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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.
SLRC's Nepal Lead, Bishnu Upreti and Rachel Slater, SLRC Research Director look at how are people’s attitudes towards government are affected when accessing services in two countries simultaneously. After travelling to Ilam District in the far east of Nepal SLRC researchers found that the lack of health services in the district meant that people were crossing the border to go to clinics and hospitals in India.
The 2012 Annual Meeting of the World Bank and the IMF will take place in Tokyo. The Civil Society Organisation Forum will host this event on social accountability and health outcomes.
Over the next week thousands of delegates will arrive in Washington DC for the XIX International AIDS conference. Barack Obama’s decision to lift the travel ban on HIV-positive people means that for some it will be their first time on US soil. It’s a good moment to take stock of where we have come from, where we are going, and what we might be looking out for this week.
Dr Babken Babajanian spoke at a lecture at University College London on "Lessons for Global Health from India", and presented on "Addressing Social Exclusion in Health: RSBY Health Insurance in India".
