Resources
From a lack of hospital beds and ambulances, to the widespread use of expired drugs, KCs document the impact inadequate healthcare resources have on communities.
KCS also report announcements of donor-funded projects from transnational bodies, governments and non governmental organisations, and the impact spending boosts and cuts are having on ordinary people's attempts to stay healthy.
KCs also examine the way international agreements such as Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights affect the treatment people living in resource poor settings receive.
Dilemma as district suffers shortage of health workers
From www.monitor.co.ug
Access to medical attention by patients in critical condition has turned into a nightmare for Adjumani residents as a shortage of doctors continues to haunt the district hospital in Northern Uganda. go
Arua hospital faces closure over toilets
From www.monitor.co.ug
Uganda: Arua Regional Referral Hospital and police headquarters face closure over poor hygiene due to filled up pit-latrines. go
Absent health workers ‘should be arrested’, says resident district commissioner
Health workers who absent themselves from work should be arrested, according to the resident district commissioner of Isingiro in Western Uganda, Fabian Bomera. more
More investment in youth needed as world population tops 7 billion, say UNFPA
Today (31 October, 2011), the world population is projected to reach seven billion. How we respond now will determine whether we have a healthy, sustainable and prosperous future or one that is marked by inequalities, environmental decline and economic setbacks, argues the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in its State of World Population 2011 report published last Wednesday (26 October, 2011). more
Overcrowding at hosptial must stop, warns doctor
Thomas Obong, principal administrator at Soroti Regional Referral Hospital, has urged the government to recruit doctors and make health units in the region fit for purpose to decongest the main hospital. more
Zimbabwe launches Health Transition Fund
A new financing scheme that may see health service fees abolished for women and children and 30,000 lives saved has been launched in Zimbabwe. more
Global Fund transfers HIV grant in Mali from National AIDS Council to new recipient
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will transfer management of a US$28.77 million HIV/AIDS grant from Mali’s national AIDS council, the Haut Conseil de Lutte contre le Sida (HCLNS), to a new principal recipient at the end of the year. more
Global Fund: errors of interpretation and possible omission
Since the launch of the 11th round of Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria great confusion remains regarding the application of the concept of ‘most at risk populations’ (MARPs). This has resulted in the exclusion of some sex worker groups from recent Round 11 proposals, reports KC Javier Hourcade Bellocq. more