This week is World Health Assembly, so we start with a short note from WHO, focusing strongly on concerns about a flu pandemic. Fortunately, there is also attention in
The following documents focus respectively on the USA’s commitment to Global Health (a report from the Institute of Medicine); a criticism of the EU’s own Court of Auditors on EU’s neglect of non-state actors in aid programmes; and a short Lancet piece on the review of World Bank health projects (which we covered already last week too).
We also selected a World Bank working paper on the role of donors in Global Public Goods in Health.
Finally, we selected the editorial from this week’s Lancet thematic issues on Diabetes, and a New England perspectives article on Health Care Reform in the
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01 – WHO- World Health Assembly opens amid concerns about flu pandemic
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2009/world_health_assembly_20090518/en/index.html
02 – WHO – Progress on health MDGs mixed
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/notes/2009/millennium_development_goals_20090521/en/index.html
03 – Development 2008 – Making sense of the MDGs – Vandemoortele
http://www.eldis.org/go/display&type=Document&id=43385
04 – IOM report on US commitment to Global Health
05 – 2009-EC neglects non-State actors in development
06 – Lancet-2009-World Bank health projects get mixed review
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS014067360960965X/fulltext?rss=yes
07 – Embezzlement of donor funding in health
http://www.u4.no/document/publication.cfm?3031=embezzlement-of-donor-funding-in-health-projects
08 – Donors & GPG in Health – WPS4907
http://ideas.repec.org/p/wbk/wbrwps/4907.html
09 – Lancet-2009-Diabetes—a global threat
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673609609545/fulltext?rss=yes
10 – NEJM-2009-Building Momentum as Democrats Forge Health Care Reform
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/NEJMp0903872v1
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