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The Miz-Hasab Research Centre dissemination meeting in Addis Ababa. Tuesday 29th January at Ras Amba Hotel, Addis Ababa between 4:00 – 9:00 PM

Rachel Miles — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 15:49:53 +0000

Please come and join us on 29th January at Ras Amba Hotel, Addis Ababa between 4:00 – 9:00 PM for a dissemination meeting. The meeting will be hosted and organised by the Miz-Hasab Research Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. You can follow us @healthatlowcost

Editors Prof Martin McKee (@martinmckee) and Dr Dina Balabanova (@dinabalabanova) as well as co-author Dr Hailom Banteyerga and other local collaborators will be in attendance. Participants of this meeting will also include representatives from the regional health bureaus, FMOH and other sector ministries, and development partners in health.

The main purposes of this meeting are to:

(i) Launch the Good Health at Low Cost

(ii) Bring experience from other countries facing similar issues in the region.

(iii) Talk about key issues in health systems

If you would like to attend, please let our colleagues at Miz-Hasab know:

Aklilu Kidanu – *protected email*

Hailom Banteyerga – *protected email*

We very much hope you will be able to join us for news on GHLC in Ethiopia.

Thurs 1st Nov 2012 – Application of the GHLC analytical approach to health financing innovations

Rachel Miles — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:02:04 +0000

Innovative health financing and the achievement of Universal Coverage in the Mekong Countries: Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam

Come and see how we apply the Good Health at Low Cost analytical approach to health financing innovations in the countries in the Mekong delta at the Global Health Systems symposium in Beijing.

GHLC editor Dr Dina Balabanova will be presenting -

Analytical framework: Four themes characterizing successful health systems, from good health at low cost

[Chaired by Dr Kara Hanson]

on Thursday 1st November in the ‘Proposed lancet series on the private sector in health’ session at 16:30 – 18:00.

We hope to see you there!

Questions and discussions

Rachel Miles — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 14:02:23 +0000

Should you have any questions or challenges for the authors of ‘Good Health at Low Cost 25 years on’ please post your questions here!!!

Meet the GHLC team!

Rachel Miles — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 15:22:34 +0000

Please come and meet the GHLC editors (Professor Anne Mills, Professor Martin McKee and Dr Dina Balabanova) and authors on Thursday 1st November at 16:00. You will find the team at Table 9 in the Marketplace at the Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Beijing.

This is a great opportunity to ask questions and give us some feedback and we look forward to the chance to meet you!

[http://www.hsr-symposium.org/]

For more details of LSHTM’s presence at the Symposium please see this HESA event sheet.

GHLC at the 2nd Global Symposium of Health Systems Research, Beijing 31st October – 3rd November 2012

Rachel Miles — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:39:08 +0000

The team behind ‘Good Health at Low Cost 25 years on’ will be well represented at the Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research which is taking place in Beijing from 31 October to 3 November 2012. Two of the three documentaries produced will be presented at sessions during the Symposium; from Bangladesh “Health transcends poverty: the Bangladesh Experience” and Ethiopia “Placing health at the centre of development”. More information can be found at [http://www.hsr-symposium.org/images/stories/downloads/20120810001.pdf].

In addition, our country representatives Professor Viroj Tangcharoensathien (Thailand) and Dr. Hailom Banteyerga (Ethiopia) will all be presenting this and other research and we are looking forward to exciting discussions. Editors Professor Martin McKee (Chair) and Dr Dina Balabanova will also be present to talk about some of the issues and experiences of the study.

The Global Health Symposium also has a Facebook page where the documentaries are currently available to view and download: [https://www.facebook.com/HsrSymposium]

In addition, LSHTM will have a stall in the marketplace where some electronic copies of the book and related materials will be available.

GHLC Documentaries

Rachel Miles — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:34:58 +0000

The three documentaries produced from the ‘Good Health at Low Cost 25 years on’ project are now available to all to watch for free online.

Each contains some vital messages that can be applied worldwide.

We hope you enjoy them!!!

Ethiopia – “Placing health at the centre of development” http://vimeo.com/39624357

Bangladesh – “Health transcends poverty: the Bangladesh Experience” http://vimeo.com/38505785

Thailand – “Why and how did Thailand achieve good health at low cost?” http://vimeo.com/45237856

World AIDS Day Statement

nexus — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:09:09 +0000

This year’s World AIDS Day comes at an exciting time for HIV prevention and treatment. Thirty years after the first case was reported, new science has now shown that treating people with HIV medication (anti-retrovirals) can substantially reduce the risk of transmission while smarter investments in prevention strategies have opened up a debate on the prospect of ending AIDS.

Teams at the School are working hard in the fight against HIV/AIDS in a range of ways. For example, major funding was recently awarded for the PopART project in Africa, which will test the impact of a combination of house-to-house voluntary testing for HIV, male circumcision and offer of immediate initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all those testing HIV-positive.

But as the researchers behind the recently-published Good Health at Low Cost – 25 years onpoint out, a crucial weapon against the disease is a functioning health system to ensure those in need receive treatment and are regularly monitored. The LSHTM project (funded by the Rockefeller Foundation) holds some clues to help policy-makers in low and middle income countries build stronger health systems – useful at a time when countries around the world contemplate how to tackle their HIV/AIDS epidemics.

One of the editors, Dr Dina Balabanova, said: “Health systems represent the cornerstone in achieving universal access targets for HIV treatment and prevention. The lessons in our book go some way in helping policy-makers understand the key pillars required in transforming health systems and with it health care.”

The School’s Director, AIDS expert Professor Peter Piot, has meanwhile contributed to a special feature for the Daily Telegraph: World AIDS Day 2011: what we now know

From Tracey Koehlmoos

nexus — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:53:46 +0000

Over the last two years, I have written a few times about the work that the team and I have been doing on discovering the secret of Bangladesh’s ability to produce so much improvement in the health status of the people. The project was created to mark the 25th anniversary of the original publication of Good Health at Low Cost, and with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, a team of researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, along with partner institutions from Bangladesh, Tamil Nadu, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, and Thailand, revisited the original messages. We asked: Why do some developing countries manage to achieve advances in health while others falter? What factors drive improvements in the health system and in access to primary health care? How can we act on the social determinants of health in cash-strapped economies? How have the study countries achieved the health status we observe today? While many determinants of health remain unchanged, Good Health at Low Cost 2011 highlights the greater potential of health systems to improve health.

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nexus — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:23:10 +0000

We have set up a Good health at low cost blog.