Improving Maternal and Child Health

MMS Symposium 2012: Mutter-Kind-Gesundheit

Basel, 6. November 2012

MMS Das Netzwerk Medicus Mundi Schweiz wird an seinem diesjährigen Symposium die Mutter-Kind-Gesundheit debattieren. Trotz vieler Fortschritte in den vergangenen Jahren, handelt es sich um den Bereich, in welchen die globale Gesundheit am wenigsten vorangekommen ist. Das Symposium ermöglicht es zusammen mit relevanten Akteurinnen und Akteure hier in der Schweiz das brennende Thema der Mutter-Kind-Gesundheit zu debattieren, Handlungsmöglichkeiten zu evaluieren und den politischen Prozess zu stärken.

www.medicusmundi.ch

Building a Future for Women and Children

Countdown to 2015 launches the 2012 Report

WHO Countdown’s new report, Building a Future for Women and Children: The 2012 Report, highlights country progress—and obstacles to progress—towards achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5 to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health. It focuses, like previous Countdown reports, on evidence-based solutions—health interventions proven to save lives—and on the health systems, policies, financing and other factors that affect the equitable delivery of these lifesaving interventions to women and children. Updated country profiles for 75 Countdown countries were published together with the report.

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Melinda Gates’ New Crusade: Investing Billions in Women's Health

Getting Women's Health back on the global agenda

Newsweek "She plans to use the Gates Foundation’s billions to revolutionize contraception worldwide. The Catholic right is pushing back. Is she ready for the political firestorm ahead?", asks the magazine Newsweek.

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Everyone Has the Right to Family Planning

London Summit at 11th July 2012

Countdown 2015 "In London on 11 July on the same day as World Population Day, the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will host the Family Planning Summit. (...) There are hundreds of millions of women in developing countries who want to delay or avoid a pregnancy but are not using an effective method of family planning. The Summit aims to provide an additional 120 million women in the world’s poorest countries with access lifesaving contraceptives, services and information by 2020."

www.countdown2015europe.org

Swiss Public Health Conference: (Re-)Organizing Health Systems

Lausanne, 30. - 31. August 2012

Public Health Schweiz Wie in anderen Ländern hat sich auch in der Schweiz der Gesundheitszustand der Bevölkerung verbessert. Dies ist an gewissen Indikatoren wie der vorzeitigen Sterblichkeit oder der Gesundheit von älteren Personen zu erkennen. In einer zunehmend älter werdenden Bevölkerung nehmen jedoch auch beispielsweise die Häufigkeit der Pflegebedürftigkeit und degenerativer Krankheiten zu. Diesen Herausforderungen muss mit Anpassungen unseres Gesundheitssystems bei den Zielen, der Finanzierung und der Steuerung begegnet werden. An dieser Konferenz werden Aussichten und Strategien zur Erhaltung und Verbesserung sowohl der individuellen Gesundheit als auch der Gesundheit der Bevölkerung präsentiert, analysiert und diskutiert.

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Mexiko: Menschenrechte und soziale Bewegungen nach den Präsidentschaftswahlen

Zürich, 4. Juli 2012 / Bern, 6. Juli 2012

medico international schweiz Nach einem konfrontativen Wahlkampf und dem Urnengang vom 1. Juli 2012 werden in Mexiko die Karten der politischen Macht neu gemischt. Sara Mendez von der medico-Partnerorganisation Codigo DH und Philipp Gerber, Co-Verantwortlicher der medico-Projekte in Mexiko, reflektieren die Sicht der MenschenrechtsverteidigerInnen und der sozialen Bewegungen auf das aktuelle Geschehen in Mexiko, mit Schwerpunkt auf den südlichen Regionen Chiapas, Oaxaca und Guerrero. Durchgeführt in Zusammenarbeit mit der Direkten Solidarität mit Chiapas.

www.medicointernational.ch

Summer School in Public Health Policy, Economics and Management

Lugano, 20 - 25 August 2012

Swiss TPH The Summer School is a joint venture of the Swiss School of Public Health+ (SSPH+), the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) and the University of Lugano’s Institute of Economics. The offered courses are intended for professionals and managers (senior executives and middle managers) of health administrations, hospitals and other services and structures within the health sector, including Ministries of Health, and for participants of one of the postgraduate training programmes (MPH, MIH, PhD) of the SSPH+ and their partners.

www.ssphplus.ch

Allgemeiner Tropenkurs

Basel, September - November 2012

Swiss TPH Der Allgemeine Tropenkurs (ATK) ist ein 8-wöchiger, ganztägiger Kurs, welcher auf das Leben und Arbeiten in Ländern mit extremer Mittelknappheit vorbereitet. Der ATK ermöglicht eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit den globalen ökonomischen, ökologischen, kulturgeographischen und sozio-kulturellen Zusammenhängen und gesundheitlichen Aspekten des Lebens in den Tropen und Subtropen.

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Rational Management of Medicines. A focus on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

Pretoria, 14 October - 26 October 2012

Swiss TPH Medicines are an essential and cost-effective tool of health care and an important element of health systems. Yet today, for millions of people worldwide essential medicines remain unavailable and unaffordable. Diseases of poverty including HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis tragically claim innumerable lives in low income countries. This two weeks course will be conducted in Pretoria, South Africa where a full range of public, private and NGO based health care facilities offer opportunities for first hand exposure.

www.swisstph.ch

Health District Management: Priority Setting, Planning and Programme Design

Ifakara (Tanzania), 12 - 30 November 2012

Swiss TPH The course aims at introducing the basic principles of strategic programme and project management. It also focuses on practical aspects of the planning and implementation process, using the techniques of a simulation exercise and computer based support.

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Hilfe für die syrische Zivilbevölkerung

Einsatz trotz schwieriger Sicherheitslage

In Syrien wird die Lage wird für die Bevölkerung zunehmend prekärer. Das Rote Kreuz und der Rote Halbmond weiten die Hilfe für die intern Vertriebenen aus. Daran beteiligt sich das SRK mit 500‘000 Franken zur Verteilung von Nahrungsmitteln und weiteren Hilfsgütern.

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Rio+20: eine verpasste Gelegenheit

Stellungnahme von Alliance Sud

Alliance Sud Das Schlussdokument der Uno-Konferenz Rio+20 zu nachhaltiger Entwicklung enttäuscht in mehrfacher Hinsicht. Die Entwicklungsländer konnten zwar durchsetzen, dass das Konzept der „Grünen Wirtschaft“ ihre Entwicklungsbedürfnisse nicht einschränkt. Für Alliance Sud, der entwicklungspolitischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft der grossen Hilfswerke, aber hat es der Gipfel verpasst, den für eine zukunftsfähige Entwicklung nötigen Paradigmenwechsel einzuleiten und damit das Überleben der Menschheit zu sichern.

www.alliancesud.ch

First Pan-African Health Journalism Network Created

“This network will take health journalism to a new level of professionalism and cooperation in Africa"

health-e "Journalists from across Africa announced the creation of the first continent-wide professional association of health journalists."

www.health-e.org.za

Leiter-/in Finanzwesen

Stellenausschreibung am Swiss TPH

Swiss TPH Das Schweizerische Tropen- und Public Health Institut leistet einen Beitrag zur Verbesserung der nationalen und internationalen Gesundheit mittels Forschung, Lehre und Dienstleistung. Für die Administration sucht es infolge Pensionierung der bisherigen Stelleninhaberin per 1. Januar 2013 oder nach Vereinbarung eine-/n Leiter-/in Finanzwesen. (pdf)

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Lesotho: HIV / primary healthcare project manager

SolidarMed Job Opportunities

SolidarMed The HIV project (SMART) supports the up-scaling of HIV/AIDS services through task-shifting and decentralization in the catchment areas of Thaba Tseka and Butha Buthe District. The primary healthcare project (PHC) started in 2011 as a pilot project in Butha Buthe and Thaba Tseka Districts with a focus on village health worker support, community empowerment and strengthening the links between the formal health system and communities. Due to Lesotho’s disease burden, the focus is on TB, HIV and maternal and child health. As of 2014, the two projects will be merged. At the same time, the collaboration with the district health management teams will be strengthened. Both projects are embedded into the SolidarMed country programme. For each catchment area (Butha Bute and Thaba Tseka), SolidarMed recruits one HIV/PHC project manager (two identical positions open). (pdf)

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New Guide for Transboundary Research Partnerships

KFPE: 11 Principles on research conducted in transboundary and intercultural partnerships

KFPE "Based on an extensive consultation process, the KFPE (Commission for Research Partnerships with Developing Countries) has completely updated its "11 Principles for Research in Partnership" – in use for over 10 years already – and has integrated current trends and experience. In addition, we have also developed 7 fundamental questions that point to factors enabling or hindering research in partnership. The 7 questions are meant to help users to better understand and implement the 11 principles. They examine various aspects of research partnerships and also intend to stimulate reflection and debate."

www.kfpe.ch

Pillars for progress on the right to health

Harnessing the potential of human rights through a Framework Convention on Global Health

Health and Human Rights "Ever more constitutions incorporate the right to health, courts continue to expand their right to health jurisprudence, and communities and civil society increasingly turn to the right to health in their advocacy. Yet the right remains far from being realized. Even with steady progress on numerous fronts of global health, vast inequities at the global and national levels persist, and are responsible for millions of deaths annually. We propose a four-part approach to accelerating progress towards fulfilling the right to health," write Eric A. Friedman and Lawrence O. Gostin.

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The Food Industry Is Ripe for Scrutiny

PLoS Medicine The PLoS Medicine Magazine launches a major new series on “Big Food”: "Over three weeks beginning 19 June 2012 we will publish seven articles that examine the activities and influence of the food and beverage industry in the health arena.(...) Industry in health has long fascinated PLoS Medicine but our focus on Big Food is new. Food, unlike tobacco and drugs, is necessary to live and is central to health and disease. And yet the big multinational food companies control what people everywhere eat, resulting in a stark and sick irony: one billion people on the planet are hungry while two billion are obese or overweight. The time is ripe for PLoS Medicine to shine a light on Big Food. Foremost, large food and beverage companies now have an undeniably influential presence on the global health stage."

www.plosmedicine.org