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Alliance News Digest

Week of 4 June 2010

NEWS FROM WHO AND PARTNERS

• UNFPA and Global Leaders to Promote Investment in Women and Maternal Health at Historic Women Deliver Conference – UNFPA. (6/1)
  Women Deliver Conference to promote investment in women and share solutions that can empower girls and reduce maternal deaths and disabilities
• Linking maternal and child health to AIDS ahead of G8 Summit – UNAIDS. (6/1)
  UNAIDS is encouraged by the sharp focus of the Canadian G8 Presidency on child and maternal health.
• Baby Merline: A special birth in Haiti – Merlin, UK. (6/1)
  As told by Cezanne, a nurse and team leader for one of Merlin's mobile clinics.
• “HRH Challenges for Achieving MDGs” – AAAH. (5/31)
  AAAH is organizing the 5th AAAH conference in 4-6 October 2010, in Bali, Indonesia.
• Mother-to-child transmission of HIV – HIFA2015.(6/1)
  The purpose is to highlight the importance of healthcare information and knowledge as a critical issue in preventing mother-to-child transmission,
• Toolkit for Using Round 10 of the Global Fund for Health Systems Strengthening – Physicians for Human Rights. (June 2010)
  Global Health Action Campaign

AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST

• Development aid in five easy steps (Op-Ed) – Mmegi Online, Botswana. (5/27)
  Every country, rich and poor, should ensure universal coverage of primary health care
• Over 2000 Health Workers Get Free Phones – New Times, Rwanda. (5/31)
  A total of 2283 community health workers in Karongi district will get free mobile phones as part of government's efforts to boost the health sector
• FG warns health workers against sabotage – The Punch, Nigeria. (5/31)
  FG is working hard to upgrade health facilities in its hospitals to international standards.
• Health workers get pay rise in June – Next, Nigeria. (5/31)
  Only a harmonious working relationship could turn around the abysmal health indices of Nigerians.
• Lack of healthcare causes rise in orphans – Times LIVE, SA. (5/29)
  Healthcare for children needs to be improved throughout the country
• Bid to stop exodus vital – Business Daily Africa. (5/31)
  According to WHO, Kenya loses Sh40.3 million every time one doctor emigrates and another Sh26.4 million for a nurse.
• Experts want policy on health care providers – New Vision, Uganda. (5/27)
  Only 42% of mothers deliver with the aid of a skilled health worker
• Aid alone will not turn around our healthcare - The Independent, Uganda. (5/31)
  Africa has the highest disease burden, yet the lowest financing on health
• Netcare hospitals’ workers down tools – The Sowetan, SA. (6/3)
  Health workers strike for salary increases.
• Plus de 1 400 médecins spécialistes formés en 2009 attendent leur affectation – La Tribune, Algeria. (5/25)
  Le problème de la répartition des postes budgétaires des nouveaux médecins spécialistes se pose chaque année

ASIA AND PACIFIC

• Challenges awaiting new finance minister – Jakarta Post. (6/1)
  In 2006, in the health sector, Indonesia’s health facilities were only sufficient to treat 34.1 percent of patients
• Health worker exam held – Times of India. (5/30)
  More than 4,000 female candidates appeared in the exam held at 33 centres of the Kanpur division.
• HIV-infected children need proper care – APP, Pakistan. (6/2)
  There is a lack of health services to meet the specific needs of these young infectees.
• Trainee doctors to do OE on full pay in trial – Radio New Zealand. (6/3)
  Training and retaining workers is a continuing problem in the health sector
• Opinions: Stopping active recruitment of developing country health care workers – Medical News Net, Australia. (6/2)
  U.S. Should Curb Active Recruitment Of Health Professionals From Developing Countries

NORTH AMERICA

• Archbold aids area graduates – Thomasville Times-Enterprise, GA. (5/31)
  Archbold Award scholarship is designed to alleviate the shortage of health care workers and promote careers in health care
• Stemming the brain drain of health-care workers from developing countries (Op-Ed) – Seattle Times. (5/28)
  Well-established countries need to beef up training of health-care workers to stem the brain drain of such workers from developing countries where they are needed more
• Budget ills curb services – Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri. (5/28)
  Though the health department has not cut positions, it also hasn’t added health workers despite increasing demand for services
• New union wins bid to represent healthcare workers at USC University Hospital – Los Angeles Times. (5/28)
  he National Union of Healthcare Workers triumphed in its bid to represent more than 600 technicians, respiratory therapists and other employees at the USC-owned hospital
• Advice to the G8: Reducing Maternal and Child Mortality – Science Blogs. (5/28)
  Developing countries should establish incentive programs to retain clinical staff trained internally and repatriate former staff.
• CSUDH to ease Africa brain drain – Daily Breeze, CA. (5/31)
  In regions of the world where health care is needed most, skilled providers tend to leave for better opportunities …..
• Nursing Shortage Portends Ill Will for Colorado – PR Web. (5/20)
  Colorado’s nursing and health care workforce shortages threaten the health of our citizens and our economic viability, according to a new report
• Mayor Proposes Cutting School Nursing Positions – New York Times. (6/1)
  Victims of citywide budget cuts are nursing positions at small schools, public and private.
• Effect of Peer Health Workers on AIDS Care in Rakai, Uganda: A Cluster-Randomized Trial – PLoS ONE. (6/2)
  Human resource limitations are a challenge to the delivery of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in low-resource settings
• Text messages save pregnant Rwandan women – National Post, Canada. (5/28)
  The Rapid SMS scheme is being tested in the Musanze District where 432 health workers have received mobile phones.

EUROPE

• Hospital train provides lifeline to rural India – The Lancet, UK. (5/29)
  India's Lifeline Express has been helping the country plug the gaps in its health-care system for nearly 20 years
• Minister Seeks Ethical Recruitment of Foreign Health Workers – YLE News, Finland. (5/30)
  Finland needs more support staff for the elderly -- but language skills are essential.
• Overseas nurses recruitment drive launched as shortage bites – Times of Malta. (6/3)
  The Health Ministry is seeking to recruit between 200 and 300 foreign nurses to solve the "crisis" resulting from the shortage in the sector
• Fury as Scots health workers suffer 4500 assaults, sex attacks and thefts in just a year – Scottish Daily Record, UK. (6/1)
  MORE than 4500 crimes were committed in hospitals and doctors' surgeries in Scotland last year.
• South Africa probes infant deaths – Healthcare Today, UK. (6/1)
  SA health system lacks adequate money and staff,
• Health workers in step for fundraiser – Wales Online, UK. (6/3)
  The Go-Africa initiative at the health board starts on Saturday and will raise money for mothers and children in Africa.
• Novel partnerships help poor countries extend access to health services – BMJ, UK. (6/1)
  Developing countries are struggling to provide universal access to health care.
• Bastonário defende monitorização dos cortes nas despesas – RCM Pharma, Portugal. (5/31)
  A carência que há de profissionais de saúde e com algumas técnicas de gestão completamente desajustadas

LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN

• Materno Infantil de Caricuao se desploma – El Universal, Venezuela. (5/29)
  No tiene anestesiólogos y neonatólogos
• Saúde em coma – Diário de Pernambuco, Brazil. (5/31)
  o governo, incapaz de gerir a saúde, iniciou algumas intervenções no sistema obrigando as seguradoras a alongarem períodos de atendimentos, darem coberturas a eventos não previstos
• Partos no Hospital Joâo Morilo é motivo de protestos – Jornal do Commercio, Brazil. (5/27)
  Falhas na atenção às grávidas
• Médicos denuncian colapso de la salud pública en el país – ABC Digital, Paraguay. (6/3)
  . Hay falta de insumos y medicamentos en hospitales generales y los especializados.
• Médicos de Emergencias reclaman pago de varios beneficios a Salud – La Nación, Paraguay. (6/2)
  Se denuncia política del gobierno que ha abandonado los hospitales y no se contratan mas médicos ni enfermeras.

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