This final note is a culmination of the information gained from the research conducted on aspects such as supply constraints, changes in demand and utilisation, issues of rationing, burden of disease, etc. In this note we calculate the overall cost of implementing a plan with the essential features of the current NHI proposal.
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A Meeting to inform Council for Foreign Relations January 2010.
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The first Millennium Development Goal calls for the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, and its achievement is crucial for national progress and development. Failing to achieve this goal jeopardizes the achievement of other MDGs, including goals to achieve universal primary education (MDG 2), reduce child mortality (MDG 4) and improve maternal health (MDG 5).
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In its fourth year of publication, this report highlights the deficiencies in tuberculosis (TB) research and the critical need for increased funding. The year-on-year data collection continues to create an evidence base with which to analyze the resources available, as well as the gaps in funding needed to meet the Stop TB Partnership and Millennium Development Goals to reduce TB incidence and death by 50% by 2015 relative to 1990 levels and to eliminate TB as a global public health threat by 2050.
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This report is the 13th annual report on global control of tuberculosis (TB) published by the World Health Organization (WHO) in a series that started in 1997. Its main purpose is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB epidemic and to report on progress in controlling the disease at global, regional and country levels, in the context of global targets set for 2015.
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The global economic crisis has forced governments, civil society and even individuals to re-examine their investments and find innovative and often bold measures to ameliorate the situation.
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Male circumcision is one of the oldest and most common surgical procedures worldwide, and is undertaken for many reasons: religious, cultural, social and medical. There is conclusive evidence from observational data and three randomized controlled trials that circumcised men have a significantly lower risk of becoming infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Demand for safe, affordable male circumcision is expected to increase rapidly, and country-level decision-makers need information about the sociocultural and medical determinants of circumcision, as well as risks of the procedure, in the context of comprehensive HIV prevention programming.
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South Africa has almost two decades (1990–2008) of good sentinel surveillance data that assists in monitoring the HIV epidemic trends in the 15–49 years old female population. At the end of 2007, the estimated prevalence of HIV in the general adult population was 17.5 %. The Government has responded to the HIV and AIDS epidemic by facilitating a multi-sectoral approach to implement and monitor appropriate treatment, prevention, care and support interventions. The Ministry of Health has played a leading role in these efforts, including the provision of strategic information for monitoring the magnitude of the HIV and AIDS epidemic.
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This year’s Pipeline report shows, in brief, a lull in anti-HIV drug development, an alarming stasis in hepatitis B treatment research, renewed activity (after a gap of almost 40 years) in TB drug development, agonizing slow and incremental progress in TB diagnostics research, very preliminary human studies of several new TB vaccine candidates, a back-to-basics mood in the HIV vaccine research community, renewed hopes for efficacy in microbicide and pre-exposure prophylaxis, and no dramatic developments in the areas of immune-based therapies or therapeutic vaccines for HIV.
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