PHA-Exchange> Request for comments, views and information on the Gates Foundation

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Request for comments, views and information on the Gates Foundation
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The Global Health Watch is an alternative world health report produced every 
two and a half years with important PHM inputs. The aim is to critique and 
assess the state of global health governance and action with a strong equity 
lens and with an explicit political and economic critique. It is also designed 
to act as an instrument of accountability by reviewing and discussing the 
activities, policies and impacts of a variety of key actors and institutions, 
including WHO, the World Bank and donor governments. Further information on 
the Global Health Watch can be found on http://www.ghwatch.org/

One of the forthcoming chapters in the next Watch will be on the Gates 
Foundation and we are looking for informants, particularly from low and middle 
income countries, who have any considered views and observations on the Gates 
Foundation, particularly with respect to the following thematic areas: 
-          The influence of the Gates Foundation on health policy, including 
with regards to intellectual property and sexual and reproductive health;
-          The impact of Gates funded programmes on health and health systems 
-          The accountability and transparency of the Gates Foundation
-          The pros and cons of philanthropic funding versus public financing
-          The relationship between the Gates Foundation and other global 
health institutions such as WHO

Given the undeniably huge importance and influence of the Gates Foundation on 
global health sector, the Global Health Watch feels it is important and 
necessary to generate discussion and debate about it. 

If you have any contributions to this important chapter in the next 
alternative world health report, please contact us at: mailto:ghw at hst.org.za. 

Any wish to remain totally anonymous will be respected.

--
Bridget Lloyd
Global Health Watch 2007-2008
http://www.ghwatch.org/
mailto:bridget at hst.org.za


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