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Alliance News Digest

Week of 26 March 2010

NEWS FROM WHO AND PARTNERS

• Public health in an interdependent world: cash commodities, capacities, and conspiracies – WHO. (3/24)
  WHO Director-General at The 8th Annual Jeffrey P. Koplan Global Leadership in Public Health lecture
• World Health Professions Alliance calls for vigilance in TB treatment non-response – WHPA. (3/24
  Citing counterfeit or substandard medicines as possible cause
• AMREF Announces New Director General – AMREF. (3/25)
  The AMREF Board of Directors announces the appointment of Dr Teguest Guerma as the incoming Director General
• ICN and IHTSDO Team-up to Ensure a Common Health Terminology – International Council of Nurses. (3/17)
  ICN will embrace this collaboration as an important means of supporting nurses in providing quality care
• On the move against tuberculosis: Nurses from 11 countries awarded for outstanding achievement in TB prevention, care and treatment . ICN. (3/19)
  Recipients are selected by their national nurses association for their outstanding achievement in TB prevention, care and treatment.
• Campagne de sensibilisation en faveur des OMD – AFD. March 2010.
  LDM Films et AFD présentent:: Campagne de sensibilisation en faveur des OMD

AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST

• A Case For Pharmacist Independent Prescribers (PIP) In Ghana? – Ghana Web. (3/21)
  In Ghana as in many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Government has always been highlighting the lack of trained health professionals due to brain drain
• Community Health Workers Get Cell Phones – New Times, Rwanda. (3/21)
  Over 2500 community based health workers (CBHWs) acquired phones as promised by President.
• New report to improve public health out soon – Next, Nigeria. (3/21)
  The Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria is to release a report that will help improve the poor standard of public health
• Lethal TB haunts health workers – Times LIVE, SA. (3/22)
  Tonight's hard-hitting episode of Special Assignment is titled "In the Line of Duty".
• Let’s curb mass exodus of health practitioners (Editorial) – This Day, Tanzania. (3/23)
  IT is a known fact that Tanzania faces an acute shortage of medical workers in its health care system
• Cell Phones for Health Care Are Timely (Editorial) – New Times, Rwanda. (3/21)
  The country is now concentrating on how mobile technology can help promote development, especially among rural communities.
• Malaria programme awaits Govt approval – The Herald, Zimbabwe. (3/23)
  Village health workers need training on the administration of Coartemether
• Gambia joins world to mark Tuberculosis Day – Today Online, Gambia. (3/24)
  Gov’t is providing 492 village health workers with bicycles so that they could continue to reach vulnerable people
• Gladys Palmer leads Nuwach Ministries to help out in Sierra Leone – Patriotic Vanguard, Sierra Leone. (3/18)
  Sierra Leone’s healthcare system is dangerously challenged and mired with an acute shortage of trained doctors and medical personnel.
• Striking S.Leone health workers refuse to go back to work – Africasia. (3/25)
  Nurses and doctors on strike for a week over poor working conditions in Freetown have refused to return to work.

ASIA AND PACIFIC

• TNIMA Graduates Over 300 Health Workers – The Inquirer, Philippines. (3/18)
  A major boost has been added to the country's health sector as the result of a major graduation ceremony that recently took place in the country
• Health staff strike hits polio drive – Times of India. (3/22)
  Community health workers have been on strike since March 13 to highlight their demands for better salaries.
• Quality treatment for TB patients to be ensured: DG Health – Daily Times, Pakistan. (3/25)
  Health Ministry is focusing on capacity building of health workers at various levels besides enhancing related services in the hospitals for TB patients
• CDWP approves 74 projects of Rs510 billion – DAWN.com, Pakistan. (3/20)
  The phase two of the Lady Health Workers’ Programme costing Rs53.0 billion was approved
• Health crisis levels – Lithgow Mercury, Australia. (3/20)
  There is an alarming shortage of midwives and half of the ward beds are closed.at Lithgow Hospital
• Our Central Hospital needs urgent attention – Solomon Star. (3/24)
  The environment in which health workers find themselves in is very challenging.
• Lay health workers can help reduce childhood mortality– News-Medical Net, Australia. (3/26
  Lay health workers can improve the health of poor children
• Half the new doctors will go to regional areas – ABC News, Australia. (3/17)
  When doctors complete training, they'll be encouraged to stay in country areas by new incentives starting in July
• Cuba’s health care alternative – Green Left Online, Australia. (3/20)
  Australia should look to Cuba for ideas on how to develop a decent public health system.
• Doctor, doctor, give me the nurse – Sydney Morning Herald. (3/22)
  Spending millions of dollars on highly trained workers out of tune with the needs of the population does not make sense.

NORTH AMERICA

• House passes health-care reform bill without Republican votes – Washington Post. (3/22)
  The House voted 219 to 212 to approve the measure, with every Republican voting no
• NSU helps to provide health care professionals - Muskogee Phoenix, OK. (3/20)
  Muskogee area has a shortage of trained health care professionals, including nurses and occupational therapists.
• Steady supply of medical services begins to pressure Haiti's doctors– Washington Post. (3/25)
  Indisputably, international organizations are carrying the Haitian health-care system today
• US Worker Shortage Coming As Population Ages: Report – Wall Street Journal. (3/22)
  With millions of unemployed people across the country, it may seem unbelievable that there could be more jobs than workers to fill them in coming years
• Haiti Looks Past Foreign Health Aid – Wall Street Journal. (3/19)
  Facing Dwindling Medical Help from Abroad, Officials Plan Postquake System, Seek Outside Funds
• Leading Economist Forecasts More Jobs Than Workers in Coming Years – PR Newswire. (3/22)
  Projects Significant Labor Shortages by 2018; Workers Over 55 Will Be Key to Closing the Gap
• Health care reform hampered by shortage of primary care doctors – Minnesota Public Radio News. (3/22(
  A key part of the health care overhaul is to insure at least 30 million more Americans. But there may not be enough primary care doctors to treat them
• Anti-Staffing H-1B Memo to Get Another Meeting – Workforce Management. (3/24)
  Concern was raised that memo could prevent staffing firms from bringing in foreign physicians and allied health workers on H-1B visas
• More Doctors Giving Up Private Practices – New York Times. (3/25)
  A quiet revolution is transforming how medical care is delivered in this country A quiet revolution is transforming how medical care is delivered in this country
• Experts warn of nursing shortage – Toronto Star, (3/2))
  Canada is in danger of losing huge numbers of nurses to other countries

EUROPE

• RIGHTS-UGANDA: Bearing the Pains of Double Discrimination – IPS Terra Viva-Europe. (3/26)
  Widwifes do not have the training to handle women with disabilities
• Health and human rights education: time to act – The Lancet, UK. (3/13)
  The right to health encompasses more than just access to health care
• Mobile healthcare: when a phone becomes a life-saver – Financial Times, UK. (3/22)
  When it comes to healthcare, access to even simple information has a big impact on people’s lives
• New laws for health workers welcomed – Epworth Bells, UK. (3/18)
  An agreement has now been struck between healthcare professionals and trade unions which will inform new EU legislation
• Use of telemedicine will double in next decade, report predicts- BMJ, UK. (3/23)
  Telemedicine can reduce the hospital stays of these patients by around 50%,
• Hospital tem falta de pessoal – Jornal de Notícias, Portugal. (3/25)
  Deputados do PSD exigemreforço dos recursos humanos

LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN

• Funding a global health fund – Stabroek News, Guyana. (3/21)
  . Expanding the Global Fund’s mandate to include financing for training and deployment of community health workers
• Saúde pública de qualidade, por Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter* - Zero Hora, Brazil. (3/21)
  Orecente início das obras do Hospital da Restinga demonstrou que é possível mudar a dramática realidade da saúde pública
• Por falta de cargos fijos aumenta déficit de enfermeros en el litoral – Entorno Inteligente, Venezuela. (3/22)
  Se necesitan 160 profesionales de la enfermería, especializados en cuidados intensivos.
• Crisis en el Hospital Regional del ISSSTE; hay carencia de insumos básicos y equipo – La Jornada de Oriente, Mexico. (3/22)
  La carencia de insumos, medicamentos y equipo médico en el Hospital Regional del ISSSTE ha provocado suspensiones de cirugías
• Hoy no hay atención en 5 centros de Salud – Correo Perú. (3/20)
  Trabajadores de la salud se rebelan por falta de pago durante cinco meses.

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