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The 58th World Health Assembly called for all health systems to move towards universal coverage where everyone has access to key promotive, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health interventions at an affordable cost. Universal coverage involves ensuring that health care benefits are distributed on the basis of need for care and not on ability to pay. [...]

Alcohol consumption accounts for over 4% of the global burden of disease and an even higher figure in developing countries. Several policies have been proposed to curb the negative impact of alcohol misuse. Apart from South Africa, which has witnessed a rapid development in alcohol policy, such policies are poorly developed in most African countries. [...]

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A new report has just been published that provides insights from the Oliver Tambo Fellowship Programme (OTFP) conference entitled Innovative Health Management in the Public Sector. Attended health system leaders, the conference “provided a platform for sharing experience and dialogue among those engaged in, and supporting, health system leadership in South Africa”. The report is [...]

HEU research has been published in two articles of the International Journal for Equity in Health: Who pays for health care in Ghana? (by Di McIntyre & colleagues) -  Financial protection against the cost of unforeseen ill health has become a global concern as expressed in the 2005 World Health Assembly resolution (WHA58.33), which urges [...]

The REACH project has been running for 4 years. Study sites include Mpumalanga, the Western Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. The study is using maternal health, TB and ARV as tracers to assess equity and access in regards to services in these areas. This PHASA conference is focusing on reducing health inequities so [...]

With a green paper released for public consultation, role-players and citizens have, for the first time, some concrete information as to how the South Africa health-care landscape is going to be transformed….PRETORIA NEWS

The Oxford Emergent Tuberculosis Consortium (OETC) hosted a  meeting of TB experts during October 2011 in Cape Town. The meeting covered issues in the clinical development and implementation of late stage TB vaccines.   The OETC, a consortium that is developing a TB vaccine, is a joint venture between the University of Oxford and Emergent [...]

A 3-page policy brief summarises the findings of an MPH dissertation that analysed the cost effectiveness of improving the quality of care of children admitted in district hospitals in Kenya. Written by Dr Edwine Barasa, the work was supervised by Prof Mike English (Kenya Medical Research Institute & Oxford University) and A/Prof Sue Cleary (HEU). [...]

Following up on early 2011 discussions with the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) about the prospect of increasing collaboration between researchers, September/October 2011 saw the arrival of two KEMRI researchers (Dr Sassy Molyneux and Mr Lairumbi Mbaabu) to the HEU offices to collaborate with HEU’s Professor Lucy Gilson and Associate Professor Sue Cleary (Prof Gilson [...]