Thanks to the GAVI Alliance’s innovative market shaping model and work in partnership with Merck and GlaxoSmithKline, the HPV vaccine will be made available in developing countries at a price of less than $5 per dose. The current price for HPV vaccines in the US is around $130 per dose.

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Introduction. Emerging Voices for Global Health (EV4GH) is a blended training program for young researchers on health research and scientific communication. EV4GH trains “Emerging Voices” to participate actively in international conferences and to raise their voice in the scientific debate. The Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Antwerp organised two previous editions of EV4GH. In 2010 EV4GH was linked to the First Global Symposium of Health Systems Research in Montreux, and in 2012 to the Second Global Symposium in Beijing

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With the World Bank Group’s 2013 Spring Meetings just around the corner, we’ve compiled a guide to the many live events happening. No matter where you are around the world, you can join the conversation all week via #wblive. Several featured events will be webcast and covered in multiple languages. Make sure to follow and participate in the week’s events in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish. Your thoughts and questions will help make the conversations happening both online and offline at this year’s Spring Meetings rich and diverse

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The papers in the Series explore the challenges of implementing new diagnostic tests, drugs, and drug regimens, each with the potential to radically improve the detection and management of TB.

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Oh wait, perhaps I should start at the beginning.

The beginning is a small, open cook fire; a feature that every home in this region has. In the cold winter months, most people spend more time in the kitchen, and huddle a little bit closer to the fire. Sometimes too close. This week alone, we have had 5 children in our inpatient department (IPD) with severe burns, one of whom passed away. The little girl who this story is about was more fortunate, though she has a long and painful recovery ahead of her. When her clothes caught fire, she suffered 2nd degree deep burns from her mid-abdomen to mid-thighs. Her family brought her to the nearest healthcare facility, which could not treat her injuries. Her mother then carried her for two days to reach the hospital.

The little girl’s name is Dila, and even with daily dressing changes, antibiotics, fluids, and observation, it was clear that her wounds needed advanced treatment. Barring infection her burns may eventually heal on their own, but even so, the resulting scar tissue would cause severe contracture, limiting her mobility and posing lifelong challenges. This is where Watsi, a fantastic organization that allows people to directly donate to an individual patient’s treatment, enters the picture. Dila’s family had no way of paying for advanced treatment, much less the multiple days of travel required to travel to a major city that they had never seen. In less than a day following the posting of her profile on the Watsi site, 13 donors from around the world changed Dila’s destiny. They provided her with the means to seek treatment; a fighting chance to grow up and live a normal life. Thus began our journey together.

As Dila was having her dressings changed, Ryan and I were packing our bags in preparation for our departure from Achham. Having received word that Dila’s profile was complete, her mother carried her, freshly bandaged, to our waiting jeep. The doctor handed me a syringe of morphine and asked if I knew how to push meds. I do now. Though 25% of her body is covered in severe burns, the only sounds Dila made throughout our winding, bumpy, 12-hour jeep ride were a few slight whimpers when we hit extra large ruts in the road. She only cried when I came near to give her medications; afraid that I might be trying to change her dressings. The rest of the time she lay there in complete, stoic silence.

The next day, we made our way to the airport, where Dila and her mother had to board a different plane than ours, as they had received last-minute tickets. Neither of them had even flown before, and I spent a moment reflecting on the injustice of a small girl being too badly injured to be able to look out the window on the world from above. The important thing though, was making sure that she was comfortable during the flight, and that she and her mother did not feel lost in the Kathmandu airport when they arrived. I fumbled with my limited Nepali phrases, all semblance of grammatical correctness lost, but managed to convey a few simple messages. After giving her one last dose of pain medicine, and hoping that she would sleep soundly through the flight, I stood on the runway and watched their plane set off, carrying them at hundreds of miles per hour toward a strange, new place. A place where Dila’s future has more options than infection versus contracture. A place where the technology exists to treat her injuries. A place of hope.

Dila underwent the first of multiple skin graft surgeries two days ago. Her condition is stable, and she still lies quietly in a hospital bed, waiting to see what comes next.

To read the article on the Nyaya Health blog, please follow the link here: nyayahealth.org/blog/a-place-of-hope

The goal of the session is to train leaders to effectively design and manage programs that improve health outcomes for the populations they serve. Applicants should have a demonstrated commitment to global health and experience in global health organizations, with a substantial background in health care or a related field. International candidates are encouraged to apply.

Applications and supporting documents must be received by March 1, 2013.

The intensive summer program consists of three credit-bearing courses led by senior Harvard faculty:

• Epidemiologic Methods for Global Health (2.5 credits): covers introductory level epidemiology and a biostatistics primer introducing basic principles of statistics, with a specific focus on problems related to global health.

• Value-Based Management in Global Health Care Delivery (1.25 credits):educates students in the fundamental principles of organizational behavior, strategy, operations management, leadership and financial accounting relevant for work in leading global health programs.

• Introduction to Global Health Care Delivery (2.5 credits): engages students in the analysis of case studies that describe efforts to improve health care delivery in resource-poor settings. Classroom discussion of these cases will illuminate principles and frameworks for the design of efficient and effective global health interventions.

The program is co-sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School, under the direction of Harvard faculty on the staff of Brigham and Women’s Hospital. This program is one of many developed by the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard University.

To learn more about the Global Health Delivery Summer Intensive (GHDI), and for application instructions, visit http://bit.ly/GHDI_Ghh13.

To access the GHD case studies that will be taught, please visit www.ghdonline.org/cases.

You may also contact ghe@globalhealthdelivery.org for more information.

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