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Sarah Kalloch on
March 10, 2010
We’re just a month away from World Health Day (April 7th) and the official launch of advocacy for the Global HEALTH Act of 2010. So far this month, through this blog you’ve learned about the Global HEALTH Act and gotten some great facts about the health workforce crisis (and how many people are waiting in line [...]
Posted in AIDS, General Human Rights, Health, Lessons from Kenya, Students, Video, Women
| Tagged africa, fred katumba, Global HEALTH Act, Health Rights Advocacy Forum, health workforce, Jane Byarugaba, kenya, powerpoint, resources, Uganda, Video, World Health Day
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By
Hope O'Brien on
March 4, 2010
To promote and protect the Right to Health, a health system must be of good quality, equitable, integrated, responsive, effective, and accessible to all. The capacities of health systems can be measured in many ways. No matter how they are measured, the disparities between countries’ health systems are tremendous, and these differences are a matter of human rights. It’s [...]
Posted in Health
| Tagged africa, DC, doctors, Ethiopia, facts, G8, Health Systems, health worker shortage, human resources, index, physicians, right to health, washington, WHO
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Pete Witzler on
June 23, 2009
With hearings and debates scheduled in Congress in the coming weeks global AIDS funding is in the news once again. Health Action AIDS Campaign Director Pat Daoust responded to recent coverage in the Boston Globe with a hard-hitting letter to the editor. She strongly rebuts the notion that “Africa is covered in HIV/AIDS money:”
[T]hey are [...]
Posted in AIDS, Take Action
| Tagged africa, barack obama, global health, pat daoust, PEPFAR, peter mugyenyi, sarah kalloch, us senate
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Pat Daoust, MSN, RN on
June 12, 2009
On Tuesday, June 9, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held confirmation hearings for Dr. Eric Goosby to serve as Ambassador at Large and US Global AIDS Coordinator. That same day, nearly 6,000 people living with HIV around the world died — as they do every day — due to a lack of access to life-saving treatments.
The stakes are high [...]
Posted in AIDS, Health
| Tagged africa, ambassador at large, barack obama, eric goosby, lancet, PEPFAR, peter mugyenyi, senate foreign relations committee, us global aids coordinator, us global health intiative
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By
Emily Bancroft on
June 11, 2009
Janvier Yubahwe, a medical intern at Ruhengeri District Hospital in northern Rwanda, starts his day around 6:30 a.m. with a 15 minute walk to the hospital from his house. Recently, photographer Greg Kendall-Ball and I spent the day at the hospital with Janvier and his colleagues, learning more about the life of a doctor in [...]
Posted in AIDS, Health
| Tagged africa, gregg kendall-ball, h1n1 flu, health workers, human resources for health strategic plan, janvier yubahwe, maternal mortality, ministry of health, national referral hospitals, ruhengeri district hospital, Rwanda
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By
Neil Chawla on
April 3, 2009
Is healthcare a right? What is a human right? Why is this important in Africa? Wednesday was spent meeting people who offered different perspectives on these questions and elucidated new ideas for progress in Uganda.
This is a country rife with the denial of basic rights. From a lack of educational opportunities [...]
Posted in General Human Rights, Health, Students
| Tagged africa, east africa health and human rights leadership institute, global fund, lord's resistance army, lra, malaria, TB, udhr, Uganda, universal declaration of human rights
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By
Pat Daoust, MSN, RN on
March 19, 2009
Without Peter’s work, there would be no PEPFAR.
This was how Ambassador Mark Dybul (PDF), former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, introduced Uganda’s Peter Mugyenyi, MD, before remarks at Georgetown University yesterday.
Amb. Dybul called Dr. Mugyenyi a true hero, whose successful pioneering efforts to bring antiretroviral treatment to sub-Saharan Africa had been key to the Bush Administration’s [...]
Posted in AIDS, Health, Women
| Tagged africa, committee on foreign affairs, donald payne, georgetown university, joint clinical research center, mark dybul, new jersey, PEPFAR, peter mugyenyi, subcommittee on africa and global health, Uganda, us global aids coordinator, white house
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Pat Daoust, MSN, RN on
March 16, 2009
One of the pioneers and leaders of AIDS treatment in Africa, Dr. Peter Mugyenyi, is on Capitol Hill this week to share stories about the impact of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) in Uganda and throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
PHR and its members played a key role in the passage of an expanded and [...]
Posted in AIDS, Health
| Tagged africa, center for strategic and international studies, genocide by denial, georgetown university, mark dybul, office of global aids coordinator, ogac, PEPFAR, peter mugyeni, state of the union, Uganda, us congress, washington dc
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By
Lissy Desantis on
March 13, 2009
This is the second post in the Health Action AIDS Campaign’s March weekly blog series highlighting the need to integrate family planning and HIV/AIDS services. In our last blog post, we talked about the idea of a one-stop shop where people can come to one health facility and [...]
Posted in AIDS, Health, Lessons from Kenya, Women
| Tagged africa, family planning, kenya, nairobi, one stop shop, pmtct, vct
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