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By PLoS Medicine Blog
Image Credit: lilivanili Three new articled published this week in PLoS Medicine, including two magazine pieces on R&D: Diana Gibb and colleagues investigate the effect of in utero tenofovir exposure by analysing the pregnancy and infant outcomes of HIV-infected women enrolled in the DART trial. As part of a cluster of articles leading up to the 2012 World Health Report and critically reflecting on the theme of “no health without research,” Suerie Moon and colleagues argue for a global health R&D treaty to improve innovation in new medicines and strengthening affordability, sustainable financing, efficiency in innovation, and equitable health-centered governance. John-Arne Røttingen and Claudia Chamas, chairs of the the Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development (CEWG), summarize their recent report recommending to the World Health Assembly that a global health R&D convention be developed. Remember you can comment on, annotate and rate any PLoS Medicine article and see the views, citations and other indications of impact of an article on that articles metrics tab.
May 17th, 2012 | Posted in Financing,HIV/AIDS,Infectious Disease,Uncategorized | Read More »
By Kaiser GH Update
“The World Health Organization (WHO) is facing an unprecedented crisis that threatens its position as the premier international health agency. To ensure its leading role, it must rethink its internal governance and revamp its financing mechanisms,” Tikki Pang, a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore and former director of research policy and cooperation at the WHO, and Laurie Garrett, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, write in this Nature Medicine opinion piece. They note that the WHO “was born in the bifurcated Cold War world in 1948, and every aspect of its charter, mission and organizational structure was molded by diplomatic tensions between NATO and the USSR,” but “with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of the new emerging market superpowers, the WHO finds itself trying to straddle a global dynamic for which it was not designed.”
May 8th, 2012 | Posted in Financing,Kaiser's Global Health Update | Read More »
By Kaiser GH Update
The Results for Development Institute’s Center for Global Health R&D Policy Assessment blog features an interview with Judit Rius Sanjuan, U.S. manager of the Access Campaign of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), who discusses the final report of the WHO Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development: Financing and Coordination (CEWG). Sanjuan addresses “the origins, significance, and likely impact of the CEWG’s work,” according to the blog (Ghoshal, 5/2).
May 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Financing,Kaiser's Global Health Update | Read More »
By Center for Health Market Innovations
Consider the some of the most vulnerable populations of the world: children, refugees, HIV/AIDS patients and those residing in rural areas. Their needs and lives vary significantly from other groups, resulting in a greater need for access to the health market. In this batch of case studies, seven CHMI profiled programs address this challenge through a variety of means, spanning from using unique funding techniques to different methods of implementation.Eye care facility Sadguru Netra Chikitsalaya (SNC) of India makes use of the high volume, low cost method of patient care in order to keep treatment efficient. The organization is able to reduce the cost of each procedure they perform by focusing on one operation, such as cataract surgeries.
May 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Financing,Hub Selects | Read More »
By Center for Health Market Innovations
Dr. Angelo de Guzman is responsible for the health of 28,000 people on the Dinagat Islands in the Philippines, 700 miles southeast of Manila, the capital. This is not a small feat given the size and isolation of this population, and unfortunately Dr. Guzman’s case is not unique: doctors all over the developing world are trying to care for large rural populations without access to proper medical resources nor the specialized knowledge that they might need to cover all situations. To cope, doctors and health programs worldwide are innovating in the use of information technology to fill these gaps.
May 1st, 2012 | Posted in Financing,Hub Selects | Read More »
By Center for Health Market Innovations
Last Friday, I watched governors and business leaders in the Philippines stand up and commit their support to scaling up innovative public-private collaborations to reduce maternal mortality throughout this archipelago country. CHMI’s partner organization in the country, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) had brought four notable CHMI-profiled programs to exhibit here, raising awareness about the promising innovations they represent and inviting governors and private sector representatives to pledge their support for these and other initiatives.The 162-52 Summit was a very cool event. An initiative of a multi-sectoral coalition that formed after the Zuellig Family Foundation’s Third Health Outlook Forum held last December, the health summit was intended to raise awareness about maternal health issues. The numbers 162 and 52 refer to the maternal mortality ratios of the country, the former being the 2008 official figure while the latter is the 2015 Millennium Development Goal target which, at the rate things are going, the country might not be able to attain.Over 200 people attended the summit, held at the Philippine International Convention Center, including Health Secretary Enrique Ona, who delivered the speech of President Benigno Aquino III.Dr.
April 26th, 2012 | Posted in #GHDevent,Aid & Development,Financing,Women & Children | Read More »
By GlobalizationAndHealth
Background: In India, Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) and injuries account for an estimated 62% of the total age-standardized burden of forgone Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). Public and private financing of clinical services to reduce the NCD burden is a major challenge. Methods: We used National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) survey data from 1995-96 and 2004 covering nearly 200 thousand households to assess healthcare utilization patterns and out of pocket health spending by disease category. For this purpose, self-reported diseases and conditions were categorized into NCDs and non-NCDs. Survey data were used to assess how households financed their overall health expenditures and related this pattern to specific health conditions.
April 25th, 2012 | Posted in Financing,Noncommunicable Disease,Uncategorized | Read More »
By Center for Health Market Innovations
Build, measure, learn: those are the three steps set forth by Sasha Dichter, Chief Innovation Officer of the Acumen Fund, for creating innovation. Opening as the keynote speaker for the 2012 Unite for Sight Global Health and Innovation Conference held at Yale University yesterday, he did not deny that his plan came with challenges. Building and implementing ideas, measuring their impact and learning from those results can create disruptions at every step of the process. Still, Acumen-funded programs such as Aravind Eye Care System and LifeSpring Hospitals were just the disruptions needed to solve key health dilemmas in the world.These disruptive innovations are exactly what are called for today, added Rifat Atun of the Imperial College London.
April 23rd, 2012 | Posted in Aid & Development,Financing | Read More »
By Center for Health Market Innovations
Innovation and Health MarketsThis week, the Harvard Business Review disproves the idea that health innovations only travel from the rich to the poor in this blog. Through examples such as prosthetics made from recycled yogurt containers or heart surgery at just 10% of the cost in developed countries, readers can see that sometimes more money doesn’t always mean better innovations. As author Vijay Govindarajan points out, “Constraints need not be limiting, they can actually be liberating.” Check out programs such as the Aravind Eye Care and Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital who each work hard to provide high quality care at low cost to those who need it the most.“Philanthropy and entrepreneurship are really one and the same, but people tend to do them differently,” says entrepreneur Naveen Jain. He believes it’s time to fundamentally adjust the way people create innovative philanthropies, focusing on creating scalable, sustainable organizations.
April 14th, 2012 | Posted in Aid & Development,Financing,Hub Selects | Read More »
By Center for Health Market Innovations
The GlobalGiving Open Challenge is well under way and at least seven programs profiled in the CHMI database have entered the competition. The contest, which ends April 30th, gives entrants a chance at a permanent spot on the fundraising website and the CHMI programs are making a splash. Participants must raise at least $4000 through at least 50 individual donors to earn their places.Maternal and Child Health ProgramsGlobal Health Bridge, a technology-based maternal and child health program, has already secured a spot on GlobalGiving, raising almost $7,000 through 123 donors, but there are still bonus prizes that they can win. The organization is currently in 1st place in terms of numbers of individual donors, but 3rd for actual money donated.
April 13th, 2012 | Posted in Aid & Development,Financing | Read More »
By Center for Health Market Innovations
The Institute for Health Policy, Management, and Research (IHPMR), CHMI’s partner in East Africa, has kicked off a new award—the Health Innovations Awards (HIA)—meant to recognize the most promising programs identified in the region that have increased access to health services, improved quality of service delivery and or have provided financial protection to the poor and vulnerable.The launch of the HIA in Kenya was held on March 29 at the Fairmont Norfolk Hotel. This boosted the general HIA planning and organization process, geared towards the CHMI Gala Dinner on May 2, at the Sheraton Hotel in Kampala, Uganda. Winners will be invited to showcase their programs during the gala dinner.The launch had over 65 participants, including: Officials from the Ministry of Health Government of Kenya, Program Implementers, Donors, Researchers and members of the Kenya Healthcare Federation (KHF). The Media fraternity played a major role in promoting HIA event publicity, as clips of the launch were featured in News Bulletin of the day by some media houses.The keynote address was delivered by Dr.
April 9th, 2012 | Posted in Aid & Development,Financing | Read More »
By Center for Health Market Innovations
Last month, I visited Young Power in Social Action (YPSA), a local NGO based in Chittagong city, to experience its health care program. I found YPSA provides health care to different marginalized groups including garment workers, street based sex workers and women and children of river basin areas of Chittagong rural areas too. Built on the banks of the Karnaphuli River, the city is home to Bangladesh’s busiest seaport and has a population of over 5.5 million, making it the second largest city in the country.The health care program of YPSA primarily focuses on primary health care and reproductive health for the women. It uses a peer educator approach for changing health care behavior. YPSA recruited peer educators among garment workers and female sex workers to give encourage positive health seeking behavior and educate on prevention of HIV/AIDS in their respective groups.
April 5th, 2012 | Posted in Aid & Development,Financing | Read More »
By Center for Health Market Innovations
News of Kenya’s exciting and aggressive plans to expand universal health coverage (UHC) began making headlines in early 2012. The National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) announced a new partnership with the Kenya National Union of Teachers – one of the largest unions in Kenya – whereby NHIF will provide an affordable and comprehensive package of in and out-patient benefits to more than 1,300,000 teachers and their family members.In addition, NHIF is offering unlimited out and in-patient benefits for approximately 1,100,000 civil servants and their family members beginning on January 1, 2012. The NHIF is also seeking to extend the unlimited in and out-patient care benefits to the informal sector in a phased out manner. The first phase will start at the end of March and will cover some parts of the country.To gain a better understanding of the reforms that are currently taking place in Kenya, we recently sat down with Mr. Richard Kerich, CEO of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), to learn more about NHIF
April 3rd, 2012 | Posted in Financing,Policy & Systems | Read More »
By Center for Health Market Innovations
When considering non-communicable diseases, what first comes to mind? Most likely, issues of heart disease and diabetes will spring up. But what about the often neglected but incredibly pervasive problem of mental illness?According to the WHO’s 2011 Mental Health Atlas, neuropsychiatric disorders contribute to 13 percent of the global disease burden. Only 54 percent of 184 countries have community residential facilities, or group homes. Additionally, 23 percent of nations surveyed did not have a dedicated separate section for mental health policy outside of their general health policy.This lack of government attention has created a need for innovation within the field of mental health care, which we at The Banyan aim to fill.
March 29th, 2012 | Posted in Financing,Hub Selects,Noncommunicable Disease | Read More »
