhance our ability to:
 Access the information we need, when we need it, to improve reproductive health;
 Share local and international experience on effective practices, success stories, les-
sons learned, issues and concerns in reproductive health.
You can join the IBP Global Community and browse an online library of reproductive
health resources and receive weekly updates on important reproductive health informa-
tion.
***
Global Health Education Consortium
http://globalhealthedu.org/Pages/default.aspx
The Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC) is a consortium of health profession-

als, educators, students and institutions committed to improving the ability of the global
workforce to meet the needs of underserved populations through improved education
and training.

TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
Public Health Sciences for Human Security
A two-year Master’s Degree Program of Tohoku University Graduate School of Medi-

cine, Sendai, Japan
April 1st, 2010 and October 1st, 2010
Course Content: Introduction of international health, environmental health: with focus on

preventable death events as well as social systems behind them, such as infectious dis-
eases, chemical hazards, disasters and patient safety issues.
Language: English
For more information contact:
Tel.: +81-22-717-8021
Fax: +81-22-717-8198
mailto:Hstohoku-jimu@med.tohoku.ac.jp
or see http://human-security.jp/health/overview.html
For more courses and conferences see also:

http://www.going-international.at/index.php?lang=EN
***
Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Disease Control Pro-

grammes
21 June - 02 July 2010
Application deadline: 2 months before start of course.
ITC, Enschede and Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, Netherlands
This course focuses on the epidemiological assessment of disease burden and the im-
provement of programmatic planning and management. Attention is given to the re-
quirements for using GIS tools and how routine program data can be incorporated into
the GIS system. Special attention is given to using GIS tools for TB control programs,
but case studies related to malaria and other infectious diseases are also used.
Fees: € 1,440
For more information contact

healthtraining@kit.nl or education@itc.nl
or see: http://www.kit.nl/smartsite.shtml?id=16884
***
Addressing the Sexual Vulnerability of Young Women in Africa
18-30 July 2010

Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre, Lagos, Nigeria
The two-week course addresses issues, and emerging best practice in policy and pro-
gramming for sexual wellbeing. Participants will examine factors that prevent young
women from making healthy decisions and contribute to their exposure to HIV, sexual
violence and unwanted pregnancies.

Deadline for applications is 30 April 2010.
For more information, please go to: http://www.arsrc.org/training/sldf/index.htm
CONFERENCES
AidData Conference
15 - 22 March, 2010
Oxford, UK
This conference will feature the public launch of AidData. AidData, the result of a merger
between the PLAID (Project-Level Aid) database and the AiDA (Accessible information
on Development Activities) database of the Development Gateway, tracks more than 1
million projects spanning 81 donor agencies and totalling more than US$ 4.1 trillion over
40 years.
For more information about AidData, go to http://www.aiddata.org/oxford/about
CARTOON
TIPS & TRICKS

Google Buzz
Those with Google accounts may have noticed the new Google
feature that was launched this past week. Google Buzz is the new
social networking tool from Google which allows you to view all of
your social networking statuses directly in your Gmail account. The product automati-
cally makes you a follower of those you e-mail and chat with the most, which could be
good or bad. Users are able to configure Buzz for their individual preferences or disable
the feature entirely!
***

Free PC to Phone Calls to 8 countries
When you are calling from a computer to a telephone, this is known

as a PC to Phone call. When calling from a computer to another
computer, this is known as PC to PC phone call. Many services, like Skype, offer free
PC to PC phone calls, but charge money for PC to Phone calls. Fortunately, there is
software that offers free PC to Phone calls, which means you can call anyone from your
PC for free! MediaRing Talk is software that allows you to make free PC to Phone calls
to the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, China, Singapore, Hong
Kong, and Taiwan.
Step 1- Go to the MediaRing Talk Website

http://talkmember.mediaringtalk.com/mytalk/index.php?lang=en-us
Step 2- Sign up for MediaRing Talk

You are going to need a MediaRing Talk account before you can actually start using the
software; the registration process is free. MediaRing Talk offers a variety services in-
cluding mobile, and VOIP phone. Sign up for “computer” to make free PC to Phone
calls.
Step 3- Download MediaRing Talk

Once you are done signing up for MediaRing Talk you can download it to your com-
puter. The download is between 6-8 MB and should not take long to complete.
Step 4- Install MediaRing Talk

Once the download is complete, you are now able to install MediaRing Talk to your
computer. To start the installation, click on the executable file that you downloaded. This
will start the installation process.
Step 5- Start Using MediaRing Talk

Once the installation is complete, you can now start using the programme. Login with
your username, and access your account. The username and the password is the one
that you registered MediaRing Talk with.
You can make unlimited PC to Phone Calls with MediaRing Talk to the above men-
tioned 8 countries, but due to the fact that it is free, you are only allowed to speak for 10
minutes during each call. However, you have the option to immediately make another
call. The number of calls you can make is unlimited, and the time between calls is unlim-
ited. Therefore, the 10 minute limit really will not hinder your conversations at all. In or-
der to use MediaRing Talk all you need is a computer, an internet connection and a mi-
crophone (headset or loudspeakers).
Best regards,
Dieter Neuvians MD

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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES ............................................ 26

INTERESTING WEB SITES .............................................. 27

TIPS & TRICKS ................................................................. 29

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Sexual & Reproductive Health

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Editors Nuriye Ortayli, Milen Beyene

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UNFPA Guidance Note on Prenatal Sex Selection

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