<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a><br> <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; LINE-HEIGHT: 15.3pt"><b><font face="Arial" color="#993300" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #993300">International Health Partnership – A Global 'Compact' for Achieving the Health Millennium Development Goals
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">5 September 2007 No. 10 Downing Street London United Kingdom
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London</span></font><font color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399"> "….To work together in more efficient ways to improve health care and health outcomes in low and middle income countries. Led by country governments acting with their civil society we will tackle the challenges facing country health systems – particularly having enough trained health workers, in the right places and with the motivation, skills, equipment, commodities and medicines to do their work.
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399">- To build on and use the existing systems at country level for planning, coordination, delivery and management of the health sector within the overall national development framework to achieve MDG related outcomes. …."
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><span><b><font face="Arial" color="#993300" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #993300; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">New International Health Partnership launched</span></font></b></span></p>
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<font color="#333399"><span style="COLOR: #333399">http://www.who.int/dg/speeches/2007/20070905_london/en/index.html</span></font></a> <br><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">WHO --- 7 September 2007</span></b> -- A new international partnership was launched in London on Wednesday to strengthen health systems in some of the poorest countries in the world.
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Editorial</span></font></b><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> - <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">The Lancet, Volume 370, Number 9590, 8 September 2007
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">"…..<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Sept 5,</span></b> the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown launched the
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The support for this initiative is impressive: Ministers of Health from several developing countries in Africa and Asia, Ministers and Prime Ministers from donor countries, heads of, or high ranking officials from, international institutions such as WHO, The Global Fund, and the World Bank, and other major donors, such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, were all signatories to this partnership. But what does the International Health Partnership (IHP) mean for people living in poorer countries?
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="#333399" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333399; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The IHP is an agreement between donors and developing countries. Global and country level partnerships will set out a process of mutual responsibility and accountability for the development and implementation of the national health plans of developing countries. The overall aim of the IHP is to improve the coverage and use of health services—whether through public or private channels, or through non-governmental organisations—in order to deliver improved health outcomes, especially for the health-related MDGs, and other international commitments such as universal access to antiretroviral therapy. The IHP does not provide any new funding…."
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="times new roman,serif" size="1">WILL THIS WORK?? .....Naaaa! (sorry for being facetious) </font></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0in"><font face="times new roman,serif" size="1">Claudio (moderator) ....I'll be glad to hear from you otherwise.</font></p>
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