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Health Policy and Planning: "Fever and its treatment among the more and less poor in
sub-Saharan Africa"
"Rx for Survival" Media Campaign Heats Up
With the PBS documentary series, "RX for Survival--A Global Health Challenge," set to air November 1-3, (9:00 pm ET/PT, PBS) a number of related events are taking place across the country:
- On October 20, Penguin Press released a companion book to the PBS documentary series, titled "Rx for Survival: Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge", by former New York Times reporter Philip Hilts. The book is now available in bookstores.
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- TIME Magazine's special issue on global health hits newsstands Monday, October 31. In addition, TIME will host a Global Health Summit in New York City, November 1-3. Speakers Include Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Lee Jong-wook, Ted Turner, Ann Veneman, Paul Farmer, Madeleine Albright, Paul Wolfowitz, Agnes Binagwaho, Rick Warren, Julie Gerberding and Bono. More
- National Public Radio will air a series of stories on global health beginning the week of October 31. CORE member AMREF will be featured in three stories, airing Wednesday, November 2 and Thursday, November 3 on "Morning Edition," and on Sunday, November 6. Go to NPR
- WNET, the PBS affiliate in New York City, held an Rx for Survival screening and panel discussion on October 17. Speakers included CORE Group Board Member Michelle Kouletio, child survival and health advisor for Concern Worldwide. CORE members AMREF USA, CARE USA, Concern Worldwide, and Helen Keller International are part of the New York Rx for Child Survival community coalition, led by WNET. More
- Kathryn Bolles, child survival specialist with CORE member Save the Children, wrote an opinion piece on child survival for the October 23 edition of the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Read article
- An October 25 screening and panel discussion hosted by KCTS/Seattle included a talk by Stephen Gloyd, Executive Director of CORE member Health Alliance International. Panelists included representatives of PATH and CARE. KCTS/Seattle
- PBS/WGBH hosted a Congressional reception and Rx for Survival screening October 19 on Capitol Hill. More than 500 people attended, including members of Congress, key committee staffers, and staff from HHS, CDC, the Surgeon's General office, the UN Foundation, the Vaccine Fund, the World Health Organization, and the Smithsonian Institution.
- Look for a re-launch of the PBS/WGBH Rx for Survival web site on October 27. Rx for Survival site
- For a full listing of local Rx for Child Survival campaign events, visit the CORE web site.
Congress Designates November 2005 "Global Health Month"
On October 18, the U.S. Senate approved, by unanimous consent, a resolution designating November 2005 as Global Health Month. The resolution encourages the people of the United States to observe the "Month of Global Health" by participating in key activities, programs, and fundraising in support of worldwide child survival. "The Month of Global Health is a great opportunity to increase awareness of the pressing global health crisis that threatens our own public health and that of all nations around the world," said U.S. Senator Patty Murray, who introduced the resolution. "We must work on a global scale to avert the millions of unnecessary deaths among children caused each year from preventable diseases."
CORE Offers Elluminate Session on Collaboratives
On November 2, the CORE Group will offer an online presentation by Dr. David Nicholas, Director, Quality Assurance Project (QAP), URC-CHS, on improvement collaboratives. A collaborative is a time-limited improvement strategy, usually lasting from 12 to 24 months, that organizes a large number of teams in problem-solving and innovation in a single technical area, with the goal of rapidly spreading existing knowledge or best practices related to that technical topic to multiple settings. Dr. Nicholas will discuss the key principles and strategies of an improvement collaborative, drawing on examples from QAP-supported collaboratives. The session is scheduled for 12:00 noon EST.
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Media Training Open to CORE Members
Public affairs firm GMMB is offering a full-day media training workshop to CORE Group members. The workshop --scheduled for November 14 in Washington, DC-- will cover the fundamentals of working with the media, including tips, tools and tactics to help build media outreach skills. In addition, reporters and Congressional staff members will share their perspectives on global health issues and the messages related to these issues. The workshop is open only to members of sponsoring organizations: the U.S. Coalition for Child Survival, AED, Global Health Council and the CORE Group. Training materials will be made available on the CORE web site following the training. For more information, contact Julia Ross/CORE Group at jross@worldvision.org.
New RBM NGO Representative Elected
On October 26, the CORE Group announced the results of the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership Board NGO Constituency Election. Chris White, a malaria control specialist with AMREF/Kenya, is the new RBM NGO Representative; the alternate NGO representative is Malama Muleba of the Zambia Malaria Foundation. The election marked the end of CORE's two-year term as NGO Representative.
The NGO representative and alternate serve for two years and are responsible for coordinating exchange of views and information; galvanizing issues of concern for malaria advocacy; liaising and coordinating among NGOs to advocate for better use of standards and practices and dissemination of data; expanding country-level NGO malaria implementation efforts; and strengthening country-level RBM partnership activities. For more information, contact Areana Quinones, Malaria Coordinator, CORE Group, at: Aquinone@worldvision.org.
CORE, White Ribbon Co-Author "Alliances for Global Health" Technical Brief
The CORE Group and the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood recently co-authored a Global Health Technical Brief titled "Building Successful Alliances for Global Health" to address key lessons learned and benefits of building alliances. The brief was released at the October 14 USAID Maximizing Access and Quality (MAQ) Initiative Workshop in Washington, DC, and has been posted on the CORE web site:
Global Health Alliances Technical Brief
Avian Flu Resources Page Posted
The CORE web site features a new page on avian flu to provide CORE members and partners with a space to share resources on avian flu preparedness and surveillance. Please send additional resources for posting to: contact@coregroup.org.
Avian Flu Resources
BRAC Represents NGOs at PMNCH Launch
On September 12, political leaders, NGOs, professional associations, multilateral agencies and donors launched the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH) at UNICEF headquarters in New York. The partnership will support country-led efforts to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5, which call for the reduction of child mortality by two-thirds and maternal mortality by three-quarters by 2015.
Speaking on behalf of NGOs, A. Mushtaque R. Chowdhury of BRAC, an NGO in Bangladesh, addressed why NGOs are essential partners in achieving the MDGS. Chowdhury's full statement is available on the CORE web site.
NGO Statement on PMNCH Launch
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Featured Resource: "Fever and its treatment among the more and less poor in sub-Saharan Africa"
A recent Health Policy and Planning article by Deon Filmer of the Development Research Group, World Bank, addresses the association between household wealth and the incidence and treatment of fever, as an indicator of malaria, among children in sub-Saharan Africa.
According to the article, DHS data from 22 countries in sub-Saharan Africa suggest a weak association between household-level poverty and the incidence of fever among children under 3 years old. Filmer concludes that wealthier households do not typically use bed nets effectively to prevent fever, and rich and poor households alike are affected by overall level of fever.
"Treatment patterns are strongly related to poverty as wealthier households are more likely to seek care or advice," the author notes. "While it is perhaps unsurprising that treatment from private sources increases with household wealth, government services -- despite their public nature -- are typically also used more by wealthier households."
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