Public-private partnership
Medicines for Malaria Venture
Link:
http://www.mmv.org
Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) - A nonprofit foundation created to discover, develop and deliver new antimalarial drugs through effective public-private partnerships. Their vision is a world in which affordable drugs will help eliminate the devastating effects of malaria and help protect the children, pregnant women, and vulnerable workers of developing countries
from this terrible disease.
Eldis/HSRC Health Systems Resource Guide
Link:
http://www.eldis.org/healthsystems/
A collaboration between Eldis and the Health Systems Resource Centre providing access to the latest and most relevant knowledge on health systems selected from practitioner and research networks on and off the web. Current topic areas include health, poverty and vulnerability, priority diseases, aid policy and financing mechanisms, global initiatives and PPPs, access to medicines, and health service delivery.
Health department deaf to ideas, say private hospitals
Private hospitals yesterday complained to Parliament that their suggestions to the health department on ways to improve South Africans access to healthcare without resorting to regulation were falling on deaf ears.
Transport Policy for Health Services in the Public Health Sector - Lessons Learned from a Study of the Impact on Health Services of Public-Private Partnership for Transport in the Eastern Cape
Published by:
Health Systems Trust
Adequate and appropriate vehicles are essential for health service delivery. These are required for transport and transfer of patients from community to health facilities and between levels of health care delivery of essential equipment, medicines and other supplies to point of service delivery transport of health workers for supervisory visits, to attend meetings and training sessions and for administrative purposes.
New report from the Global Forum for Health Research
Behind the Global Numbers: the Real Costs of Research for Health
GENEVA, April 2006-The rich and the privileged enjoy much better health and live much longer than their poorer neighbours, especially those discriminated against because of their caste, class, ethnicity, race or religion, asserts Professor Stephen Matlin, Executive Director of the Geneva-based Global Forum for Health Research.
SENIOR RESEARCH OFFICER
HST seeks to employ a senior research officer to be based preferably in Gauteng/Pretoria.
New Options Needed to Prevent the Spread of HIV/AIDS
Todays EU meeting in Dublin on new HIV/AIDS prevention technologies marks a new chapter in the EUs response to HIV one that is premised on a commitment to a truly comprehensive and sustained response.



