The International Health Partnership

The International Health Partnership was launched in September 2007 in order to respond to the MDG challenges that called for all signatories to accelerate action to scale-up coverage and use of health services, and deliver improved outcomes against the health- related MDGs and universal access commitments. Closely related initiatives have also been launched with the common aim to accelerate the achievement of the health-related MDGs in line with the Paris Declaration. The result: An inter-agency coordinated process and common work plan: IHP+ (International Health Partnership and related initiatives).
 
Key Principles: The focus of this process will be on health-related MDG outcomes. Increasing aid effectiveness, improving policy, strategy and health systems performance, and mobilizing all actors, including non-State actors, more efficiently are all means to an end; Actions will be country-focused and country-led. All activities will be contingent on country circumstances and will build on already existing structures, mechanisms and health plans in countries. They will be supported by dedicated regional and global activities, if necessary; The work will evolve as it brings together the support for the implementation of the IHP+ (e.g. Global Campaign for Health MDGs with focus on women and children according to MDG4 & 5, the Catalytic Initiative, Health Metrics Network, Global Health Workforce Alliance,
Providing for Health, etc).

International Health Partnership Objectives – 1] Develop 'country compacts' that commit development partners to provide sustained and predictable funding and increase harmonization and alignment in support of results orientated national plans and strategies that also tackle health system constraints; 2] Generate and disseminate knowledge, guidance, and tools in specific technical areas related to strengthening health systems and services; 3] Enhance coordination and efficiency as well as leverage predicable and sustained aid delivery for health; 4] Ensure mutual accountability and monitoring of performance.

Text and photograph courtesy International Health Partnership, a partner and Cooperating Organization with dgCommunity HIV/AIDS.

Muslim clerics declare war on condoms

Muslim leaders in Kenya's North Eastern Province have resolved to campaign against the promotion of condoms as a means of preventing HIV. "A lot of money is being wasted to poison our community ... a huge amount of money is spent on buying condoms, buying immorality," Sheikh Mohamud Ali, of Garissa district, told IRIN/PlusNews...

Added by  Laura Lopez Gonzalez, PlusNews  May 13, 2008
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With Women Worldwide - A Compact to End HIV/AIDS (IWHC)

Sexual and reproductive rights are a pivotal neglected priority in HIV/AIDS policy, programming and resource allocation. Failure to protect the human rights of girls and women, including their right to health and their right to live free of sexual coercion and violence, fuels the pandemic. Universal access to sexual and reproductive health service. . .

Added by  Anuradha Bhattacharjee  May 12, 2008
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Youth InfoNet 45

This issue of FHI's monthly e-newsletter on youth reproductive health and HIV prevention features 16 program resources with Web links, and 11 journal article summaries on research from Brazil, China, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, United States, and Zambia.

Added by  David Hock  May 12, 2008
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Campaign Launch of Women Won't Wait - Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Millennium Plaza Hotel, New York, New York. The "Women Won't Wait" press conference was the official launch of the campaign with Mary Robinson as the prominent speaker at the launch. Members of the eight-person panel introduced the "Women Won't Wait" campaign and its mission. The panelists' presentations highlighted the campaign's report, "Show Us . . .

Added by  Anuradha Bhattacharjee  May 12, 2008
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Being HIV Positive (or Being Perceived as Being HIV Positive) Can Increase the Risk of Violence

* Violence by a Sexual Partner - Often women are the first in a partnership to learn they are HIV positive (because of ante-natal testing, for instance), which can result in blame and violence from their partners; * Violence by Family/In-Laws/Friends/Community - Because of stigma, discrimination, and fear, a known HIV-positive sero-status can incre. . .

Added by  Anuradha Bhattacharjee  May 12, 2008
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VAW/G Increases the Risk of HIV Infection/Re-Infection

VAW/G Increases the Risk of HIV Infection/Re-Infection * Violent and/or Forced/Coerced Sex - Tears or lacerations in the vagina or anus increase the risk of HIV transmission. Violence, force, roughness, and vaginal/anal dryness can all increase the number of tears and lacerations in the vagina or anus. * Lack of Power to Negotiate Safer. . .

Added by  Anuradha Bhattacharjee  May 12, 2008
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Strengthening Resistance: Confronting Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS (2006)

Strengthening Resistance focuses on the points of intersection in the social, political and public health crises of violence against women and HIV/AIDS. The report uses a human rights lens to focus on critical political challenges and on innovative strategies used by activists worldwide as they respond to the links between violence and HIV/AIDS. Fr. . .

Added by  Anuradha Bhattacharjee  May 12, 2008
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HIV/AIDS and Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Literature Review

Program on International Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, August 2006. This is a review of publications addressing aspects of the intersection between gender-based violence (GBV) and HIV. A large body of literature exists on the negative impacts of societies’ stringent ascription of gender roles on vulnerability to HIV inf. . .

Added by  Anuradha Bhattacharjee  May 12, 2008
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Action for Global Health and Jeffrey Sachs issue rallying call to European Parliament

The regular "health slot" of the Development Committee of the European Parliament on 5 May was addressed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Advisor to UN Secretary-General on the MDGS, and Dr Alvaro Bermejo from Action For Global Health, both speaking on the needs for greater European action to achieve the health MDGs. The meeting commenced with a wide. . .

Added by  Anuradha Bhattacharjee  May 12, 2008
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New African Brain Drain threat looms

Scientists have warned of a looming exodus of health experts from Kenya and other African countries to meet demand in the West. "The UK needs 10,000 more doctors and 20,000 nurses, mostly from Africa because they are cheaper," reported a doctor interviewed by The East African Standard on 06 May. Medical experts attending a conference at Kisumu's. . .

Added by  Anuradha Bhattacharjee  May 12, 2008
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