Health and development: bridging the gap
Dr. Fiona Samuels rounds up our blog series on health and the post-2015 development agenda, collecting the key messages from across the health sector on how future health goals should look.
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Bangladeshi sailors – characteristics, working conditions and HIV and AIDS-related vulnerabilities
Fiona Samuels, Mirza Manbira Sultana (CARE Bangladesh), Navneet Kaur (CARE India) and Surajit Chakraborty (CARE India)Drawing on small-scale qualitative studies in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, this new Project Briefing – part of the EMPHASIS (Enhancing Mobile Populations’ Access to HIV and AIDS Information Services and Support) project – focuses on Bangladeshi sailors' knowledge of HIV- and AIDS-related diseases. Although reported HIV-risk behaviour is low, the study highlights behaviours such as the low use of condoms and habits in visiting sex workers. -
Why neglected tropical diseases matter in reducing poverty
Fiona Samuels and Romina Rodríguez PoseThis working paper looks at the relationship between neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and poverty. -
What’s good for health is good for development. Or is it?
'We need to ask ourselves a different question: has the ‘what’s good for health is good for development’ approach actually advanced development progress?...' -
Pathways to health services for cross-border migrants living with HIV: Nepalese and Bangladeshis at home and in destination sites in India
Fiona Samuels, Mirza Manbira Sultana, Prokriti Nokrek, Abu Taher, Nabesh Bohidar, Bharat Gautam and Prabodh DevkotaDrawing on small-scale qualitative studies in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, this Project Briefing explores the experiences of people living with HIV as they migrate. -
South Sudan nurses and midwives march in Juba to mark International Day of the Nurse
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Credit: Elizabeth Deacon
Source: IRINTurning numbers into nurses: enhancing government spending on the MDGs
This ODI, Development Finance International and Oxfam event will launch Government Spending Watch – a new database that tracks what developing country governments are spending on achieving the MDGs.
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Evidence review on research for health in humanitarian crises
This project, carried out by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Harvard University and the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG), ODI, seeks to carry out an evidence review on research for health in humanitarian crises. -
Human resources for health in Nepal - the politics of access in remote areas
This country evidence note explores the political economy dynamics associated with attempts to ensure access to qualified human resources for health (HRH) in remote rural areas of Nepal where low ratios of skilled health personnel per head of population persist. -
Paying for progress: how will emerging post-2015 goals be financed in the new aid landscape?
This paper explores options for financing some of the potential post-2015 goals within the changing development cooperation landscape. It focusses on five sectors: education, health, water and sanitation, sustainable energy and food and agriculture. It asks whether – and how much – additional finance is needed to meet the likely goals; and looks at what this implies for the design of the post-2015 framework. -
Voices from the source: struggles with local water security in Ethiopia
Mengistu Dessalegn, Likimyelesh Nigussie, Wondwosen Michago, Josephine Tucker, Alan Nicol and Roger CalowWhat are the physical, social, economic and political drivers of water insecurity in different locations in Ethiopia? How have different communities responded to situations of water stress? What should be the public policy and institutional priorities to improve resilience to water stress at a local level, and reduce the negative impacts on communities? This assessment explores local water security in two very different sites in rural Ethiopia – a pastoral district in the eastern Somali region (Shinile), and a somewhat remote agricultural district in the south (Konso).