November 2013  Vanguard; Private medical doctors under the auspices of the Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria, AGPMPN, Lagos Apapa Zone, have called for the review and appropriate funding of the country’s health sector with a view to enhancing efficiency as well as guarantee patients access to …

November 2013 ShopsProject; The time is now to build and sustain momentum for family planning to become institutionalized in the public and private health sectors in Nigeria. Every household must be positioned to make an informed choice on number of children they will have. All stakeholders must be positioned to …

November 2013 WHONewsLetter; Professor Thomas Zeltner: former Director-General of the Swiss National Health Authority and Secretary of Health of Switzerland, has a long history as an innovative and progressive leader in national and international public health. In June, WHO Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan appointed Professor Zeltner as her Special Envoy. …

November 2013 CentreforGlobalHealthPolicy; Dr. Jeffrey Sachs is shocked by how difficult it is to raise just $5 billion per year for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria. And he shared why, today, at a meeting hosted by the Friends of the Global Fight. It is a tiny …

October 2013 GaviAlliance; Lord Boateng of the UK Parliament helped kick-off the Mid-Term Review meeting by hosting a panel discussion exploring the importance of parliamentary commitment to immunisation- among MPs in donor and implementing countries Cross-party commitment Lord Boateng, MP, United Kingdom Parliament: “GAVI crosses all political boundaries. We come …

October 2013  CapitalFM;  British envoy to Kenya Christian Turner on Tuesday lauded the collaborative efforts between the private and public health organizations saying they have greatly boosted the improvement of the health sector in Kenya. Turner explained that preventable diseases such as diarrhoea, cholera, pneumonia, measles and tuberculosis that cause …

October 2013  TheLancetGlobalHealth; There is no substitute for either local knowledge or national leadership as the world moves towards the endgame in the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Increased country engagement, or so-called country ownership, in HIV and health programming is central to achieve adequate scale in service delivery, improve the acceptability of …

October 2013 news; “Unmet need”, in the context of family planning, is a rather mundane term that masks an urgent social justice and human rights issue. An estimated 220 million women in the world who want to manage their fertility, and plan their lives, do not have it, because they …

October 2013  NewVision; Every year, about 1,500 girls in Uganda die from complications resulting from unsafe abortion contributing to the slow progress to reduce the number of women who die due to pregnancy-related complications.   “Abortion is hidden in the heamorrhage and sepsis figures but it is not captured. They …

October 2013 TheAtlantic; Marco Rubio on Monday introduced the “Delay Until Fully Functional Act” to postpone the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate until six months after the government could certify “that the exchange website is fully functional.” Ten Democratic senators have now signed on to a letter, drafted by New Hampshire …