Global Public Health
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Fixing Health Systems
Don de Savigny, Graham Reid, Harun Kasale, Conrad Mbuya
Fixing Health Systems (2nd Edition)
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Hygiene Promotion
Indispensable for fieldworkers on projects or programmes aiming to reduce the incidence of water-and sanitation-related diseases, it will also be useful for other relief and development workers, particularly those working in the fields of community development, health, and engineering. The authors d...
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Humanitarian Programmes and HIV and AIDS
This manual will help field staff to mainstream HIV andAIDS in humanitarian emergencies. It assumes someknowledge of humanitarian programming and is intended to build staff skills in addressing the underlying causes of vulnerability to HIV infection and the consequences of HIV and AIDS, particularly...
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Gender and Health
Minke Valk, Sarah Cummings, Henk van Dam
Despite decades of work to address the gender-based causes of ill health, women are still dying needlessly and in large numbers. Will current initiatives to improve women's health succeed in meeting the targets prescribed in the Millennium Development Goals by 2015? Gender and Health: Policy and Pra...
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In the Public Interest
This report shows that building public services in developing countries is at the heart of making poverty history. Doing this could transform the lives of millions of people - and, with political leadership, is well within the grasp of our generation.Governments must take responsibility for providi...
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Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in Development and Humanitarian Programmes
AIDS has radically changed the contexts in which development and humanitarian organisations operate, and now they need to adapt their policies and practice accordingly. Sue Holden explains the concept of mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in simple language, with practical guidelines for applying the approach i...
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Making an Impact in HIV and Aids
Recogonizing that scaling up NGO programmes involves more than just additional resources, Making an Impact in HIV and AIDS analyses when expansion is appropriate, how to make it effective, how to measure the costs, and what the implications for organizations may be. The book is aimed both at HIV/...
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Disability, Equality and Human Rights
This book's basic premise is that disabled people themselves know best what their needs are and that they should be involved in the planning and delivery of relief and development initiatives. The most effective support that agencies can offer is to empower them to claim their basic human rights and...
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Aids on the Agenda
This book is written for policy makers, managers and programme staff in development and humanitarian agencies, to promote debate about the challenges that confront them in a world which has been changed for ever by the pandemic of AIDS. The book considers the possible responses to the problem and is...
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