Health, Education, Social Protection News & Notes 23/2010

Health, Education, Social Protection
News & Notes 23/2010

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Table of Contents:
BOOKS ................................................................................ 4
Human Development Report 2010 - 20th Anniversary Edition ............................................... 4
Where There Is No Dentist: A book of methods, aids, and ideas for instructors at the village
level ......................................................................................................................................... 4
Diseases of Children in the Subtropics and Tropics ............................................................... 4
Atlas of Human Intestinal Protozoa......................................................................................... 5
Value for Money in Health Spending....................................................................................... 5
Improving Value in Health Care: Measuring Quality ............................................................... 5
Speaking Out: Case Studies on How Poor People Influence Decision-Making ..................... 6
Protecting Development Gains: Reducing Disaster Vulnerability and Building Resilience in
Asia and the Pacific................................................................................................................. 6
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS .................................................... 6

HIV - AIDS - STI ........................................................................................................... 6
Universal Access: Right Here, Right Now............................................................................... 6
Breastfeeding and HIV: experiences from a decade of prevention of postnatal HIV
transmission in sub-Saharan Africa ........................................................................................ 7
Will circumcision provide even more protection from HIV to women and men? New
estimates of the population impact of circumcision interventions ........................................... 7
Male circumcision: a possible silver bullet to reduce the spread of HIV? ............................... 7
Home self-testing for HIV: AIDS exceptionalism gone wrong................................................. 8
How to integrate water, sanitation and hygiene into HIV programmes................................... 8
HIV treatment in the criminal justice system ........................................................................... 8
HIV: A New Diagnosis ............................................................................................................. 9
Sexual & Reproductive Health ..................................................................................... 9
Unmet need for family planning in Pakistan - PDHS 2006-2007: It’s time to re-examine déjà
vu............................................................................................................................................. 9
Umbrellas - A Training Resource on Religion and Sexuality Issues....................................... 9
Maternal & Child Health ............................................................................................. 10
Dispatch - Campaign to End Fistula: May 2010.................................................................... 10
Campaign to End Fistula ....................................................................................................... 10
Every Last Child: Eradicating Polio Worldwide ..................................................................... 10
Malaria........................................................................................................................ 10
Malaria Elimination ................................................................................................................ 10
Operational strategies to achieve and maintain malaria elimination..................................... 11
Impact of national malaria control scale-up programmes in Africa: magnitude and attribution
of effects ................................................................................................................................ 11
Malaria in children ................................................................................................................. 11
Efficacy and safety of artemether-lumefantrine compared with quinine in pregnant women
with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria: an open-label, randomised, non-
inferiority trial ......................................................................................................................... 12
Tuberculosis ............................................................................................................... 12
Picking Up the Pace - Scale-Up of MDR Tuberculosis Treatment Programs....................... 12
HESP-News & Notes - 23/2010 - page 1

Other Infectious Diseases .......................................................................................... 12
Confronting Global Pandemics: Lessons from China and the U.S. ...................................... 12
Control of the neglected tropical diseases needs a long-term commitment ......................... 13
Essential Medicines.................................................................................................... 13
A counterfeit drug treaty: great idea, wrong implementation ................................................ 13
Strengthening our natural defences: a new drug candidate and a new approach to fighting
infectious diseases ................................................................................................................ 14
Social Protection ........................................................................................................ 14
“Safety Nets How To” Online Toolkit (version 1)................................................................... 14
Rethinking social protection using a gender lens.................................................................. 14
Gender, politics and social protection: Why social protection is ‘gender blind’..................... 14
How to design and implement gender-sensitive social protection programmes................... 15
Social protection in Asia: research findings and policy lessons............................................ 15
Human Resources...................................................................................................... 15
Uganda Case Study: Enhancing health worker and health system performance................. 15
The challenges of achieving high training coverage for IMCI: case studies from Kenya and
Tanzania................................................................................................................................ 16
Global standards for the initial education of professional nurses and midwives................... 16
How to create an attractive and supportive working environment for health professionals.. 16
Health Systems & Research ...................................................................................... 17
Analysing Health Systems To Make Them Stronger ............................................................ 17
Health Management Information System for Hospitals......................................................... 17
Information & Communication Technology ................................................................ 17
Connecting medical specialists in rural hospitals.................................................................. 17
Telehealth in the Developing World ...................................................................................... 18
Education ................................................................................................................... 18
Minimum Standards for Education : Preparedness, Response, Recovery........................... 18
Guidebook for planning education in emergencies and reconstruction ................................ 18
SAIDE Multimedia Teacher Education Series....................................................................... 19
How successful are HIV-AIDS prevention education programmes?..................................... 19
Education for children with disabilities - improving access and quality................................. 19
The Economic Impact of School Violence: A Report for Plan International.......................... 19
Prevention pays: the economic benefits of ending violence in schools ................................ 20
Harm Reduction and Drug Use .................................................................................. 20
Synthetics Monitoring: Analyses, Reporting and Trends (SMART) Update ......................... 20
Millennium Development Goals.................................................................................. 20
The New Bottom Billion and the MDGs – A Plan of Action................................................... 20
Disaster proofing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) ............................................ 21
Development Assistance............................................................................................ 21
Health and Development: Global Update.............................................................................. 21
Commitment to Development Index (CDI) 2010 ................................................................... 21
Countdown to 2015: assessment of official development assistance to maternal, newborn,
and child health, 2003-08 ...................................................................................................... 22
Aid Effectiveness: Why does it matter to partners in South-South cooperation? ................. 22
Quality of Official Development Assistance Assessment...................................................... 22
Publish What You Fund: Aid Transparency Assessment 2010 ............................................ 23
How Can Donors Create Incentives for Results and Flexibility for Fragile States? .............. 23
Brazil: an emerging aid player............................................................................................... 23
Good Practice Guide to Public Engagement in Development Schemes .............................. 23
Where Have All the Donors Gone? Scarce Donor Funding for Non-Communicable Diseases
............................................................................................................................................... 24
Others......................................................................................................................... 24
Corruption Perceptions Index 2010....................................................................................... 24
The Open Budget Survey 2010............................................................................................. 24
Faith-Based Organizations and Service Delivery: Some Gender Conundrums ................... 25
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES ............................................ 25

New database on conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs in LAC ................................... 25
Safety Nets Publications Database....................................................................................... 25
Free access to all Routledge / Taylor & Francis Journals..................................................... 25

100 countries with free access to The Cochrane Library's database of health-related
Systematic Reviews .............................................................................................................. 26
Global Atlas of the Health Workforce .................................................................................... 26
The Lancet Core Clinical Collection ...................................................................................... 26
Digital Development Debates................................................................................................ 27
Bulletin of the World Health Organization (BLT) ................................................................... 27
The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries ................................................................. 27
African Journal of Health Professions Education (AJHPE)................................................... 27
Interagency Gender Working Group's (IGWG) Gender and Health Toolkit .......................... 28
Condom Use eToolkit............................................................................................................28
INTERESTING WEB SITES .............................................. 28

The Online Mental Health Community .................................................................................. 28
Global Polio Eradication Initiative.......................................................................................... 28
capacity4dev.eu - Connecting the Development Community ............................................... 28
Open Educational Resources ............................................................................................... 29
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES............................................ 29
Knowledge Management for Development ........................................................................... 29
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Poverty Reduction, Reproductive Health and
Health Sector Reform............................................................................................................ 29
CONFERENCES................................................................ 30
13th Annual Scientific Conference of ICDDR,B .................................................................... 30
3rd International Conference on Health Financing in Developing and Emerging Countries 30
4th Eurasia Congress of Infectious Diseases ....................................................................... 30
CARTOON ......................................................................... 31
British Telecom...................................................................................................................... 31
TIPS & TRICKS ................................................................. 31

Virus Total ............................................................................................................................. 31
Side by Side in MS PowerPoint ............................................................................................ 32
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BOOKS
Human Development Report 2010 - 20th Anniversary Edition
The Real Wealth of Nations: Pathways to Human Development
by Jeni Klugman, Francisco Rodríguez, Hyung-Jin Choi et al.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), 4th November, 2010
236 pp. 10.9 MB(!):

http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/HDR_2010_EN_Complete.pdf
This year’s Report celebrates the contributions of the human development approach,
which is as relevant as ever to making sense of our changing world and finding ways to
improve people’s well-being. The Report is also about how the human development ap-
proach can adjust to meet the challenges of the new millennium. Addressing these is-
sues requires new tools. In this Report three measures to the HDR family of indices are
introduced: the Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index, the Gender Inequality
Index and the Multidimensional Poverty Index.
***
Where There Is No Dentist: A book of methods, aids, and ideas for instruc-
tors at the village level
Updated September 2010
by Murray Dickson
Hesperian, Berkeley CA, USA, Price: US$ 14.00
238 pp. 6.5 MB:

http://hesperian.info/assets_org/dentist/wtndentist_2010_Web_Full_Book.pdf
Community health workers, educators and individuals from around the world use
“Where There Is No Dentist” to help people care for their teeth and gums. The author
uses straightforward language and careful instructions to explain how to: examine pa-
tients; diagnose common dental problems; make and use dental equipment; use local
anesthetics; place fillings; and remove teeth. There is also a special chapter on oral
health and HIV/AIDS, which provides the dental worker with a detailed, well-illustrated
discussion of the special problems faced by people living with HIV/AIDS, and appropri-
ate treatment.
***
Diseases of Children in the Subtropics and Tropics
by Paget Stanfield, Martin Brueton, Michael Chan et al.

This is the fourth edition of this book that was last published in 1991. It was scanned and converted
to text using Optical Character Recognition.
1092 pp. 28.4 MB(!):

http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/userfiles/pdf/Diseases%20of%20Children.pdf
The fourth edition of this book incorporates significant advances in tech-

nical knowledge and also takes into account the widening role of paediatricians in the
health care of children in developing countries. As in earlier editions, it seeks to provide
paediatricians with an up-to-date review of the diseases of children encountered in the

tropics, together with their diagnosis and treatment, with particular reference to the prac-
tical management of difficult problems facing the busy doctor.
***
Atlas of Human Intestinal Protozoa
by Giovanni Swierczynski and Bruno Milanesi

Fondazione Ivo de Carneri Onlus
Download the atlas, packed with pkzip [176 MB(!)]

http://www.atlas-protozoa.com/download/ATLAS.zip
Procedure to create the DVD Atlas-Protozoa:

1. Unpack the downloaded file
2. Burn the contents of the folder on DVD (or USB stick)
3. If the DVD (or USB stick) does not start, double-click the file ATLAS-PROTOZOA.exe
The aim of this multimedia atlas is to furnish a valid support for the diagnosis of the in-
testinal protozoan infections. The analytical procedures, feasible by most laboratories,
are described in a simple but exhaustive way, and the atlas comprises a rich iconogra-
phy with over 370 diagnostic images of intestinal protozoa. Classical diagnostic images
of parasites are shown, but also unusual forms of them and artifacts, that can make the
microscopic diagnosis difficult.
***
Value for Money in Health Spending
by Michael Borowitz, David Morgan, Eva Orosz et al.

OECD Health Policy Studies, Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD), 2010
204 pp. 2.6 MB:

http://browse.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/pdfs/browseit/8110141E.PDF
Health spending continues to rise inexorably, growing faster than the economy in most
OECD countries. Most of this spending comes from the public purse. Given the recent
economic downturn, countries are looking for ways to improve the efficiency of health
spending. This publication examines current efforts to improve health care efficiency, in-
cluding tools that show promise in helping health systems provide the best care for their
money, such as pay for performance, co-ordination of care, health technology assess-
ment and clinical guidelines, pharmaceutical re-imbursement and risk-sharing agree-
ments, and information and communication technology.
***
Improving Value in Health Care: Measuring Quality
by Niek Klazinga, Sandra Garcia-Armesto, Ian Brownwood et al.

OECD Health Policy Studies, Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD), 2010
110 pp. 1.5 MB:

http://german-practice-collection.org/en/download-centre/doc_download/866
Many health policies depend on our ability to measure the quality of care accurately. If

policy makers are serious about improving the body of evidence on the quality of care,
they need to improve their health information systems. This publication describes what
international comparable quality measures are currently available and how to link these
measures to quality policies such as accreditation, practice guidelines, pay-for-
performance, national safety programmes and quality reporting.
***
Speaking Out: Case Studies on How Poor People Influence Decision-

Making
Edited by Nikki van der Gaag and Jo Rowlands

Oxfam Great Britain (GB), December 2009
148 pp. 668 kB:

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/downloads/prog_insights/prog
_insights_speaking_out_book_pap.pdf
This book focuses on how the right to be heard can strengthen the participation of eco-
nomically poor people in formulating public policy and enable them to hold decision-
makers accountable. According to the Introduction, the right to be heard is about “ena-
bling people to actively draw on their civil and political rights to achieve their social, eco-
nomic, and cultural rights. It is about finding ways to ensure that governance structures
are responsive to the needs and wishes of [economically] poor people.”
***
Protecting Development Gains: Reducing Disaster Vulnerability and Build-

ing Resilience in Asia and the Pacific
The Asia-Pacific Disaster Report, 2010
Editors Zengpei Xuan and Jerry Velasquez

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pa-
cific (UNESCAP), October 2010
156 pp. 8.3 MB:

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900sid/EGUA-8ALSJM/$file/ESCAP-ISDR-
Asia-Pacific-Disaster-Report-2010.pdf?openelement
People of the Asia-Pacific region are four times more likely to be affected by natural dis-
asters than those living in Africa, and 25 times more likely than those living in Europe or
North America. There has long been a gap in understanding of the scale of risks and
losses in a disaster-prone region where disasters have such disproportionate impacts
on human development. To address this glaring information and knowledge gap, ES-
CAP and UNISDR joined hands and produced for the first time, the Asia and Pacific
Disaster Report 2010.
***
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
HIV - AIDS - STI
Universal Access: Right Here, Right Now

International AIDS Society, October 2010
28 pp. 1.6 MB:

http://www.iasociety.org/Web/WebContent/File/102080_IASY_Univ
ersalAccessReport.pdf
This report aims to highlight key outcomes from the XVIII International AIDS Conference
held in Vienna, Austria in July 2010, including taking stock of where we are now in terms
of international access to treatment and prevention as well as dealing with current chal-
lenges to reaching universal access and charting the way forward in scaling up to
achieve universal access.
***
Breastfeeding and HIV: experiences from a decade of prevention of post-

natal HIV transmission in sub-Saharan Africa
by Karen Marie I Moland, Marina M de Paoli, Dan W Sellen et al.

International Breastfeeding Journal 2010, 5:10 (26 October 2010)
21 pp. 136 kB:

http://www.internationalbreastfeedingjournal.com/content/pdf/1746-4358-5-10.pdf
The thematic series, “Infant feeding and HIV: lessons learnt and ways ahead” highlights
the multiple challenges that HIV-infected women, infant feeding counsellors and health
systems have encountered trying to translate and implement the shifting infant feeding
recommendations in different local contexts in sub-Saharan Africa. As a background for
the seven papers making up the series, this editorial reviews the changes in the guide-
lines in view of the roll out of prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) pro-
grammes in sub-Saharan Africa between 2001 and 2010.
***
Will circumcision provide even more protection from HIV to women and
men? New estimates of the population impact of circumcision interven-
tions
by Timothy B Hallett, Ramzi A Alsallaq, Jared M Baeten et al.

Sex Transm Infect - published online October 21, 2010
6 pp. 216 kB:

http://sti.bmj.com/content/early/2010/10/21/sti.2010.043372.full.pdf
Mathematical modelling has indicated that expansion of male circumcision services in

high HIV prevalence settings can substantially reduce population level HIV transmission.
The authors conclude that communities, and especially women, may benefit much more
from circumcision interventions than had previously been predicted, and these results
provide an even greater imperative to increase scale-up of safe male circumcision ser-
vices.
***
Male circumcision: a possible silver bullet to reduce the spread of HIV?
by Elizabeth Zishiri
Consultancy Africa Intelligence (CAI) HIV & AIDS Discussion Paper
4 October 2010

4 pp. 527 kB:
http://www.aidsportal.org/repos/CAI%20HIVAIDS%20Discussion%20Paper%20-
%204%20October%202010%20-%201.pdf
This discussion paper supports male circumcision as an intervention to curb the spread
of HIV because it does help reduce 60% of female to male infection but it also empha-
sises its shortcomings. In some circles, male circumcision is being touted as ‘the silver
bullet’, almost as a cure for HIV. Campaigns should make it a point to clarify what male
circumcision can do and the fact that it has its shortcomings.
***
Home self-testing for HIV: AIDS exceptionalism gone wrong
by Marlise Richter, W D Francois Venter, Andy Gray

S Afr Med J, October 2010, Vol. 100, No. 10
4 pp. 107 kB:

http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/viewFile/4198/2959
Self-tests for HIV in South Africa are currently unregulated. The country
lacks an effective regulating mechanism for diagnostic tests, which brings the quality
and reliability of all self-tests into question. The authors argue for greater access to, and
availability of, quality HIV self-tests. This strategy will encourage regular HIV testing, al-
lay fears about stigma and confidentiality when testing in public facilities, and decrease
the costs associated with traditional voluntary counselling and testing, and is likely to
lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment of HIV.
***
How to integrate water, sanitation and hygiene into HIV programmes
by Renuka Bery and Julia Rosenbaum

World Health Organization, 2010
134 pp. 1.3 MB:

http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADT495.pdf
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices are essential for maintaining people's
health and dignity. People with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have an increased
risk of diarrhoeal diseases, which can decrease their life expectancy and quality of life,
and increase the burden on their families and caregivers. This document is the first
comprehensive guide to integrating WASH practices into HIV.
***
HIV treatment in the criminal justice system
by M-J Milloy and Evan Wood

HIV-Therapy, September 2010, Vol. 4, No. 5, pp. 519-522
4 pp. 496 kB:

http://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/pdf/10.2217/hiv.10.43
The advent of HAART has resulted in a dramatic decline in HIV-related morbidity and

mortality among those accessing HIV treatment. Still, some sero-positive populations
have not benefited equally from advancements in HIV treatment. Coverage of HAART
among injection drug users (IDU) remains low, not only in areas such as the Russian
Federation and other countries of the former Soviet Union and China, where a substan-
tial and increasing proportion of new infections are linked to injection drug use, but also
in settings with advanced healthcare systems.
***
HIV: A New Diagnosis
by Rick Franklin
Auckland Sexual Health, 2010
56 pp. 1.7 MB:

http://www.positivewomen.co.nz/pdf/HIV%20A%20New%20Diagnosis.pdf
This booklet is for any person who is diagnosed with HIV, regardless of gender, sexual-
ity or cultural background. The booklet details how the virus affects the body, offers ad-
vice on how to manage one’s life as a person living with HIV and provides suggestions
on how to make decision around treatments, sex, telling people and your legal rights.
Sexual & Reproductive Health
Unmet need for family planning in Pakistan - PDHS 2006-2007: It’s time to
re-examine déjà vu
by Babar T Shaikh
Open Access Journal of Contraception, October 2010, Vol. 2010:1, pp. 113-118
6 pp. 180 kB:

http://www.dovepress.com/getfile.php?fileID=7973
The recent data on unmet need in the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2006-
2007 shows a high unmet need for contraceptives, although family planning programs
have been in place in this country since the late 1950s. The phenomenon presents a
complex picture, as the contraceptive prevalence rate has remained almost unchanged
over the last 10 years. To analyze this situation, a novel technique or a new lens would
be required. This paper attempts to examine the problem at various levels: users, family,
community, health system, other sectors, and the state.
***
Umbrellas - A Training Resource on Religion and Sexuality Issues
by Peter Labouchere, Bridges of Hope, January 2010
8 pp. 117 kB:

http://www.bridgesofhope.info/umbrellas.pdf
Developed for use by faith-based organisations (FBOs), this training resource is de-
signed to explore and help reconcile religious and moral principles and teachings
around love, sex, sin, HIV, condom use, and caring responsibly for one’s own health
and the health of others.

Maternal & Child Health
Dispatch - Campaign to End Fistula: May 2010
UNFPA Campaign to End Fistula
8 pp. 2.6 MB:

http://www.endfistula.org/Dispatch-May2010-PDF_links_eng.pdf
Dispatch is a biannual newsletter featuring recent developments in the

Campaign to End Fistula at global, regional and national levels. The 2010 Spring edition
features stories from the field, results of the mid-term evaluation of the UNFPA compo-
nents within the Campaign and preparations for the Women Deliver Conference in
Washington, DC. Read about the new fistula center slated to open in 2010 in Bangla-
desh, how Haiti is working to fill the data gap on obstetric fistula in the country and much
more.
***
Campaign to End Fistula

The Maternal Health Thematic Fund Annual Report 2009
Accelerating Progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), 2010
24 pp. 1.1 MB:

http://www.endfistula.org/fistula_report_2009_final_cor.pdf
UNFPA's Maternal Health Thematic Fund represents a focused effort to accelerate pro-
gress towards saving women's lives and achieving universal access to reproductive
health, as outlined in the Millennium Development Goal 5. The full annual report 2009
outlines the activities, results and achievements from a very busy year and looks ahead
at future challenges.
***
Every Last Child: Eradicating Polio Worldwide

UN Special No 698 - Septembre 2010
by Bruce Aylward, Director, WHO Polio Eradication Initiative
56 pp. 6.3 MB:

http://www.unspecial.org/UNS698/UnSpecial_Septembre_2010_WEB.pdf
The cover story in this issue of the UN Special is the last will and testament of one of
humanity’s most deadly scourges, poliomyelitis. To overcome the final challenges in the
few parts of the world where polio clung on, an independent evaluation and assessment
of innovative strategies using new tools were carried out in 2009, leading to a new stra-
tegic plan.
Malaria
Malaria Elimination
The Lancet Initiative launched in London, October 29, 2010
Find series articles at: http://www.thelancet.com/malaria-elimination

Download the Executive Summary for Lancet Series (8 pp. 1.3 MB):
http://download.thelancet.com/flatcontentassets/series/malaria-
elimination.pdf
In recent years, tackling malaria has received a surge of attention,

including increased resources that have led to a dramatic expansion
of malaria control interventions and subsequent reductions in disease burden in some
parts of the world. In the past 150 years the strategy to gradually eliminate malaria
worldwide has shown remarkable progress. The Lancet puts malaria elimination under
the microscope and examines the technical, operational, and financial challenges that
confront malaria-eliminating countries.
***
Operational strategies to achieve and maintain malaria elimination
by Bruno Moonen, Justin M Cohen, Robert W Snow et al.

The Lancet, Early Online Publication, 29 October 2010
This is one article in a series of four papers about malaria elimination:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/onlinefirst
12 pp. 381 kB:

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS014067361061269X.pdf?i
d=3d35b1b5aa0ec416:4acc427a:12bf8ccb15e:-13bb1288372401365
To eliminate malaria, programmes need to concentrate on identification and elimination

of foci of infections through both passive and active methods of case detection. This ap-
proach needs appropriate treatment of both clinical cases and asymptomatic infections,
combined with targeted vector control. Draining of infectious pools entirely will not be
sufficient since they could be replenished by imported malaria. Elimination will thus addi-
tionally need identification and treatment of incoming infections before they lead to
transmission.
***
Impact of national malaria control scale-up programmes in Africa: magni-

tude and attribution of effects
by Richard W Steketee and Carlos C Campbell

Malaria Journal 2010, 9:299 (27 October 2010)
47 pp. 1.1 MB:

http://www.malariajournal.com/content/pdf/1475-2875-9-299.pdf
Several factors potentially have contributed to recent health improvement in African

countries, but there is substantial evidence that achieving high malaria control interven-
tion coverage, especially with insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs), and targeted in-
door residual spraying (IRS), has been the leading contributor to reduced child mortality.
The documented impact provides the evidence required to support a global commitment
to the expansion and long-term investment in malaria control to sustain and increase the
health impact that malaria control is producing in Africa.
***
Malaria in children
by Jane Crawley, Cindy Chu, George Mtove, François Nosten

The Lancet Vol. 375, pp. 1468-1481, April 24, 2010
14 pp. 967 kB:

http://mail.elsevier-alerts.com/AEM/Clients/EHS001/article_malariainchildren.pdf
This Seminar, which is aimed at clinicians who manage children with malaria, especially
in resource-poor settings, discusses present knowledge and controversies in relation to
the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of malaria in
children.
***
Efficacy and safety of artemether-lumefantrine compared with quinine in

pregnant women with uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria: an
open-label, randomised, non-inferiority trial
by Patrice Piola, Carolyn Nabasumba, Eleanor Turyakira et al.

The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Vol. 10, Issue 11, pp. 762-769, Novem-
ber 2010
9 pp. 228 kB (free registration required):

http://www.malarianexus.com/articles/read/99/efficacy-and-safety-of-
artemether-lumefantrine-compared-with-quinine-in-pregnant-women-with-
uncomplicated-plasmodium-falciparum-malaria-an-open-label-randomised-non-inferiority-trial/
In 2006, WHO recommended use of artemisinin-based combination treatments during

the second or third trimesters of pregnancy, but data on efficacy and safety in Africa
were scarce. The authors aimed to assess whether artemether-lumefantrine was at
least as efficacious as oral quinine for the treatment of uncomplicated falciparum ma-
laria during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy in Mbarara, Uganda. They
conclude that artemisinin derivatives are not inferior to oral quinine for the treatment of
uncomplicated malaria in pregnancy and might be preferable on the basis of safety and
efficacy.
Tuberculosis
Picking Up the Pace - Scale-Up of MDR Tuberculosis Treatment Programs
by Salmaan Keshavjee and Paul E. Farmer

N Engl J Med 2010; 363:1781-1784, November 4, 2010
4 pp. 685 kB:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMp1010023
Addressing the MDR tuberculosis epidemic will require critical transformation in four ar-
eas: diagnostics, drug supply, treatment implementation, and advocacy. Facing this epi-
demic will require engaging new players in the fight against tuberculosis; it will require
courageous steps and a globalized approach, drawing on new public and private part-
nerships. We may not have much time before this epidemic overtakes our capacity to
stop tuberculosis.
Other Infectious Diseases
Confronting Global Pandemics: Lessons from China and the U.S.

by Rachel D. Schwartz and Jonathan Schwartz
Global Health Governance, Volume III, No. 2 (Spring 2010)
21 pp. 126 kB:

http://www.ghgj.org/Schwartz%20and%20Schwartz_Confronting%20Global%20P
andemics.pdf
The Chinese response to the 2003 outbreak of SARS, though initially slow, led to impor-
tant changes in the Chinese public health system which informed its later response to
diseases like H1N1. Despite differences between the U.S. and Chinese public health,
political and legal systems, many lessons can be drawn by the U.S., while lessons
learned in the U.S. from its response to H1N1 as well as WHO research should be ap-
plied in China. Such sharing of pandemic response experiences and strategies will
strengthen not only individual country responses but also those of the global community
as a whole.
***
Control of the neglected tropical diseases needs a long-term commitment
by Yaobi Zhang, Chad MacArthur, Likezo Mubila and Shawn K Baker

BMC Medicine 2010, 8:67 (29 October 2010)
25 pp. 150 kB:

http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1741-7015-8-67.pdf
The current level of funding for the control of neglected tropical diseases has never
been seen before, but it is still not enough to scale up to the 2 billion people in all en-
demic countries. While more donors are sought, the stakeholders must work in a coor-
dinated and harmonised way to identify the priority areas and the best delivery ap-
proaches to use the current funds to the maximum effect. For a long-term and sustain-
able effort, control of neglected tropical diseases should also be integrated into national
primary healthcare systems.
Essential Medicines
A counterfeit drug treaty: great idea, wrong implementation
by Roger Bate and Amir Attaran

The Lancet, Vol. 376, Issue 9751, pp. 1446-1448, 30 October 2010
3 pp. 115 kB:

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS014067361061416X.pdf?i
d=3d35b1b5aa0ec416:4acc427a:12bf85ad517:28b11288366932759
Drug counterfeiting is a globalised public health crisis. Outside advanced countries, per-
haps 15% of the global drug supply is counterfeit, rising in parts of Africa and Asia to
over 50%. It is a trade that kills: in some countries’ markets, over half of artesunate
treatments for Plasmodium falciparum malaria were counterfeits, containing no active
ingredient. The authors applaud the notion of a treaty to combat counterfeit drugs. Yet,
the treaty should be initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO). Probably no
other entity can do it - and it must be done.
***

Strengthening our natural defences: a new drug candidate and a new ap-
proach to fighting infectious diseases
by Carlos Fioravanti
The Lancet Student, September 2nd, 2010
Read online at:

http://www.thelancetstudent.com/2010/09/02/strengthening-our-natural-defences-a-new-
drug-candidate-and-a-new-approach-to-fighting-infectious-diseases/
A versatile new drug candidate called P-Mapa along with a new proposal to fight infec-
tious diseases have emerged in Brazil. They are the result of collaboration among non-
academic and academic groups in Brazil, Chile and the US led by the non-profit re-
search network Farmabrasilis.
Social Protection
“Safety Nets How To” Online Toolkit (version 1)

A Resource Guide for Practitioners
The World Bank, October 2010
http://www.worldbank.org/safetynets/howto
“Safety Nets How To” is a resource guide for practitioners involved in the design and
implementation of social protection systems. It pulls together summary information,
country cases and guidelines on key processes and cross-cutting issues, with lessons
for everyday programme implementation.
***
Rethinking social protection using a gender lens
by Rebecca Holmes and Nicola Jones

Overseas Development Institute, October 2010
57 pp. 1.8 MB:

http://www.odi.org.uk/resources/download/5099.pdf
This paper synthesises findings from a multi-country research project examining the ex-
tent to which existing social protection programming approaches are reinforcing
women’s traditional roles and responsibilities, or harnessing the potential for social pro-
tection to transform gender relations in economic and social spheres.
***
Gender, politics and social protection: Why social protection is ‘gender

blind’
by Nicola Jones and Rebecca Holmes

4 pp. 252 kB:


This briefing paper explores the political economy of social protection and its effects on
gender relations, drawing on interviews, household surveys, focus group discussions
and life histories in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
***
How to design and implement gender-sensitive social protection pro-

grammes
by Rebecca Holmes and Nicola Jones

68 pp. 10.5 MB(!):

This toolkit aims to support policy makers, programme designers, and programme im-
plementers to apply a much-needed gender lens to debates around social protection. It
provides technical and practical guidance on how to integrate a gender perspective into
social protection from the first steps of designing a programme, to programme imple-
mentation, monitoring, and evaluation.
***
Social protection in Asia: research findings and policy lessons

Programme Synthesis Report 2010
by Naila Kabeer, Sarah Cook, Deepta Chopra et al.

Social Protection in Asia (SPA) Research Programme, 2010
56 pp. 4.5 MB:

http://zunia.org/uploads/media/knowledge/SPASynthReportweb128
8849741.pdf
This synthesis report presents research findings and draws out policy lessons from 11
research projects, with three key elements: tracking the politics that leads governments
to invest in social protection agendas; showing social protection to be not purely a state
activity or a civil society activity, but drawing on the strengths of both; and presenting
our conscious efforts to study ourselves as researchers within research to policy path-
ways.
Human Resources
Uganda Case Study: Enhancing health worker and health system perform-
ance
by Charles W. Matsiko
For the Positive Practice Environments Campaign, October 2010
47 pp. 2.4 MB:

http://www.ppecampaign.org/sites/ppecampaign.org/files/images/
Publications-Uganda-PPE-CS.pdf
The study explores the current key issues facing the health human resource climate in
Uganda with particular attention to practice environments, recruitment and retention of

the health workforce. The case study outlines the country specific approaches being
employed to address the current challenges, in addition to making recommendations to
inform the future strategic direction. It also contributes to the knowledge base being
amassed by WHO related to “Increasing access to the health workforce in remote and
rural areas through improved retention”.
***
The challenges of achieving high training coverage for IMCI: case studies
from Kenya and Tanzania
Hildegalda P Mushi, Kethi Mullei, Janet Macha et al.

Health Policy Plan (2010) - Advance Access published November 2, 2010
10 pp. 107 kB:

http://heapol.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/11/02/heapol.cz
q068.full.pdf+html
Health worker training is a key component of the integrated management of childhood

illness (IMCI). However, training coverage remains low in many countries. The main bar-
rier to expanding coverage was the cost of training due to its duration, the number of fa-
cilitators and its residential nature. Levels of domestic and donor support for IMCI have
diminished over time in favour of vertical programmes, partly due to the difficulty in
monitoring and measuring the impact of an integrated intervention like IMCI.
***
Global standards for the initial education of professional nurses and mid-
wives
by Fariba Al-Darazi, Sawsan Al-Majali, Nancy Dickenson-Hazard et al.

World Health Organization, Nursing and Midwifery - Human Resources for
Health, 2009
40 pp. 853 kB:

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2009/WHO_HRH_HPN_08.6_eng.pdf
The great variation in the levels of initial education for professional nurses and midwives
around the world can no longer be neglected. Many countries still consider initial educa-
tion programmes at secondary school level to be sufficient, while some countries specify
university-level education as the minimum point of entry to the health professions for
nurses and midwives. This document describes the context and process followed in de-
veloping the global standards, and presents the standards with their respective goals.
***
How to create an attractive and supportive working environment for health

professionals
by Christiane Wiskow, Tit Albreht and Carlo de Pietro

WHO Regional Office for Europe and European Observatory on Health
Systems and Policies, 2010
48 pp. 485 kB:

http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/124416/e94293.pdf
The work environment constitutes an important factor in the recruitment and retention of

health professionals, and the characteristics of the work environment affect the quality of
care both directly and indirectly. Addressing the work environment, therefore, plays a
critical role in ensuring both the supply of a health workforce and the enhancement, ef-
fectiveness and motivation of that workforce.
Health Systems & Research
Analysing Health Systems To Make Them Stronger
by Josefien van Olmen, Bart Criel, Wim Van Damme et al.

Studies in Health Services Organisation & Policy 27, 2010
101 pp. 1.0 MB:

http://www.strengtheninghealthsystems.be/doc/SHSO&P27_HS%20ANALYSIS_FINAL.pdf
The attention for Health Systems (HS) and Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) has re-
emerged in the frontlines of global debate since several years. This document aims to
clarify the authors’ ideas and visions on HS development by presenting a framework for
description and analysis. It outlines a framework that can be used by anybody wishing
to analyze and strengthen HSs and it elaborates a vision for discussion.
***
Health Management Information System for Hospitals

Lessons learned from a Tanzanian experience
by Pauline Kimollo, Miep Lenoir, Mauri Niemi

International Institute for Communication and Development
September 2010
8 pp. 230 kB:

http://www.iicd.org/about/publications/health-management-information-system-for-
hospitals/at_multi_download/files?name=Health%20Management%20Information%20System%20for%20Hospitals.pdf
This brief describes the lessons learned from the IICD supported Tanzania Evangelical
Lutheran Church Tanzania (ELCT) Health Management Information System (HMIS) pro-
ject. It is intended for actors in the health area as well as for institutions implementing a
similar project that would like to learn from this experience.
Information & Communication Technology
Connecting medical specialists in rural hospitals

Lessons learned from the telemedicine project in Tanzania
by Pauline Kimollo, Mauri Niemi, Miep Lenoir

International Institute for Communication and Development
September 2010
8 pp. 244 kB:

http://www.iicd.org/about/publications/connecting-medical-specialists-in-rural-hospitals-
tanzania/at_multi_download/files?name=Connecting%20medical%20specialists%20in%20rural%20hospitals.pdf
This brief describes the lessons learned from the IICD and Cordaid supported Tanzania
Evangelical Lutheran Church Tanzania (ELCT) telemedicine project. It is intended for

actors in the health area as well as for institutions implementing a similar project that
would like to learn from this experience.
***
Telehealth in the Developing World
Edited by Richard Wootton, Nivritti G. Patil, Richard E. Scott, Kendall Ho

Royal Society of Medicine Press/IDRC, 324 pp., February 2009
Available online at: http://www.idrc.ca/openebooks/396-6/
This book aims to redress the relative lack of published information on

successful telehealth solutions in the developing world. It presents real-
life stories from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It is rich in practical ex-
perience and will be of interest to health professionals, development workers, and e-
health and telehealth proponents interested in learning about, or contributing to the im-
plementation of, appropriate solutions for 80% of the world’s population.
Education
Minimum Standards for Education : Preparedness, Response, Recovery

2nd edition
Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), 2010
139 pp. 1.7 MB:

http://www.crin.org/docs/Minimum_Standards_English_2010.pdf
The aim of the handbook is 1) to enhance the quality of educational pre-

paredness, response and recovery; 2) to increase access to safe and relevant learning
opportunities for all learners, regardless of their age, gender or abilities; and 3) to en-
sure accountability and strong coordination in the provision of education in emergencies
through to recovery.
***
Guidebook for planning education in emergencies and reconstruction

Revised edition - 2010
UNESCO / International Institute for Educational Planning, 2010
8.9 MB:
http://www.iiep.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Cap_Dev_Techn
ical_Assistance/pdf/Guidebook/Guideboook.pdf
The Guidebook aims to support educational authorities in providing equal access to

quality education for children affected by conflict or disaster – which can also provide a
unique opportunity to reform an education system. Intended primarily for ministry of
education staff, it will also serve educational planners and practitioners at all levels,
NGOs and donor agencies. Each chapter identifies strategies or policy options that have
already proven successful in different contexts.
***

SAIDE Multimedia Teacher Education Series
South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE), 2010
http://www.oerafrica.org/teachered/TeacherEducationHome/TeacherEduc
ationThemes/EducationStudies/tabid/988/Default.aspx
The seven module Saide Teacher Education Series is now available on Saide's OER
Africa website. This comprehensive multi-media series aims to develop teachers’ abili-
ties to use theory in practice; and to understand, intervene in and improve their practice
as teachers.
***
How successful are HIV-AIDS prevention education programmes?
by Stéphanie Dolata
Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ)
Policy Issues Series, Number 3, September 2010
3 pp. 225 kB:

http://www.sacmeq.org/downloads/policy/003-SACMEQPolicyIssuesSeries-
HIV_AIDSknowledgetests.pdf
The time has come to launch a comprehensive review and evaluation of all aspects of
the delivery of HIV-AIDS prevention education programmes in African schools. The goal
for such programmes must be to ensure that all children leave primary school with the
basic knowledge that is required to guide their decisions about health protection and
promotion behaviours related to HIV-AIDS.
***
Education for children with disabilities - improving access and quality
by Jacqui Mattingly, Laura McInerney, Ian Attfield et al.

Department for International Development (DFID), 2010
22 pp. 2.0 MB:

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/Documents/publications1/edu-chi-disabil-
guid-note.pdf
This Guidance Note provides information on how to improve educational access and
quality for children with disabilities. It gives an overview of the global context, provides
best practice case studies and clearly signposts practical tools and resources.
***
The Economic Impact of School Violence: A Report for Plan International
by P. Pereznieto, C. Harper ,B. Clench & J. Coarasa

Overseas Development Institute (ODI), June 2010
101 pp. 1.2 MB:

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900sid/MUMA-
8AL92X/$file/ODI_June2010.pdf?openelement

This project’s core research questions will seek to ascertain the extent to which school
violence affects both human and social capital; to what extent school violence jeopard-
izes the future of school children; what impact school violence has upon a country’s long
term development and economic growth; and finally the authors will seek to estimate the
cost of preventing school violence, with the data available.
***
Prevention pays: the economic benefits of ending violence in schools
by Ellery, F., Kassam, N. and Bazan, C.

Plan International, Inc., 2010
20 pp. 1.3 MB:

http://www.crin.org/docs/Prevention_Pays.pdf
The enormous economic and social cost of violence in schools across the world has
been revealed for the first time in this new report. Based on research commissioned by
Plan, the report found that the total cost of school violence in terms of social benefits
lost in just 13 countries where information is available ran to almost US$ 60 billion.
Harm Reduction and Drug Use
Synthetics Monitoring: Analyses, Reporting and Trends (SMART) Update
United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, (UNODC),
October 2010
20 pp. 3.9 MB:

http://www.unodc.org/documents/scientific/GSU4_FINAL_Web.pdf
UNODC Global Synthetics Monitoring: Analyses, Reporting and Trends

(SMART) programme enhances the capacity of Member States in priority regions to
generate, manage, analyse, report and use synthetic drug information to design effec-
tive policy and programme interventions. Global SMART was launched in September
2008 in Bangkok and provides capacity building in 11 countries in East and South-East
Asia. The Global SMART Update (GSU) is designed to provide regular brief reporting on
emerging patterns and trends of the fast changing global synthetic drug situation.
Millennium Development Goals
The New Bottom Billion and the MDGs – A Plan of Action
by Andy Sumner, James Georgalakis, Claire Melamed

Institute of Development Studies (IDS), October 2010
2 pp. 937 kB:

http://www.ids.ac.uk/download.cfm?objectid=CA22426A-E255-
BA1B-AB5F0BB31154EBF7
Popular understandings of global poverty are based on the false premise that poor peo-
ple all live in poor countries. In fact, new estimates place three-quarters of the world’s
1.3bn or so poor people in middle-income countries (MICs) such as India, China, Nige-

ria, Pakistan and Indonesia, and only a quarter live in low-income countries (LICs),
largely in Africa. This is a dramatic change from just two decades ago when 93 per cent
of poor people lived in low-income countries. This change has major implications for
both the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and global strate-
gies for poverty reduction beyond 2015.
***
Disaster proofing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Enhancing Resilience and Accelerating Achievement of MDGs and HFA

Implementation in Asia and the Pacific Region by 2015
Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Management (RCC), Octo-

ber 2010
12 pp. 2.0 MB:

http://www.preventionweb.net/files/16098_16098brochuredisasterproofingmdg1.pdf
This brochure clearly shows how disaster can set back each of the Millennium Devel-
opment Goals (MDGs) and how disaster risk reduction can help achieve the Goals.
Through disaster proof MDGs, it aims to create the “virtuous circle” by reinforcing mutual
synergy between the MDGs and the “Hyogo Framework for Action” (HFA) which is now
in its mid-way through 2015.
Development Assistance
Health and Development: Global Update
HLSP Institute, October 2010
12 pp. 195 kB:

http://www.hlsp.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=k1x7K9wfrlw%3d&tabid=1547
The HLSP Institute’s global update is a reference guide to the key events
and activities of the last six months in the health and development arena, with particular
focus on aid effectiveness, health systems and public health. To join the Institute mailing
list and receive this update regularly, as well as alerts about new publications, e-mail
Claudia Sambo: claudia.sambo@hlsp.org
***
Commitment to Development Index (CDI) 2010
by David Roodman and Julie Walz

Center for Global Development, 2010
6 pp. 227 kB:

http://www.cgdev.org/files/1424561_file_CDI_2010_FINAL_Web.pdf
Which rich countries are doing the most to help poor ones? Rich and poor nations are
linked in many ways - by foreign aid, commerce, the environment, and more. Each year,
the CDI rates rich-country governments on how much they are helping poor countries
via seven key linkages: aid, trade, investment, migration, environment, security, and
technology. The CDI then takes the average for an overall score. For more information,
visit the CDI homepage and Inside the Index.

Countdown to 2015: assessment of official development assistance to ma-
ternal, newborn, and child health, 2003-08
by Catherine Pitt, Giulia Greco, Timothy Powell-Jackson, Anne Mills

The Lancet, Vol. 376, Issue 9751, pp. 1485-1496, 30 October 2010
12 pp. 267 kB:

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS01406736
10613025.pdf?id=3d35b1b5aa0ec416:4acc427a:12bf764ee14:-
50001288347507596
Many of the 68 priority countries in the Countdown to 2015 Initiative are dependent on
official development assistance (ODA). The authors analysed aid flows for maternal,
newborn, and child health for 2007 and 2008 and updated previous estimates for 2003-
06. The increases in ODA to maternal, newborn, and child health during 2003-08 are to
be welcomed, as is the somewhat improved targeting of ODA to countries with greater
needs. Nonetheless, these increases do not reflect increased prioritisation relative to
other health areas.
***
Aid Effectiveness: Why does it matter to partners in South-South coopera-

tion?
by Angel Gurría
Development Outreach - World Bank Institute, October 2010
3 pp. 1.0 MB:

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/WBI/Resources/213798-
1286217829056/gurria.pdf
Why should partners in South-South cooperation care about aid effectiveness? What is
the relevance of the commitments embodied in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effective-
ness (2005) and the Accra Agenda for Action (2008) to development actors? The road
to development is no longer a one-way street; and top down development assistance
isn’t the "only game in town." Ideas as well as financial flows are travelling across bor-
ders from South to South, and even South to North. In a multipolar world development
has become multidirectional.
***
Quality of Official Development Assistance Assessment
by Nancy Birdsall, Homi Kharas, Ayah Mahgoub et al.

Center for Global Development, October 2010
144 pp. 3.3 MB:

http://www.cgdev.org/files/1424481_file_CGDQuODAprepub_final3.pdf
QuODA is an assessment of the Quality of Official Development Assistance (ODA) pro-

vided by 23 donor countries and more than 150 aid agencies. Aid quality is assessed
using 30 indicators grouped in four dimensions that reflect the international consensus
of what constitutes high-quality aid:
 Maximizing Efficiency
 Fostering Institutions
 Reducing Burden
 Transparency and Learning

Rankings can be viewed in separate indices and in the Quality of Aid Diamond, which
makes it possible to quickly compare countries and agencies across all four dimensions.
***
Publish What You Fund: Aid Transparency Assessment 2010
by Erin Coppin, Andrea Pattison, Gabriele Restelli et al.

Publish What You Fund, October 2010
76 pp. 3.1 MB:

http://www.publishwhatyoufund.org/files/Aid-Transparency-Assessment.pdf
This is the first “Publish What You Fund” assessment of donor behaviour on aid trans-
parency. It is the most methodical and complete analysis of donor aid transparency to
date and allows us for the first time to reflect more systematically on donors’ commit-
ment to aid transparency in policy and practice, with an emphasis on transparency to
recipient governments and civil society.
***
How Can Donors Create Incentives for Results and Flexibility for Fragile
States?
by Alan Gelb
Center for Global Development Working Paper 227, October 2010
25 pp. 670 kB:

http://www.cgdev.org/files/1424541_file_Gelb_IDA_flexibility_FINAL.pdf
International Development Association (IDA) donors and others operating a country per-
formance-based allocation system face two difficult problems: how to strengthen incen-
tives to produce and document development results and how to increase flexibility for
fragile states. Fragile states have the greatest need for projects, but their projects tend
to rate poorly in performance-based allocations systems, which provide little incentive to
produce successful projects in fragile states or other countries. This paper offers a pro-
posal to address these issues.
***
Brazil: an emerging aid player

Lessons on emerging donors, and South-South and trilateral cooperation
by Lídia Cabral and Julia Weinstock

Overseas Development Institute Briefing Paper, October 2010
4 pp. 308 kB:

Ahead of Brazil’s presidential election, this paper reviews the institutional set up of Bra-
zil’s aid programme and the implications of its rise in the aid scene on debates around
emerging donors and development cooperation.
***
Good Practice Guide to Public Engagement in Development Schemes
Planning Aid England - Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), June 2010

24 pp. 2.9 MB:
http://www.apho.org.uk/resource/view.aspx?RID=92953
For developers, communities and decision makers, one of the biggest

challenges in taking forward a development scheme is to ensure that pub-
lic engagement is undertaken in a way which is meaningful, inclusive and
brings benefits for all involved. This guide is intended to provide practical advice for all
those involved in public engagement in development schemes which require planning
consent. It is illustrated by real examples of good practice and provides information and
assistance to those planning, engaging in, or assessing community consultation.
***
Where Have All the Donors Gone? Scarce Donor Funding for Non-
Communicable Diseases
by Rachel A. Nugent and Andrea B. Feigl

Center for Global Development Working Paper 228, November 2010
45 pp. 1.3 MB:

http://www.cgdev.org/files/1424546_file_Nugent_Feigl_NCD_FINAL.pdf
Once rich-world woes, non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer ac-
count for half the burden of disease in the developing world. Yet the authors finds that
barely 3 percent of aid and philanthropic spending on health addresses this neglected
health crisis.
Others
Corruption Perceptions Index 2010
Transparency International (TI), October 2010
20 pp. 3.1 MB:

http://www.transparency.org/content/download/55725/890310
With governments committing huge sums to tackle the world’s most press-
ing problems, from the instability of financial markets to climate change and poverty,
corruption remains an obstacle to achieving much needed progress. The 2010 Corrup-
tion Perceptions Index shows that nearly three quarters of the 178 countries in the index
score below five, on a scale from 10 (highly clean) to 0 (highly corrupt). These results
indicate a serious corruption problem.
***
The Open Budget Survey 2010
by Vivek Ramkumar, Isaac Shapiro, Delaine McCullough et al.

The International Budget Partnership, 2010
68 pp. 4.2 MB:

http://internationalbudget.org/files/2010_Full_Report-English.pdf

The Open Budget Survey 2010 is the only independent, comparative, regular measure
of budget transparency and accountability around the world. Produced every two years
by independent experts not beholden to national governments, the report reveals that
74 of the 94 countries assessed fail to meet basic standards of transparency and ac-
countability with national budgets. This opens the door to abuse and inappropriate and
inefficient use of public money.
***
Faith-Based Organizations and Service Delivery: Some Gender Conun-

drums
by Mariz Tadros
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), October 2010
36 pp. 358 kB:

http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpAuxPages)/592137C50475F6A8
C12577BD004FB5A0/$file/Tadros.pdf
This paper deals specifically with faith-based organizations (FBOs) delivering services
with the aim of contributing to the debates on religious organizations’ engagement with
questions of gender. The paper presents no conclusions or generic findings about this
heterogeneous group of actors; instead, by flagging a series of conundrums, it ques-
tions the ways in which FBOs have been framed as positive agents for the advancement
of gender equality.
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
New database on conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs in LAC
http://dds.cepal.org/bdptc/
A new web database on conditional cash transfer programmes in Latin

America and the Caribbean, with detailed information and statistical data
on 40 programmes in 19 countries, has been set up by the Economic
Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) with financial
support from GTZ.
***
Safety Nets Publications Database
www.worldbank.org/safetynets/publications
As part of the ongoing efforts to support research and operations with most recent re-
sources, World Bank has updated their publications database. More than 150 new pub-
lications from public works and school feeding papers as well as safety nets in general
were recently added to the database. The database now contains over 1,900 publica-
tions among discussion papers, reports and books, primer publications, notes and arti-
cles on different aspects of safety nets program design and implementation.
***
Free access to all Routledge / Taylor & Francis Journals
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/OpenPublicHealth/index.asp

Until 30 November 2010 you have complete and free access to all current and back
content of more than 100 Routledge/Taylor & Francis Public Health & Social Care jour-
nals.
***
100 countries with free access to The Cochrane Library's database of

health-related Systematic Reviews
http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/index.html
For people in low- and middle-income countries, access to reliable medical literature is
particularly problematic, not least because of the prohibitive on-line subscription costs
for most peer-reviewed journals. Now over 100 countries (listed here:
http://www.dfid.gov.uk/R4D/PDF/Articles/Free_access_to_Cochrane_Library.pdf) have
one-click, free access to The Cochrane Library, following the decision by John Wiley &
Sons and The Cochrane Collaboration. This new expansion means that now, people in
more than 100 countries in some of the most impoverished parts of the world have free
access to The Cochrane Library through the internet and it allows an additional 500 mil-
lion internet users to enter the Library directly, with no fee, no user-name and no pass-
word.
***
Global Atlas of the Health Workforce
World Health Organization

Last Update: August 2009
http://apps.who.int/globalatlas/DataQuery/default.asp
There is a growing need for high quality information on human resources in health sys-
tems to inform decision making for policies and programmes at the national and interna-
tional levels. The WHO Department of Human Resources for Health has been collecting
and compiling cross-nationally comparable data on health workers in all 193 WHO
Member States. The data available in the Global Atlas of the Health Workforce is the
main outcome of this effort.
***
The Lancet Core Clinical Collection

Essential overviews of globally important diseases
http://mail.elsevier-
alerts.com/go.asp?/bELA001/mABKGX1F/q12K7X1F/uGU1S5/x0LFLY1F/cwindows%2D1252
The Lancet Core Clinical Collection is a comprehensive collection of Semi-

nars and Reviews covering the top 100 diseases of global importance,
clinical significance, and research interest. Ideal for anyone needing an overview of a
topic, whether preparing for exams, teaching, or at the point of care. The Collection is
selected by editors of The Lancet and is relevant to practice anywhere in the world. It is
reviewed and updated regularly. Purchase selected articles or upgrade to a subscription
for access to the entire collection, anytime.
***

Digital Development Debates
http://www.digital-development-debates.org/
InWEnt (Capacity Building International) has launched a

new online magazine. Each issue focuses on a prevailing
topic from the development policy sector. The authors – all
experts from their respective fields – explore different fac-
ets of this central topic in their contributions. Digital Development Debates takes a two-
tiered approach: The magazine offers short journalistic articles aimed at interested lay-
people, and more in-depth technical articles that provide well-founded and detailed in-
formation.
***
Bulletin of the World Health Organization (BLT)

Volume 88, Number 11, November 2010, 797-876
Table of contents: http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/11/en/
IN THIS MONTH'S BULLETIN:

Africa: preventing malaria in infants; Africa: HIV infection among older adults; Bangla-
desh: facing food insecurity; China: responding to viral hepatitis; Kenya: hiring more
nurses; Mongolia: surviving sepsis; New Zealand: tobacco warnings; South Africa:
bridging the gap; Global: cause-of-death data; Global: water science and health; Global:
measuring disability; Global: volunteer spirit or exploitation?; Global: ethics of human
tissue transplantation
***
The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries

Vol. 4, No. 09: September 2010
http://www.jidc.org/index.php/journal
The JIDC publishes original research papers, research notes, guidance documents and
reviews covering different aspects of human, animal and environmental microbiology
and infections in developing countries with particular emphasis on emerging and re-
emerging etiological agents, diagnosis, epidemiology and public health. The aim of the
journal is to provide all infectious disease researchers from developing countries with an
international forum for publishing their research findings.
***
African Journal of Health Professions Education (AJHPE)

Vol. 1, No. 2 (2010)
http://www.ajhpe.org.za/index.php/ajhpe/issue/view/2/showToc
The AJHPE is a bi-annual journal for health professionals. It carries re-

search articles and letters, editorials, education practice, personal opinion
and other topics related to education for health professionals. It also carries related Afri-
can education-related news, obituaries, general correspondence, and classified adver-
tisements. The current issue focuses on educating health professionals to meet Africa's
needs.
***

Interagency Gender Working Group's (IGWG) Gender and Health Toolkit
http://www.k4health.org/toolkits/igwg-gender
The eToolkit is a product of IGWG, K4Health and USAID. It brings together

an enormous wealth of gender resources in one location. The purpose of the eToolkit is
to provide practical, "how-to" methodologies and tools on gender that are designed to
move health practitioners and managers from awareness and commitment to direct ap-
plication and practice in policy and program design, implementation, research, capacity
building and monitoring and evaluation.
***
Condom Use eToolkit
http://www.k4health.org/toolkits/condoms
Condoms (male and female) are the only family planning method that
provides protection not only against pregnancy but also against sexually
transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV. The Condom Use eToolkit,
developed by Family Health International for the K4Health Project, summarizes the lat-
est evidence and provides links to guidelines and tools to help you plan, manage,
evaluate, and support services that encourage condom use.
INTERESTING WEB SITES

The Online Mental Health Community
http://www.mhcommunity.net/
This online community connects people working on mental health issues

in Low and Middle-Income countries. It allows people to share information and experi-
ences and to network with partners and colleagues all over the world. We welcome
mental health workers, international aid workers, NGO activists, students and anybody
who is interested. We especially welcome people from Low and Middle-Income Coun-
tries to join the community and share information about their local projects and needs.
***
Global Polio Eradication Initiative
http://www.polioeradication.org/
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is a public-private part-

nership led by national governments and spearheaded by the
World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the US
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the United Nations Children’s
Fund (UNICEF). Its goal is to eradicate polio worldwide.
***
capacity4dev.eu - Connecting the Development Community
http://capacity4dev.ec.europa.eu

Capacity4dev.eu is a growing online community for development practitioners. This in-
teractive platform was set up by EuropeAid to enhance knowledge through the ex-
change of practices on effective international cooperation. Capacity4dev.eu provides an
open forum for all commission staff, partner countries, other donors, researchers and
civil society representatives to share ideas and expertise.
***
Open Educational Resources
English - http://www.unesco.org/webworld/en/oer
French - http://www.unesco.org/webworld/fr/oer
The UNESCO Communication and Information (CI) Sector ICT in Educa-

tion Section has launched a new Open Educational Resources (OER) page. The page
is a comprehensive, centralized information resource on the CI Sector's OER Pro-
gramme.
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
Knowledge Management for Development
13th - 15th December, 2010

MDF Training & Consultancy, Ede, The Netherlands
Course Content: Concept of knowledge creation and knowledge management, role of

knowledge in development cooperation, developing a knowledge management strategy,
implementing knowledge management processes, role of technology in knowledge
management, human factor in knowledge management, HRM and knowledge manage-
ment, leadership and knowledge management.
Target Audience: Managers, team leaders, human resource professionals, knowledge

managers or consultants that would like to understand the tools for managing knowl-
edge.
Language: English; Fees: EUR 1,320

For more information contact:
Tel.: +31-318-650-060
Fax: +31-318-614-503
mailto:mdf@mdf.nl
or see: http://www.mdf.nl/page/MDF-GENERAL/Course-calendar/knowledge-
management-for-development?mod[MDFCourseCalendarModule][item]=103
For more courses and conferences see also:

http://www.going-international.at/index.php?lang=EN
***
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Poverty Reduction, Repro-

ductive Health and Health Sector Reform
2-6 May, 2011 - Budapest, Hungary
The course will explore key elements in designing efficient, equitable, and financially

sustainable population policies and reproductive health programs in the context of
health sector reform and the Millennium Development Goals.
Formerly 2 weeks in duration, the course has been shortened to make it easier and less
costly to attend. It is designed for staff from governments, donor agencies, international
organizations, the World Bank, and NGOs working in the health sector. In addition, it is
for staff from training and research institutions, as well as academics and researchers
working in the areas of health, public administration, and social sector reform.
For more information see: http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/event/achieving-millennium-
development-goals-poverty-reduction-reproductive-health-and-health-sector
CONFERENCES
13th Annual Scientific Conference of ICDDR,B
15-17 March 2011

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research,
Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh
“Science to Accelerate Universal Health Coverage”
Interested persons are invited to submit abstracts keeping the theme of the conference -
“Science to Accelerate Universal Health Coverage” in mind. This forum provides an op-
portunity to disseminate and share results of research, experience, and lessons learnt
from recent projects and programmes.
For more information see: http://centre.icddrb.org/activity/?typeOfActivity=13ASCON
***
3rd International Conference on Health Financing in Developing and

Emerging Countries
11-13 May, 2011

CERDI, University of Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Health financing cannot be separated from development policies and macroeconomic

and sector reforms, especially as the lack of resources often coexists with great difficul-
ties in terms of absorption capacity. In this context, the need for rigorous evaluations,
not only of pilot projects, which have proliferated in recent years, but also of policies and
financing arrangements, is now widely recognized by all stakeholders. This conference
aims to bring together participants who will discuss work on theoretical, conceptual,
methodological and applied issues related to the multiple aspects of the current ques-
tions of health financing in developing and emerging countries.
For more information, download the “Call for Papers” (5pp. 165 kb):
http://cerdi.org/uploads/sfCmsContent/file/343/call-for-papers.pdf
***
4th Eurasia Congress of Infectious Diseases
1-5 June, 2011

Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina

The upcoming congress will be an excellent opportunity to discuss the latest research
findings in laboratory and clinical diagnosis as well as therapy and prevention of infec-
tious diseases. The programme includes keynote lectures, presented by international
leaders in their field, official symposia and workshops. There will be oral and poster
presentations and the delegates will have the opportunity to share their experiences,
knowledge and latest findings.
For more information see: http://www.eacid.org/eacid2011/
CARTOON
British Telecom
TIPS & TRICKS

Virus Total
Not all antivirus programmes will find every virus. Some anti-
virus programmes will call a virus by a different name, while
other programmes miss a virus threat altogether. The makers of antivirus software do
their best to make sure their product will detect every virus out there, but that is not al-
ways 100 percent possible. While it would be nice to have two antivirus programmes on
your computer, that’s not a good idea either. So, what can you do if you want a second
opinion on a suspicious file?
If you start looking online for another way to check files for viruses you might come
across VirusTotal: http://www.virustotal.com/
Virustotal is a service that analyzes suspicious files and URLs for free and facilitates the
quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware detected by antivirus

engines. VirusTotal allows you to upload a file (maximum size 20 MB) so that they can
check it for viruses. The Web site will not just check it once, but it will actually check it
with 36 different antivirus programmes to ensure it is virus free.
But note: VirusTotal is not a substitute for any antivirus software installed in a PC, since
it only scans individual files on demand. It does not offer permanent protection for users’
systems either. Although the detection rate achieved by the use of multiple antivirus en-
gines is far superior to that offered by just one product, these results DO NOT guarantee
the harmlessness of a file. Currently, there is no solution that offers 100% effectiveness
in detecting viruses and malware.
***
Side by Side in MS PowerPoint
Did you know that you can view multiple presentations at the same time in MS Power-
Point? It is not a bad thing to know when you are trying to compare presentations, or
moving items from one to another.
To accomplish this goal, you need to open all the presentations… obviously, the more
you open, the smaller they will appear on the screen, so be sure that you need every-
thing that you open. With the files open, go to the View tab of the Ribbon and click the
“Arrange All” button.
You should be looking at something like this:
As for what you could do besides com-

pare the presentations… You could
copy/cut and then paste from one pres-
entation to the other. You could also
drag and drop slides from one presen-
tation to another, provided that you
used a right-click when dragging the
slide. This method also give you the
usual Move, Copy, Cancel choices
when you release the right mouse but-
ton.
To get out of the side by side mode, you can simply maximize one of the presentations
and you will be back to your usual view.
Best regards,
Dieter Neuvians MD

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