Dear Colleagues,
At a time of global fear for the new influenza strain we wanted to provide you some information on the situation without sounding the alarm.
We also selected a series of interesting articles around global health initiatives (GHI): A call to broaden the mandate of the Global Fund; an analysis of the effective strengthening of health systems by GHI and a call for the
We also propose you a series of articles around AIDS: Wim Van Damme and colleagues analyse the effects of scaling up ARVs in
While screening for articles we find more articles that might interest some of you. We then list them on http://delicious.com/dhph99 or at the bottom of our blog where you can look for a specific topic.
David Hercot & on behalf of Wim Van Damme
La version française est ici.
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Influenza
Lancet – Swine influenza: how much of a global threat?
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GHI
2. Lancet A global fund for the health MDGs?
Giorgio Cometto, Gorik Ooms, Ann Starrs, Paul Zeitz
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60835-7/fulltext
3. PLOS Global Health Actors Claim To Support Health System Strengthening—Is This Reality or Rhetoric?
Bruno Marchal, Anna Cavalli, Guy Kegels
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000059
4. Lancet International family-planning budgets in the “new US” era<
Duff Gillespie, Elizabeth S Maguire, Margaret Neuse, Steven W Sinding, J Joseph Speidel
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)60837-0/fulltext
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AIDS
5. PLOS Rapid Scale-Up of Antiretroviral Treatment in
Yibeltal Assefa, Degu Jerene, Sileshi Lulseged, Gorik Ooms, Wim Van Damme
http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000056
6. NEJM Rationing Antiretroviral Therapy in
Nathan Ford, D.H.A., Edward Mills, Ph.D., and Alexandra Calmy, M.D.
http://nejm.highwire.org/cgi/content/full/360/18/1808
7. CGD Waiting for Goosby: PEPFAR’s Chance to Shine
By Nandini Oomman
http://blogs.cgdev.org/globalhealth/2009/04/waiting-for-goosby-pepfar%E2%80%99s-chance-to-shine.php
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