This article presents the results of a dialogue between decision-makers and experts in Latin America and the Caribbean on priority-setting for interventions and studies on Aedes aegypti control. The article is part of a project that included a systematic review of mosquito control strategies and a qualit...
Equity in health and equitable access to
healthcare has been at the core of health policy in India. The
key policy challenge has been how to make that possible?
Various health insurance schemes such as the Rashtriya Swasthya
Bima Yojana and Arogyasri seek to improve poor people’s
access to specialist m...
The lack of effective use of research evidence in policy-making is a major challenge in most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). There is need to package research data into effective policy tools that will help policy-makers to make evidence-informed policy regarding infectious diseases of poverty ...
A rare disease is a disease that occurs infrequently or rarely in the general population. In
order to be considered as rare, each specific disease cannot affect more than a limited
number of people out of the whole population, defined in Chile as 0.18 in 10,000 citizens
(Minister of Health draft of the l...
This dialogue to discuss the policy brief which outlines health policy options using the current research evidence is a fulfillment of one of UNHRO?s responsibilities of supporting evidence-based policy decisions. It was noted that there is an acute shortage of human resources for health in Africa and Ug...
The Director General of the Uganda National Health Research Organisation (UNHRO), Dr Sam Okware welcomed participants and asserted the role of UNHRO not only in coordinating national health research but translating research findings into policy and practice. The REACH policy initiative – SURE project u...
The REACH policy initiative SURE project under UNHRO in collaboration with the College of Health Sciences, Makerere University had produced a policy brief on increasing access to skilled birth attendance which was the focus for discussion in this meeting. The brief describes the problem, highlights three...
A National Dialogue on the Transition and Sustainability of Public Health Nutrition Programs was held on July 27, 2011 in Kampala. This was borne out of a growing concern that many a time decision makers are faced with a dilemma: following a successful period for their programs or projects in terms of se...
The Ministry of Public Health convened a deliberative forum in March 18, 2011 Merina Hotel in Yaounde, on "Improving Governance for Health District Development in Cameroon." Twenty governance actors were in attendance including officials from ministries and specialized agencies, regional and district med...
