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HIV-exposed and Marginalized
1 Vulnerable to HIV But Neglected Focus on trafficked women serving as sex workers Michel ODIKA Crucial necessity for a wide-reaching approach Every year large numbers of women are trafficked, either across international borders or within their own countries. All regions of the world are affected, although there are some well-established routes. Despite the magnitude of the phenomenon, highly variable from place to place, the world is still slow in recognizing its gravity and, as a result, hum
Category:Health & MedicineReads:290Uploaded:08 / 17 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionAntimalarials: Therapeutic Progress Confronted With Strategic Interests
1 Antimalarials: Therapeutic Progress Confronted With Strategic Interests Historical process of political significance… Michel ODIKA Most people are not very interested in the history of a particular medicine. Quinine, however, is rather different and occupies a special place. For 300 years this was the only specific treatment for malaria. It has now been used for 360 years. It was being used long before Ehrlich wrote down the principles of chemotherapy. The story of its discovery, the impor
Category:Health & MedicineReads:819Uploaded:08 / 06 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionHow to Mainstream Large-scale Disasters?
1 Why? Michel ODIKA War in Brazzaville (Congo) (1). War Philosophy: Cogito ergo… boom (Susan SONTAG) Before else, there is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. However, it is no waste of time to remember some things of crucial importance. Especially noteworthy is the fact that “forgotten is forgivenâ€, according to Scott FITZGERALD. WARNING – It is not catastrophes, murders or diseases that kill – it is the way people believe and think (Virginia WOOLF, novelist
Category:Magazines/NewspapersReads:339Uploaded:07 / 20 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionAIDS Global Management: What Does Therapeutic Failure Really Mean?
1 AIDS Global Management: What Does Therapeutic Failure Really Mean? Bridging the gap and breaking the silence… Michel ODIKA Photo: UNAIDS. But what is the matter? First of all, a highly necessary and useful warning. The purpose here, then, is not to deny the efficacy of antiretrovirals (ARVs) in controlling AIDS epidemic, whether by helping restore the immune response or by inhibiting the viral replication. Instead, the key point on which to insist lies not so much in rejecting a scientifi
Category:Health & MedicineReads:720Uploaded:07 / 20 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionHealth Programmes Management: Performance-based Funding Approach
1 Health Programmes Management: Performance-based funding Approach Michel ODIKA To date, many countries still need to strengthen the use of strategic information1 to identify the financial resources they already have, so that they can estimate where money is required. In this purpose, software programs are developed around the world to address this specific problem. Among other tasks, those programs provide the platform for a database to support monitoring and evaluation. More specifically, the
Category:Health & MedicineReads:384Uploaded:07 / 20 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionHealth Information Systems: Challenges and Perspectives
1 Health Information Systems: Challenges and Perspectives How to learn from and share experience? Michel ODIKA The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones (John KEYNES, economist). Political will for strengthening governance capacity… Contemporary health systems tend to become increasingly complex, in the sense that multiple stakeholders are interconnected, with constantly shifting boundaries. In many points, the credibility and legitimacy of health po
Category:Health & MedicineReads:879Uploaded:06 / 30 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionMalaria Politically Strategic Importance
1 Malaria Politically Strategic Importance Spotlight on a historical continuum Michel ODIKA May the past be taken as a guidance for the future… Necessary preliminary… Before anything, the amazing number of Nobel Prizes for Medicine awarded to works on malaria is undoubtedly testimony to its strategic importance. According to reliable statistics, approximately 40 % of the world’s population is at high risk of experiencing malaria and its damaging impact. Still, when compounded over the ye
Category:Health & MedicineReads:868Uploaded:06 / 11 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionFusion des ministères de la santé et de l'environnement
1 Fusion des ministères de la santé et de l’environnement Préalable indispensable à la gestion sécuritaire de la politique sanitaire du Congo-Brazzaville Michel ODIKA Résumé Le profil sanitaire de la République du Congo relève pour l’essentiel d’un cumul défavorable de vulnérabilités et d’insécurités environnementales. En conséquence de quoi, plusieurs éléments et arguments militent en faveur de la fusion des ministères de la santé et de l’environnement. A l’orig
Category:Health & MedicineReads:1,186Uploaded:06 / 04 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionCross-cutting view on health spending
1 Cross-cutting View on Health Spending Motivational examples for countries classified as “poor†Michel ODIKA With regard to the impact of health spending on health outcomes, countless people are liable to error, while most of them are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. Nevertheless, what we commonly call “truth†emerges more readily from error than from confusion. What is the matter? Disparities and inequalities in terms of health care spending are large a
Category:Health & MedicineReads:374Uploaded:05 / 12 / 2009ShareAdd to collectionPaludisme: du passé militaro-sanitaire à la plus fébrile actualité
1 PALUDISME : du passé « militarosanitaire » à la plus fébrile actualité… Michel ODIKA Le paludisme se classe dans la foisonnante rubrique des maladies parasitaires. Son agent vecteur, actuellement aussi connu que certaines vedettes hollywoodiennes, n’est autre qu’un moustique, plus précisément l’anophèle femelle. Dont les piqûres, en plus d’être douloureuses, peuvent se révéler fatales. Ce qui fait de la bête, nuisible s’il en est, au minimum un « tueur en série »,
Category:Health & MedicineReads:974Uploaded:05 / 09 / 2009ShareAdd to collection
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