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Good health = economic growth: A case for raising domestic African health financing

Good health = economic growth: A case for raising domestic African health financing

Pearl Alice just returned from the Conference of African Finance and Health Ministers in Tunis, Tunisia. The meeting of African Finance and Health Ministers in Tunisia last week tackled multiple challenges facing African health and finance policy makers. Chief among them is how to raise domestic finance for better health outcomes — a huge issue

Keeping African doctors in Africa

Keeping African doctors in Africa

Pearl Alice is live blogging from the Conference of African Finance and Health Ministers in Tunis, Tunisia this week. Yesterday in Tunis at the Conference of African Finance and Health Ministers, the Global Health Force Alliance launched its “Strategy for the Second Phase – 2013-2016” to continue to address the global health workforce shortage that

African health care financing meeting tackles MDGs

African health care financing meeting tackles MDGs

I am attending the Conference of African Finance and Health Ministers with African health advocates in Tunis, Tunisia this week to discuss how they plan to meet the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. We have less than three years to go to reach these goals, and Africa still accounts for 53 percent of

Bill Frist: Five good reasons not to cut global health investments

Bill Frist: Five good reasons not to cut global health investments

Heart-surgeon and former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has a compelling op-ed today in “The Week” that gives five good reasons not to cut global health investments — even in these tough economic times. Because of the generosity of American citizens, millions of lives are saved in poor countries all over the world. From Africa

Getting humanitarian food aid to Somalia

Getting humanitarian food aid to Somalia

Pearl Alice Marsh from ONE’s policy team explains what it takes to get food aid safely to those who need it most. The crisis in the Horn of Africa presents a major logistical challenge for the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and other international humanitarian organizations responding to the crisis. But moving emergency food

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