Published in Asiaweek
This paper comments on two documents prepared by the Washington-based World Bank: the "World Development Report" and the three-volume study "Voices of the Poor." The author provides a brief overview of these documents then examines their potential impact on the delegates to the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund i...
Published in AIDS weekly
The Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Foundation (FXB), New York, New York, will develop community-based programs in rural Rajasthan, India, to stem the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), with the support of a US$300,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. According to the WHO and Joint UN Programme for HIV/AIDS,...
Published in AIDS weekly
This article reports on the plans of President Clinton to sign a bill establishing a trust fund care for African AIDS victims. Clinton planned to use his weekly radio address to announce the signing. The signing will likely take place in Lake Placid, New York. Clinton also planned to direct Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers to begin negotiations ...
Published in Health policy and planning
The Thai health card scheme originated from a pilot study on community financing and primary health care in maternal and child health in 1983. The scheme later changed to one of voluntary health insurance and finally received a matching subsidy from the government. The coverage of the scheme is described by a U-curve, i.e. it started with 5% of the...
Published in Reproductive freedom news / from the Center for Reproductive Law & Policy
According to studies conducted by the Rand Corporation and the District of Columbia-based Center for Development and Population Activities, conservative and liberal Americans alike overwhelmingly support foreign assistance to international family planning programs. In addition, the 1998 poll shows that 92% of Americans believe that couples have the...
Published in Health policy and planning
The provision of a secure and safe blood supply has taken on new importance in sub-Saharan Africa with the onset of the AIDS epidemic. Blood transfusion services capable of providing safe blood are not cheap, however, and there has been some debate on the desirability and sustainability of different financing mechanisms for blood transfusion servic...
Published in AIDS weekly
Maternal Life International (MLI) has been awarded a US$273,000 grant by Bristol-Myers Squibb to implement a parish-nurse program for AIDS prevention and care in 25 communities in Swaziland, Africa. The program was developed by MLI in collaboration with Dr. Cynthia Gustafson and will provide a range of services, including hospice/home-based care fo...
Published in Development bulletin (Australian Development Studies Network)
This paper evaluates the fiscal and monetary policies of South Pacific Island Countries (SPICs) in terms of its efficacy on economic growth. To this effect, the backgrounds on the existing fiscal and monetary policies are discussed with emphasis on their inefficiencies and limitations. In addition, the findings of an empirical study conducted in th...
Published in BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
Heads of state of Africa signed a pledge to reduce the continent's malaria mortality by 50% by 2110 at an international summit of Malaria in Abuja, Nigeria. The primary focus of the malaria control program will be insecticide-treated bednets. The WHO wants a 30-fold increase in the availability of bednets in the next 5 years, as well as immediate a...
Published in Lancet (London, England)
This article discusses the need to increase the financial assistance for vaccine development. A health situation was cited to present the intolerable impact of the shortfall in funding for vaccines. This situation, on the other hand, has awakened the world community to respond by forming organizations and projects that will help eliminate this kind...
