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Health, Education, Social Protection

News & Notes 21/2010

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10 October 2010

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Table of Contents:

BOOKS ................................................................................ 4Revolution: From Food Aid to Food Assistance - Innovations in Overcoming Hunger........... 4Social Watch Report 2010: After The Fall - Time For A New Deal .........................................4International Health and Aid Policies - The Need for Alternatives ..........................................4The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health ..................................................5

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS.................................................... 5HIV - AIDS - STI ........................................................................................................... 5

Towards universal access: Scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector ..5Good participatory practice guidelines for biomedical HIV prevention trials........................... 5Wall Chart: Population and HIV/AIDS 2010............................................................................ 6Financing of HIV/AIDS programme scale-up in low-income and middle-income countries,2009-31 ...................................................................................................................................6Valuing and Compensating Caregivers for their Contributions to Community Health andDevelopment in the Context of HIV and AIDS: An Agenda for Action....................................6Early mortality and loss to follow-up in HIV-infected children starting antiretroviral therapy inSouthern Africa........................................................................................................................7Interactions between HIV/AIDS and the Environment ............................................................7Blame and Banishment: The Underground HIV Epidemic Affecting Children in EasternEurope and Central Asia .........................................................................................................7

Sexual & Reproductive Health ..................................................................................... 8A Research Study on Status of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of YoungPeople in Pakistan...................................................................................................................8Report on the 2010 Soccer World Cup and Sex Work: Documenting Successes andFailures.................................................................................................................................... 8Linking Reproductive Health and Gender Programs and Services with Prevention of HIV/STI.................................................................................................................................................8

Maternal & Child Health ............................................................................................... 9Women in Asia-Pacific: Challenges and Priorities Data Sheet...............................................9Targeting Poverty and Gender Inequality to Improve Maternal Health................................... 9A Fair Chance at Life: Why Equity Matters for Child Mortality................................................9Choice of fluids for resuscitation in children with severe infection and shock: systematicreview......................................................................................................................................9Facts for Life - Lessons from Experience..............................................................................10

Malaria........................................................................................................................ 10Origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in gorillas.............................10Comparison of real-time PCR and microscopy for malaria parasite detection in Malawianpregnant women....................................................................................................................10Effectiveness of five artemisinin combination regimens with or without primaquine inuncomplicated falciparum malaria: an open-label randomised trial ......................................11The quest for universal access to effective malaria treatment: how can the AMFmcontribute?.............................................................................................................................11

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Tuberculosis ............................................................................................................... 11Tuberculosis Diagnosis - Time for a Game Change.............................................................11Direct microscopy versus sputum cytology analysis and bleach sedimentation for diagnosisof tuberculosis: a prospective diagnostic study.....................................................................12Decentralised, patient-centred models of delivering treatment and palliative care for peoplewith M/XDR-TB......................................................................................................................12Comparison of two active case-finding strategies for community-based diagnosis ofsymptomatic smear-positive tuberculosis and control of infectious tuberculosis in Harare,Zimbabwe..............................................................................................................................12

Other Infectious Diseases .......................................................................................... 13Reflections on Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 and the International Response .............................13Clinical outcomes of seasonal influenza and pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in pediatricinpatients...............................................................................................................................13Dengue - Guidelines for Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention and Control..............................13

Social Protection ........................................................................................................ 14Climate change and social protection in Cambodia: Linkages and synergies...................... 14High-Powered Incentives in Developing Country Health Insurance: Evidence fromColombias Rgimen Subsidiado.........................................................................................14

Health Systems & Research ...................................................................................... 14Seventy-Five Trials and Eleven Systematic Reviews a Day: How Will We Ever Keep Up? 14

Information & Communication Technology ................................................................ 15Hospital Management Information System: The Aceh Experience ......................................15Web 2.0 and Internet Social Networking: A New tool for Disaster Management? - Lessonsfrom Taiwan...........................................................................................................................15

Education ................................................................................................................... 15ICT Transforming Education: A Regional Guide................................................................... 15

Global Health.............................................................................................................. 16Taxing global public bads......................................................................................................16Reforming health care: why we need to learn from international experience.......................16Innovative Product Development Partnerships: Advancing Global Health and EconomicDevelopment Goals...............................................................................................................16Engaging the Debates: An Update on Innovative Financing Mechanisms for Global Health...............................................................................................................................................17

Millennium Development Goals.................................................................................. 17Financing the Millennium Development Goals for health and beyond: sustaining the 'BigPush'......................................................................................................................................17Disaster Risk Reduction: An Instrument for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals 17

Development Assistance............................................................................................ 18Information: Let countries know what donors are doing .......................................................18Quality of Official Development Assistance Assessment......................................................18Seven Challenges in International Development Assistance for Health and Ways Forward18

Others......................................................................................................................... 19mhGAP Intervention Guide for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in non-specialized health settings ....................................................................................................19Right to Food and Nutrition Watch - 2010.............................................................................19The World Bank Annual Report 2010 ...................................................................................19

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES ............................................ 20Bulletin of the World Health Organization (BLT)...................................................................20Newsletter of the German BACKUP Initiative .......................................................................20The International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine..............................20Vol. 1, No. 4, October 2010...................................................................................................20e-WABALink - Issue 2/2010, September 2010 .....................................................................20Mapping for Results Platform................................................................................................20

INTERESTING WEB SITES .............................................. 21KIT Information Portal: Governance & HIV and AIDS...........................................................21What Works for Women & Girls - Evidence for HIV/AIDS Interventions............................... 21Knowledge Brokers Forum (KBF) ........................................................................................21


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Access to Essential Medicines as Part of the Right to Health ..............................................21TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES............................................ 22

Diploma Course on International Health and Policy Evaluation (IHPE)................................22Health Care and Management in Tropical Countries (HCMTC) ...........................................22

CONFERENCES................................................................ 22Regional Conference on Delivering Social Protection to Unorganized Workers ..................22

CARTOON ......................................................................... 23TIPS & TRICKS ................................................................. 23

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BOOKS

Revolution: From Food Aid to Food Assistance - Innovations in Overcom-ing Hunger

Edited by Steven Were Omamo, Ugo Gentilini and Susanna Sandstrm

United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), September 2010

445 pp. 4.5 MB:http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900sid/ASAZ-

89LGFM/$file/WFP_Sep2010.pdf?openelement

This book documents a compilation of state-of-the-art food assistance innovations byWFP. It lays out both new tools and traditional responses that provide life-saving relief,improve nutrition, enhance human capital and strengthen food markets, while support-ing country-led food security strategies.

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Social Watch Report 2010: After The Fall - Time For A New Deal

by Roberto Bissio, Amir Hamed, Ana Zeballos et al.International Secretariat of Social Watch, 2010

208 pp. 12.2 MB(!):http://www3.socialwatch.org/sites/default/files/Social-Watch-

Report-2010.pdf

The report calls for justice of all kinds, including climate justice, financial, fiscal and eco-nomic justice, and social and gender justice. The report addresses various thematic is-

sues, and looks at international and national progress made on the Millennium Devel-opment Goals (MDGs). It notes with concern that progress on poverty reduction hasslowed down since the MDGs were set and notes that social progress does not auto-matically follows economic growth. It highlights that better (non-monetary) indicators areneeded to more accurately monitor the evolution of poverty in the world.

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International Health and Aid Policies - The Need for Alternatives

by Jean-Pierre Unger, Pierre De Paepe, Kasturi Sen and Werner Soors

Cambridge University Press, 314 pp., October 2010, Price US$ 49.95

Excerpt: Section1, Chapter1 (10 pp. 265 kB):http://assets.cambridge.org/97805211/74268/excerpt/9780521174268_excerpt.pdf

International health and aid policies of the past two decades have had a major impacton the delivery of care in low and middle-income countries. This book argues that thesepolicies have often failed to achieve their main aims, and have in fact contributed to re-stricted access to family medicine and hospital care. Presenting detailed evidence, andillustrated by case studies, this book describes how international health policies to datehave largely resulted in expensive health care for the rich, and disjointed and ineffective

services for the poor.
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The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health

Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Initiative on the Fu-ture of Nursing, at the Institute of MedicineThe National Academies Press, 2010

587 pp. 4.9 MB:http://download.nap.edu/cart/pdfaccess.cgi?&record_id=12956&free=1

The Future of Nursing explores how nurses roles, responsibilities, and education shouldchange significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created byhealth care reform and to advance improvements in Americas increasingly complexhealth system. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an ac-tion-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.

ONLINE PUBLICATIONS

HIV - AIDS - STI

Towards universal access: Scaling up priority HIV/AIDS interventions inthe health sectorProgress report 2010

WHO; UNAIDS; UNICEF- September 2010

150 pp. 3.1 MB:http://www.who.int/entity/hiv/pub/2010progressreport/full_report_en.pdf

This years report on HIV/AIDS interventions in the health sector presents strong evi-dence of progress in the global effort to fight HIV/AIDS, but it also makes clear howmuch work remains to be done. It shows that, among 144 low- and middle-income coun-tries reporting programme data this year, eight had already achieved universal access toantiretroviral therapy at the end of 2009, providing treatment to at least 80% of patientsin need. Furthermore, 15 countries had achieved the 80% target for coverage with anti-retroviral prophylaxis to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV.

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Good participatory practice guidelines for biomedical HIV prevention trialsSecond edition, 2010

Draft for Public CommentJoint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 2010

80 pp. 3.1 MB:http://data.unaids.org/pub/Manual/2010/guidelines_biomedical_hiv

_prevention_2010_en.pdf

Well-conducted biomedical HIV prevention trials are essential to discover additionaltechnologies to reduce new HIV infections worldwide. The good participatory practice(GPP) guidelines were created in 2007 to set global standards in stakeholder engage-ment for biomedical HIV prevention trials. They provide a framework for development ofeffective stakeholder engagement programmes. Consideration of specific trial and local

contexts will dictate how the guidelines are best implemented.
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Wall Chart: Population and HIV/AIDS 2010

United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, PopulationDivision, 2010

2 pp. 2.1 MB:http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/population-

hiv2010/population-hiv2010chart.pdf

The wall chart provides, for all countries for which data are available, information on thenumber of adults and children living with HIV, AIDS deaths, AIDS orphans, the impact ofAIDS on life expectancy and on projected population in 2015, and Government meas-ures taken in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, including blood screening, informa-tion, education and communication (IEC) activities, provision of antiretroviral therapy(ART), antidiscrimination legislation and distribution of condoms. In addition, data oncondom use, number of people receiving ART and percentage of HIV-positive pregnantwomen receiving antiretrovirals to prevent mother mother-to-child transmission areshown.

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Financing of HIV/AIDS programme scale-up in low-income and middle-income countries, 2009-31

by Robert Hecht, John Stover, Lori Bollinger et al.The Lancet, Vol. 376, Issue 9748, pp. 1254-1260, 9 October 2010

7 pp. 138 kB:http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS014067361061255X.pdf?i

d=5bbe37e152166496:-5e0f443d:12b8d1a1bf1:65e91286571523218

More than 4 million people with HIV-1 infection are now receiving life-saving antiretrovi-ral therapy (ART). Globally, the incidence of HIV infection has reduced 30% from a peakin the mid-1990s. In the next few years, sustaining momentum will be difficult in the faceof global economic slowdown, competing issues such as global climate change, and theincreasingly divergent situations of countries with different epidemic burdens and eco-nomic capacities. Rather than deny these differences, we need to accept and embracethem to design customised responses and maintain solidarity and aims in our global ef-forts to end HIV/AIDS.

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Valuing and Compensating Caregivers for their Contributions to Commu-nity Health and Development in the Context of HIV and AIDS: An Agendafor Action

by Shannon HayesHuairou Commission, 2010

29 pp. 11.6 MB(!):http://www.groots.org/Download/HC_compensations-report.pdf

While funding for HIV prevention and treatment has reached billions of international dol-lars, this new study suggests that volunteer care and support makes a huge - andlargely unrecognized - economic contribution to the response. Research in six countries(Cameroon, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda) shows that tens of thou-sands of unpaid female caregivers between the ages of 20 and 49 routinely donate on

average 69 hours per month to care for the sick and vulnerable - a donation of time
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worth millions of dollars each month.* * *

Early mortality and loss to follow-up in HIV-infected children starting anti-retroviral therapy in Southern Africa

by Lukas Fenner, Martin W. G. Brinkhof, Olivia Keiser et al.J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, Vol. 54, Nr. 5, August 15, 2010

9 pp. 375 kB:http://fieldresearch.msf.org/msf/bitstream/10144/112734/1/Fenner_Early%20mort

ality%20and%20ltf%20in%20children%20on%20ART%20in%20SA_JAIDS%202010.pdf

Many HIV-infected children in Southern Africa have been started on antiretroviral ther-apy (ART), but loss to follow up (LTFU) can be substantial. The authors conclude that inchildren starting ART and remaining in care in Southern Africa mortality at 1 year is


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Sexual & Reproductive Health

A Research Study on Status of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rightsof Young People in Pakistan

by John de Wit, Qadeer Baig, Saeed-ur-Rehman et al.World Population Foundation, Pakistan, March 2010

56 pp. 1.1 MB:http://www.wpfpak.org/pdfs/SRHR_Report_2010.pdf

This study was conducted to gain a clear picture of the SRH rights of young people inPakistan. The findings indicate that there is limited realization of young people's SRHrights and that there is extreme discrimination against marginalized communities. Thereport documents the need to sensitize health care providers in both the private andpublic sectors. The findings provide a base on which organizations and governmentagencies can build their advocacy strategies and interventions in education and healthsectors.

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Report on the 2010 Soccer World Cup and Sex Work: Documenting Suc-cesses and Failures

by Eric Harper & Dianne Massawe and Marlise RichterSex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), September 2010

12 pp. 592 kB:http://sex-work-2010-reference-

group.googlegroups.com/web/World%20Cup_report_10%20Sept_final.pdf?gsc=kzQ9HgsAAACTr1i9wDAizh1Yc9Liemcj

The report highlights the affects of the countrys recent hosting of the 2010 soccer WorldCup on sex workers, including the alleged victimisation of sex workers as part of the im-plementation of local tourism and public health campaigns. The document concludes byissuing recommendations that authors say they hope will guide the implementation ofother international supporting events.

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Linking Reproductive Health and Gender Programs and Services with Pre-vention of HIV/STI

by Rafael MaznPan American Health Organization, 2010

70 pp. 9.6 MB(!)http://zunia.org/uploads/media/knowledge/user500181_Linking%20Sex-

ual%20and%20Reproductive%20Health%20REDUCED1285478393.pdf

This document is targeted at health sector decision-makers and managers of sexual andreproductive health (SRH) and HIV/STI programs and services. The document offers astrategic proposal to guide coordination, collaboration, and effective participation thattranscends the mere recognition and mutual endorsement of various programs and ser-vices. Instead of viewing services devoted to sexual health and reproductive health,gender and HIV prevention, and STIs in isolation, the idea is to create synergies among

them.
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Maternal & Child Health

Women in Asia-Pacific: Challenges and Priorities Data Sheet

United Nations ESCAP 2010

1 pp. 159 kB:http://www.unescap.org/sdd/publications/womendatasheet/Da

tasheet_2010.pdf

Since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 1995, there hasbeen progress in some areas towards achieving gender equality in the Asia and Pacificregion. Despite the progress made, however, women in the region continue to face dis-crimination and persistent constraints to achieving gender equality and empowerment.The snapshot of key issues and corresponding indicators presented in this chart high-light both selected challenges and priorities for action by Governments.

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Targeting Poverty and Gender Inequality to Improve Maternal Health

by Silvia Paruzzolo, Rekha Mehra, Aslihan Kes, Charles AshbaughInternational Center for Research on Women (ICRW), October 2010

40 pp. 519 kB:http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900sid/EGUA-

8A2P2J/$file/ICRW-Targeting-Poverty-Gender-Inequality-Oct2010.pdf?openelement

This paper examines the ways in which poverty and gender inequality impact maternalmortality by creating barriers to maternal healthcare access and utilization. It also ana-

lyzes strategies designed to increase utilization to identify best practices.

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A Fair Chance at Life: Why Equity Matters for Child Mortality

by Alison Holder, Maricar Garde, Jessica Espey et al.Save The Children, September 2010

46 pp. 1.4 MB:http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/docs/A_Fair_Chance_at_Life.pdf

The research compares mortality rates of poor children and rich childrenin 32 countries. In many countries that are successfully reducing child mortality, pro-gress is concentrated among the poorest and most disadvantaged children. Conversely,in countries making slow or no progress, disparities in life chances between childrenfrom the poorest and richest backgrounds tend to be extreme. This report identifies fourkey lessons for policy-makers in developing countries, and highlights what the interna-tional community must do to put equity front and centre in efforts to cut child mortality.

Choice of fluids for resuscitation in children with severe infection andshock: systematic review

by Samuel Akech, Hannah Ledermann, Kathryn Maitland
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BMJ 2010; 341:c4416 (2 September 2010)

8 pp. 153 kB:http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c4416.full.pdf+html

The current evidence on choice of fluids for resuscitation in children with infections isweak. While existing trials have provided important evidence in malaria and dengue, re-suscitation in children with paediatric sepsis, for which colloids could theoretically be of

benefit, has not been studied. The evidence from existing studies is not robust enoughto make any definitive recommendations over the choice of resuscitation fluid and a de-finitive trial is required to address this.

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Facts for Life - Lessons from Experience

Third edition published in 2002 by UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO, UNFPA,UNDP, UNAIDS, WFP and the World Bank

75 pp. 1.9 MB:http://www.unicef.org/ceecis/facts_for_life.pdf

The goal of Facts for Life is to reduce childhood illness and death. The publication rec-ommends actions that may require fundamental changes in how people do certainthings. Behaviour is based on deeply held beliefs and cultural values, and changing be-haviour requires confidence and courage. People may resist change because they lackunderstanding, motivation or the means to resolve the problem.

Malaria

Origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in gorillas

by Weimin Liu, Yingying Li, Gerald H. Learn et al.Nature, Volume: 467, pp. 420425 (23 September 2010)

8 pp. 474 kB (download the file from end of article - Link to full article in Nature):http://www.scidev.net/en/news/gorillas-spread-malaria-to-humans-say-

scientists.html

Plasmodium falciparum is the most prevalent and lethal of the malaria parasites infect-ing humans, yet the origin and evolutionary history of this important pathogen remaincontroversial. Gorillas are likely to have been the original source of malaria in humans,and the parasite probably jumped across the species about 5,000 years ago, say the

authors, who will begin screening humans living near gorillas to see if the parasite is stillmoving between the populations today.

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Comparison of real-time PCR and microscopy for malaria parasite detec-tion in Malawian pregnant women

by Anne-Maria Rantala, Steve M Taylor, Paul A Trottman et al.Malaria Journal 2010, 9:269 (6 October 2010)

31 pp. 225 kB:

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Although microscopy remains the most appropriate method for clinical malaria diagnosisin field settings, molecular diagnostics such as real-time PCR offer a more reliablemeans to detect malaria parasites, particularly at low levels. Determination of the possi-ble contribution of these sub-microscopic infections to poor birth outcomes and maternalhealth is critical. For future studies to investigate these effects, this real-time PCR assaytargeting Plasmodium falciparum lactate dehydrogenase (pfldh) gene offers a reliabledetection method.

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Effectiveness of five artemisinin combination regimens with or withoutprimaquine in uncomplicated falciparum malaria: an open-label random-ised trial

by Frank Smithuis, Moe Kyaw Kyaw, Ohn Phe et al.The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Vol. 10, Issue 10, pp. 673-681, October 2010

9 pp. 288 kB:http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/laninf/PIIS1473309910701870.pdf?id

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Artemisinin-combination therapy (ACT) is recommended as first-line treatment of falci-parum malaria throughout the world, and fixed-dose combinations are preferred byWHO; whether a single gametocytocidal dose of primaquine should be added is un-known. The authros aimed to compare effectiveness of four fixed-dose ACTs and aloose tablet combination of artesunate and mefloquine, and assess the addition of asingle gametocytocidal dose of primaquine.

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The quest for universal access to effective malaria treatment: how can theAMFm contribute?

by Lloyd Matowe and Olusoji AdeyiMalaria Journal 2010, 9:274 (8 October 2010)

20 pp. 124 kB:http://www.malariajournal.com/content/pdf/1475-2875-9-274.pdf

Access to quality assured artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) has remainedvery low in most malaria endemic countries. A number of reasons, including unafford-able prices, have contributed to the low accessibility to these life-saving medicines. TheAffordable Medicines Facility-Malaria (AMFm) is a mechanism to increase access toquality assured ACT. The AMFm will try to achieve multiple public health objectives: re-

placing older and increasingly ineffective anti-malarial medicines with ACT, displacingoral artemisinin monotherapies from the market, and prolonging the lifespan of ACT byreducing the likelihood of resistance to artemisinin.

Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis Diagnosis - Time for a Game Change

by Peter M. Small and Madhukar PaiN Engl J Med 2010; 363:1070-1071 (September 9, 2010)
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2 pp. 105 kB:http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMe1008496

The effective treatment of tuberculosis is a lifesaving intervention. The global scale-up oftuberculosis therapy has averted 6 million deaths over the past 15 years, making it oneof the greatest public health interventions of our lifetime. Unfortunately, by the time mostpatients are treated, they have already infected many others. This failure to interrupttransmission fuels the global epidemic so that every year there are more new cases of

tuberculosis than in the previous year. * * *

Direct microscopy versus sputum cytology analysis and bleach sedimenta-tion for diagnosis of tuberculosis: a prospective diagnostic study

by Pamela Hepple, Pascal Nguele, Jane Greig et al.BMC Infectious Diseases 2010, 10:276 (21 September 2010)

7 pp. 202 kB:http://fieldresearch.msf.org/msf/bitstream/10144/112076/1/Hepple%20TB.pdf

Diagnostic options for pulmonary tuberculosis in resource-poor settings are commonlylimited to smear microscopy. The authors investigated whether bleach concentration bysedimentation and sputum cytology analysis (SCA) increased the positivity rate ofsmear microscopy for smear-positive tuberculosis. They conclude that the combinationof bleach sedimentation and SCA resulted in significantly increased microscopy positiv-ity rates and a significant increase in the diagnosis of smear-positive patients.

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Decentralised, patient-centred models of delivering treatment and palliativecare for people with M/XDR-TB

by Theo SmartHIV & AIDS Treatment in Practice (HATIP) - Issue 16608 October 2010

10 pp. 226 kB:http://www.aidsmap.com/pdf/page/1520450/

This HATIP looks at how treatment and palliative care for MDR-TB can be delivered, fo-cusing on the various models of more decentralised patient-centred TB care that are be-ing implemented in Lesotho, KwaZulu Natal and Khayelitsha, South Africa, as well as inNepal and India.

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Comparison of two active case-finding strategies for community-based di-agnosis of symptomatic smear-positive tuberculosis and control of infec-tious tuberculosis in Harare, Zimbabwe

by Elizabeth L Corbett, Tsitsi Bandason, Trinh Duong et al.The Lancet, Vol. 376, Issue 9748, pp. 1244-1253, 9 October 2010

10 pp. 218 kB:http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140673610614250.pdf?i

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Control of tuberculosis in settings with high HIV prevalence is a pressing public healthpriority. The authors tested two active case-finding strategies to target long periods of in-fectiousness before diagnosis, which is typical of HIV-negative tuberculosis and is a keydriver of transmission. They conclude that wide implementation of active case finding,particularly with a mobile van approach, could have rapid effects on tuberculosis trans-mission and disease.

Other Infectious Diseases

Reflections on Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 and the International Response

by Gabriel M. Leung and Angus NicollPLoS Med 7(10): e1000346 (5 October 2010)

6 pp. 115 kB:http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/fetchObjectAttachment.action;jsessionid=BC28519477CFC0A96BB85339C0911F97.ambra01?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000346&representation=PDF

The authors provide their reflections on the international response to the 2009 H1N1 in-

fluenza pandemic, including what went well and what changes need to be made in an-ticipation of future flu pandemics.

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Clinical outcomes of seasonal influenza and pandemic influenza A (H1N1)in pediatric inpatients

by Pranita D Tamma, Alison Turnbull, Aaron M Milstone et al.BMC Pediatrics 2010, 10:72 (6 October 2010)

24 pp. 409 kB:http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2431-10-72.pdf

The study strengthens the growing body of evidence demonstrating that seasonal influ-enza (SI) results in significant morbidity in the pediatric population. Pandemic H1N1 re-ceived considerable attention with strong media messages urging people to be vacci-nated and encouraging improved infection control efforts. The authors believe that thisattention should become an annual effort for SI. Strong unified messages from healthcare providers and the media to receive the influenza vaccine will likely prove very use-ful in averting some of the morbidity of influenza when preparing for influenza epidem-ics.

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Dengue - Guidelines for Diagnosis, Treatment, Prevention and Control

by Michael B. Nathan, Axel Kroeger, John Ehrenberg et al.World Health Organization (WHO) and the Special Programme for Re-search and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), October 2009

160 pp. 1.5 MB:http://apps.who.int/tdr/publications/training-guideline-

publications/dengue-diagnosis-treatment/pdf/dengue-diagnosis.pdf

This new edition has been produced to make widely available to health practitioners,laboratory personnel, those involved in vector control and other public health officials, a

concise source of information of worldwide relevance on dengue. The guidelines pro-
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vide updated practical information on the clinical management and delivery of clinicalservices; vector management and delivery of vector control services; laboratory diagno-sis and diagnostic tests; and surveillance, emergency preparedness and response.

Social Protection

Climate change and social protection in Cambodia: Linkages and syner-

gies

by Mariana StirbuUnited Nations Children's Fund, June 2010

14 pp. 115 kB:http://www.eldis.org/vfile/upload/1/document/1010/Climate%20change%20and%20social%20protection%20draft%20by%20UNICEF%202010.doc

Because of its low adaptive capacity, Cambodia is highly vulnerable to climate changeevents, particularly as the social protection system in Cambodia is still under develop-

ment. This technical note discusses "adaptive social protection" - the concept that re-quires that social protection should consider both short- and long-term shocks andstresses associated with climate change.

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High-Powered Incentives in Developing Country Health Insurance: Evi-dence from Colombias Rgimen Subsidiado

by Grant Miller, Diana Pinto, Marcos Vera-Hernndez, October 2009

57 pp. 863 kB:

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Despite current emphasis on health insurance expansions in developing countries, inef-ficient consumer incentives for over-use of medical care are an important counterbal-ancing concern. However, three factors that are more acute in poor countries (creditconstraints, principal-agent problems, and positive externalities) result in substantial un-der-use and misuse as well. This paper studies Colombias Rgimen Subsidiado, thefirst major developing country effort to expand insurance in a way that purposefully ad-dresses these inefficiencies.

Health Systems & Research

Seventy-Five Trials and Eleven Systematic Reviews a Day: How Will WeEver Keep Up?

by Hilda Bastian, Paul Glasziou, Iain ChalmersPLoS Med 7(9): e1000326 (21 September 2010)

6 pp. 366 kB:http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/fetchObjectAttachment.action;jsessionid=B311BF681F33EF138

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accepted, Archie Cochrane reproached the medical profession for not having managedto organise a critical summary, by speciality or sub-speciality, adapted periodically, ofall relevant randomised controlled trials. Thirty years after Cochranes reproach it istimely to consider the extent to which health professionals, the public and policymakerscould now use critical summaries of trials for their decision-making.

Information & Communication Technology

Hospital Management Information System: The Aceh Experience

by Kelvin Hui and Wolf WagnerDeutsche Gesellschaft fr Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH,2010

28 pp. 1.2 MB:http://zunia.org/uploads/media/knowledge/HMIS_Aceh_finalreport

1285827114.pdf

This document is a technical elaboration of the GTZ Health Services Management Sys-tem Project (HSMS) which was part of German - Aceh Reconstruction and Rehabilita-tion Programme (ARRP). It elaborates the details behind the efforts to facilitate the Pro-vincial Health Department with the implementation of a hospital management informa-tion system (HMIS) in 1 provincial hospital and 4 district hospitals in Aceh - Indonesia. Itrelays detailed information on backgrounds, strategies, outcomes and lessons learned.

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Web 2.0 and Internet Social Networking: A New tool for Disaster Manage-ment? - Lessons from Taiwan

by Cheng-Min Huang, Edward Chan and Adnan A HyderBMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 2010, 10:57 (6 October 2010)

18 pp. 122 kB:http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6947-10-57.pdf

Internet social networking tools and the emerging web 2.0 technologies are providing anew way for web users and health workers in information sharing and knowledge dis-semination. Based on the characters of immediate, two-way and large scale of impact,the internet social networking tools have been utilized as a solution in emergency re-sponse during disasters. This paper highlights the use of internet social networking indisaster emergency response and public health management of disasters by focusing

on a case study of the typhoon Morakot disaster in Taiwan.

Education

ICT Transforming Education: A Regional Guide

by Jonathan AndersonUNESCO Bangkok, Asia & Pacific Regional Bureau for Education, 2010

130 pp. 2.6 MB:

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This guide is written for teachers, teacher educators, heads of schools and ICT coordi-nators in the Asia-Pacific region. It draws upon the best practices and lessons learnt,and aims at equipping its readers with the competencies and resources to use ICT.

Global Health

Taxing global public bads

by Paul Bernd Spahn and Stephany Griffith-JonesThe Broker, Issue 22 October/November 2010

32 pp. 1.1 MB:http://www.thebrokeronline.eu/en/content/download/11200/56663

/file/BRO1001_22_LR.pdf

One of the positive things to come out of the recent financial crisis is that it has rekindledinterest in the idea of introducing a global financial transaction tax. This interest coin-cides with a search for innovative sources of financing to meet development goals andfund global public goods. So why not tax global public bads to fund public goods?

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Reforming health care: why we need to learn from international experience

by Jennifer Dixon and Vidhya AlakesonThe Nuffield Trust, September 2010

7 pp. 280 kB:http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/members/downlo-ad.aspx?f=%2fecomm%2ffiles%2fReforming_health_care_international_experience.pdf&a=skip

This paper provides an overview of system reform, using international examples, andhighlights both how the health systems of countries at varying levels of economic devel-opment can benefit from adopting international good practice and the value of a trulyglobal exchange on health system reform. It serves as a discussion document for an in-ternational summit analysing promising health reforms, hosted in partnership with Salz-burg Global Seminar and the British Medical Journal, to be held in Salzburg, Austria on7 to 12 November 2010.

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Innovative Product Development Partnerships: Advancing Global Healthand Economic Development Goals

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) Policy Brief 26, September 2010

4 pp. 3.8 MB:http://www.iavi.org/Lists/IAVIPublications/attachments/eb7b4247-6816-4094-9f54-

9f2f2b99e95a/IAVI_Innovative_Product_Development_Partnerships_2010_ENG.pdf

Product Development Partnerships (PDPs) are non-profit organizations with mandatesto research, develop and support accessibility of new health technologies that targetdiseases disproportionately affecting developing countries. PDPs advance global healthgoals by accelerating the development of products that may not otherwise be devel-oped.

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Engaging the Debates: An Update on Innovative Financing Mechanisms forGlobal Health

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) Policy Notes, September 2010

2 pp. 778 kB:http://www.iavi.org/Lists/IAVIPublications/attachments/af3aaa24-8b53-43e0-b7b1-

3ce527d32236/IAVI_Engaging_the_%20Debates_An_Update_on_Innovative_Financing_Mecha

nisms_for_Global_Health_2010_ENG.pdf

This paper examines financing innovations that could play a major role in sustaining andincreasing funding for Research & Development of essential new biomedical productsfor the developing world, including an Advance Market Commitment, financial transac-tion taxes, and the MASSIVEGOOD programme.

Millennium Development Goals

Financing the Millennium Development Goals for health and beyond: sus-taining the 'Big Push'

by Gorik Ooms, David Stuckler, Sanjay Basu and Martin McKeeGlobalization and Health 2010, 6:17 (8 October 2010)

19 pp. 145 kB:http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/pdf/1744-8603-6-17.pdf

Many of the Millennium Development Goals are not being achieved in the world's poor-est countries, yet only five years remain until the target date. The financing of theseGoals is not merely insufficient; current evidence indicates that the temporary nature ofthe financing, as well as challenges to coordinating its delivery and directing it to the

most needy recipients, hinder achievement of the Goals in countries that may benefitmost. A global social health protection fund is proposed to address recurring failures inthe modern aid distribution mechanism.

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Disaster Risk Reduction: An Instrument for Achieving the Millennium De-velopment Goals

by Feng Min Kan, Ana Cristina Angulo-Thorlund, Serguei Tchelnokov et al.Inter-Parliamentary Union, September 2010

48 pp. 514 kB:http://www.preventionweb.net/files/15711_ipu.pdf

This publication aims to assist members of parliament to oversee national progress andinvestments made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals in their coun-try, using disaster risk reduction. Goal by goal, it outlines priorities, steps and interven-tions needed to reduce or eliminate disaster risks. It shows how disasters can derailprogress made towards the MDGs and development, and why disaster risk reduction isso important to maintaining development gains.
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Development Assistance

Information: Let countries know what donors are doing

by Oxfam America, 2010

24 pp. 584 kB:http://www.oxfamamerica.org/files/information-let-countries-

know-what-donors-are-doing.pdf

Oxfam America has been recommending reforms to US foreign aid practices to make itmore responsive to and supportive of countries own development priorities. A first stepin this direction is improving the information the US provides recipient countries on itsforeign aid. In particular, Oxfam is calling for the US to provide countries with informa-tion that is more transparent and predictable. Oxfam interviewed 200 representativesfrom governments, civil society organizations, and US aid agencies, contractors, andnongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that implement aid programs in Afghanistan,Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, and Rwanda.

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Quality of Official Development Assistance Assessment

by Nancy Birdsall and Homi KharasCenter for Global Development and the Brookings Institution's Global Economy and De-velopment Program, October 2010

144 pp. 3.3 MB:http://www.cgdev.org/files/1424481_file_CGDQuODAprepub_final3.pdf

Which donors give aid well and which need to improve? These (and many more spe-

cific) questions are addressed in this new report. The report is designed to be updatedand published annually. For data nerds there is plenty to get excited about. For startersthey use information from the AidData database in order to construct many of their aidquality indicators.

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Seven Challenges in International Development Assistance for Health andWays Forward

by Devi SridharJournal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Vol. 38 Issue 3, Fall 2010

11 pp. 172 kB:http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/wp-content/uploads/Sridhar-Seven-

Challenges-in-International-Development-Assistance-for-Health.pdf

This paper outlines seven challenges in development assistance for health, which in thecurrent financial context have become even more important to address. It then providesfour suggestions for ways forward: creating new mechanisms to hold donors to account, developing national plans, strengthening national leadership in health, and South-South collaboration.
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Others

mhGAP Intervention Guide for mental, neurological and substance usedisorders in non-specialized health settings

Editors: Tarun Dua, Nicolas Clark, Edwige Faydi et al.World Health Organization, 2010

107 pp. 2.8 MB:http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2010/9789241548069_eng.pdf

The guide presents integrated management of priority conditions using protocols forclinical decision-making. The priority conditions included are: depression, psychosis, bi-polar disorders, epilepsy, developmental and behavioural disorders in children and ado-lescents, dementia, alcohol use disorders, drug use disorders, self-harm/suicide andother significant emotional or medically unexplained complaints. It is a model guide andhas been developed for use by health-care providers working in non-specialized health-care settings after adaptation for national and local needs.

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Right to Food and Nutrition Watch - 2010

Published by Brot fr die Welt (Bread for the world), Interchurch Or-ganisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO), FIAN International,October 2010

90 pp. 921 kB:http://www.rtfn-watch.org/fileadmin/media/rtfn-

watch.org/ENGLISH/pdf/Watch_2010/watch_engl_innen_final_a4.pdf

Published annually, the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch is a powerful tool to put pres-sure on policymakers at the national and international level to take the human right tofood and nutrition into account. The Right to Food and Nutrition Watch provides a plat-form for human rights experts, civil society activists, social movements, the media, andscholars to exchange experiences on how best to carry out right to food and nutritionwork, including lobbying and advocacy.

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The World Bank Annual Report 2010

The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, October2010

37 pp. 5.3 MB:http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900sid/EGUA-

8A2T6L/$file/WorldBank-AnnualReport2010.pdf?openelement

This Annual Report, which covers the period from July 1, 2009, to June 30, 2010 to-gether with the new Web site (www.worldbank.org/annualreport/2010) capture todaysstark realities, our innovative reforms, and financial and field results. They illustrate thecourse, charting to create a New World Bank for a New World.
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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

Bulletin of the World Health Organization (BLT)Volume 88, Number 10, October 2010, 717-796

http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/10/en/index.html

In this Months Bulletin:In editorials, John Wilmoth et al. discuss reasons for a one-third decrease in maternaldeaths worldwide; Lawrence O Gostin et al. introduce an initiative for better globalhealth governance; and Rdiger Krech et al. emphasize the importance of workingacross all government sectors to improve health systems.

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Newsletter of the German BACKUP InitiativeIssue no. 12 September 2010

4 pp. 66 kB:

http://www.gtz.de/de/dokumente/gtz201009-en-backup-news.pdf

The German BACKUP Initiative is a sector programme funded by the German FederalMinistry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). Since 2002, BACKUP hashelped partner countries worldwide to take greater advantage of funding opportunitiesprovided by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The BACKUPNewsletter offers you regular updates on our work with national and international part-ners. Your feedback, questions and contributions are most welcome!

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The International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Vol. 1, No. 4, October 2010

http://www.theijoem.com/ijoem/index.php/ijoem

The fourth (October) issue of The IJOEM is now freely available at the above URL.

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e-WABALink - Issue 2/2010, September 2010

World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA)

9 pp. 761 kB:http://www.waba.org.my/resources/wabalink/pdf/ewaba_link_0910.pdf

e-WABALink is a current awareness service of the World Alliance forBreastfeeding Action (WABA) with the mission of sharing news and useful key docu-ments with its global network of supporters.

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Mapping for Results Platform

http://maps.worldbank.org/
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The World Bank unveiled an interactive mapping tool that allows users to view the loca-tions within a country where World Bank project dollars are spent, view expenditures bysector, and overlay these projects with sub-national data on poverty, population, infantmortality, etc. The three countries that are currently mappable in this beta version areKenya, Bolivia, and the Philippines.

INTERESTING WEB SITES

KIT Information Portal: Governance & HIV and AIDS

http://portals.kit.nl/Governance_HIV_AIDS

This portal provides access to free, full-text electronic publications and other Internetsources on the mechanisms of interaction through which HIV and AIDS policies andstrategies are developed, implemented, monitored and evaluated at different levels in-volving both public and private parties. It is aimed at researchers, policymakers andpractitioners who are involved in HIV and AIDS responses and interventions.

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What Works for Women & Girls - Evidence for HIV/AIDS Interventions

http://www.whatworksforwomen.org/

This comprehensive, centralized review of effective HIVprogramming for women and girls, based on data frommore than 2,000 scientific articles and reports in close to100 countries, provides a searchable database of 455 studies for policymakers, donors,and program planners.

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Knowledge Brokers Forum (KBF)

http://www.knowledgebrokersforum.org/

The Knowledge Brokers Forum (KBF) is a collaborative space to promote knowledgesharing and dissemination around intermediary work in international development. If youare someone who is interested in knowledge translation and how research evidence caninfluence decision making, you might be interested in joining the Knowledge BrokersForum at the above web address.

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Access to Essential Medicines as Part of the Right to Health

http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/human_rights/en/index.html

The website presents links to the most relevant global texts and WHOarticles and documents in this area. It also presents, for the first time,raw data from WHO-sponsored research, such as the full referencesand summary data of the 71 court cases from the Lancet article, and

the database of right to health articles in 189 constitutions of the world.

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TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

Diploma Course on International Health and Policy Evaluation (IHPE)

March 9 - May 27, 2011Erasmus University Rotterdam

The Diploma Course consists of 10 one-week modules and runs from March 9 to May27, 2011. Teaching will take place in the Hague and Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Stu-dent housing can be arranged in the Hague.

Improvements in population health and health equity in low- and middle-income coun-tries require the evaluation of interventions and policies and an evidence based designof reforms. The programme is designed to equip professionals and researchers with es-sential training to support rational decision-making and sustainable improvements inpopulation health.

The deadline for application is December 1st, 2010For more information see: http://www.bmg.eur.nl/english/internationalhealthcourse/

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Health Care and Management in Tropical Countries (HCMTC)

28 March-24 June, 2011 at Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (TPH), Basel/Switzerland

The course aims at introducing a range of skills and knowledge needed to work as pub-lic health professionals in resource poor settings taking into consideration the national,international and global policies and strategies. The course is accredited by the Univer-sity Basel and within the European Network for Education as core module for the Master

in International Health.

Contents: Social science concepts and methods, epidemiology, statistic, reproductiveand child health, tropical medicine, laboratory practice, intercultural communication,management strategies.

Course fee: CHF 6,500.-

For information and application forms:Swiss TPH - Tel. +41-61-284-8234Course Secretariat - Fax +41-61-284-8106P.O. Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland

Email: [email protected]

CONFERENCES

Regional Conference on Delivering Social Protection to UnorganizedWorkersIn the framework of an inter-country Dialogue on Social Policy inKarnataka: Department of Labour, Government of Karnataka

18 to 20 November, 2010 - Bangalore, IndiaJointly supported by Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) and
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InWEnt Capacity Building International, Germany

This conference aims to be a platform for information exchange on demand generationcum service delivery mechanisms of social protection which are successful in enhancingeffective demand, in setting standards for quality social protection services, in reducingthe barriers to access existing social protection programmes, and thus contributing to asustainable social protection system.

For the conference announcement see:http://german-practice-collection.org/en/download-centre/doc_download/859

For the preliminary programme see:http://german-practice-collection.org/en/download-centre/doc_download/860

May we kindly ask you to send the registration form via fax or via e-mail before October4th, 2010 to: [email protected] + 49-30-236-246-04

CARTOON

TIPS & TRICKS

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Web-based is email that is viewed on the web (hence, the name).So, if you are using Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL or any numberof other web-based email providers, you can access it from any

location, provided you can just remember your password.

ents.

Client-Based email is loaded directly on your computer by yourclient. This is done using installed software that, when opened,automatically downloads all your email, which you can then view

at your leisure. Outlook, Thunderbird, and Windows Live Mail are just a few examples ofemail cli
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If you use a combination, i.e. Gmail and Outlook together, you can check your Gmailaccount from any location, but when you open Outlook at home, this same mail is di-rected into your computer. One of the advantages of client-based email is that, if you arenot connected to the internet, you can still pull up an old email. It is already there.

Using client-based email, if you are in a public place that provides internet access, youdon't need to log in to your Outlook account. This way, you can check your email withoutworrying that someone might be watching as you type in a password.

Another advantage of client-based email is that it is easier to direct multiple email ac-counts to a single location. For example, if you use different email accounts for differentreasons (a home account, a work account, etc), it is relatively easy to direct all of themto your client-based email.

Best regards,

Dieter Neuvians MD
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