EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR GLOBAL HEALTH TO EUROPEAN ALLIANCE AGAINST MALARIA

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EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR GLOBAL HEALTHTOEUROPEAN
ALLIANCE AGAINST MALARIA

• Barcelona, 28 de febrero de 2007

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• Barcelona, 28 Feb.
  2007
  Patricia Huerto

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Human Poverty

• Poverty is not just a financial state. Being poor
  affects life in many ways. The human poverty
  index uses indicators that capture non-financial
  elements of poverty, such as life expectancy,
  adult literacy, water quality, and children that
  are underweight. The 30 territories of the
  Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
  Development use a different index which includes
  income and long-term unemployment and not water
  quality or underweight children. This implies
  that the poor in richer territories are
  materially better off.The highest human poverty
  index scores are in Central Africa, the lowest
  are in Japan. Territory size shows the
  proportion of the world population living in
  poverty living there (calculated by multiplying
  population by one of two poverty indices).
  (www.worldmapper.org)

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MDG on Health

• Goal 4 Reduce child mortality
• - Target 5 Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990
  and 2015, the under-five mortality rate.
• Goal 5 Improve maternal health
• - Target 6 Reduce by three-quarters, between
  1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
• Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other
  diseases
• - Target 7 Have halted by 2015 and begun to
  reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS 18.
• - Target 8 Have halted by 2015 and begun to
  reverse the incidence of malaria and other major
  diseases

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Who are we?
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Emerging issuesorWorking groups

• Financing for health
• Health system strengthening
• Gender and health
• RD for diseases of poverty

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Financing for health (Core Issues)

• Official Development Aid levels
• International Monetary Found ceilings
• Range of delivery mechanisms
• Balance of budget support with project funding

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AID TO HEALTH 1996-2004Source CRS and DAC
statistics
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2. Health system strengthening (Core Issues)

• Human resources
• User fees
• Community participation
• Equity

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Public Health Spending

• Public health spending is all government spending
  on health care, plus money from grants, social
  insurance and non-governmental organisations.
  Public health spending reduces, or even
  eliminates, the direct cost of health care to an
  individual.
• Territory size shows the proportion of worldwide
  spending on public health services that is spent
  there. This spending is measured in purchasing
  power parity. (www.worldmapper.org)

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3. Gender and Health(Core Issues)

• Gender disaggregated data needed
• Responsive systems
• Infant mortality and gender differences
• Maternal health indicators addressed through
  reproductive health rights

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Maternal Mortality

• In the year 2000, more than 513 thousand women
  died due to pregnancy-related causes. The map
  shows that most of these maternal deaths were in
  Southern Asian and African territories. The
  fewest maternal deaths were in Western Europe and
  Japan.
• The highest rate of maternal deaths was in Sierra
  Leone, where 2 mothers die per 100 births. At the
  other extreme, Malta and Iceland reported no
  maternal deaths in 2000. The world average is 386
  maternal deaths for every 100,000 births.
  (www.worldmapper.org)

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4. RD for diseases of poverty (Core Issues)

• Closing the 1090 gap (10/90 gap refers to the
  statistical finding of the Global forum for
  Health Research that only ten per cent of
  worldwide expenditure on health research and
  development is devoted to the problems that
  primarily affect the poorest 90 per cent of the
  world's population)
• Lack of appropriate products for developing
  countries
• Restricted access to products

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Affordable Drugs

• This map shows where people with access to
  essential and affordable medicines live. The
  World Health Organisation (WHO) defines essential
  medicines as those that satisfy the priority
  health care needs of the population. The WHO
  states that these should be available in adequate
  amounts, with assured quality and accompanying
  information, at prices that are affordable to the
  community and individuals.
• Of the total world population, 69 have access to
  affordable essential drugs. That means 1.9
  billion people live without access to these
  drugs. (www.worldmapper.org)

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And what about Malaria?
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Malaria Cases

• Territory size shows the proportion of all people
  living with malaria worldwide, that live there.
  (www.worldmapper.org)

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And what can we do together, both networks?

• To share information?
• To join work opportunities?
• To take advantage of expertise?

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Thanks for your time and good
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