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Access To Health Care For Vulnerable Populations
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Community Based Management for Health: Adaptive Implementation in the Millennium Villages Project
Community-Based Management for Health (CBMH) is the operational framework to enable tighter interconnections between clinics and the communities they serve in low-resource settings. Although various national-policies exist that preclude uniformity in the package of primary care skills and services offered, CBMH focuses upon the optimal management, supervision and implementation of available resources. Through this process, human resources for health such as Community Health Workers are developed from a management/operational perspective to tightly interlink communities with clinics while alleviating the inappropriate burden of preventative ailments in health centers. This requires well developed and interlocking supervisory mechanisms to ensure that errors are corrected and services are optimally delivered.
By UNDP, Earth Institute, Columbia University
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Epidemic Control for Volunteers (ECV) Training Manual and Toolkit
Responding to epidemics in developing countries has largely been a business of international organizations such as WHO and INGOs in terms of investigation and verification and of Ministries of Health (MoH) in affected countries who mobilise their mainly medical structures to respond to the needs of affected populations, contain the infection, and provide medical care and prevention. Other actors can be involved in the process depending on the context.
By International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) - Health and Care department
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Health workforce financing: tools for development
Health workers often are the largest cost element in health systems in low-income
countries. Yet, information on the best practices for mobilizing the needed resources
for health workforce scale-up and related issues has been scarce. In January 2008,
the Global Health Workforce launched a special Task Force to focus on the issue of
health workforce financial planning and resource mobilization at the country-level.
Health workforce financing is one of the most critical components of scaling-up
human resources for health. Within the Kampala Declaration and Agenda for Global
Action, financing is one of six critical areas for action in order to reach progress.
By World Health Organization (WHO)
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 Healthy migrants, healthy Thailand: Improving health conditions of migrants in priority provinces of Thailand
Thailand;s relative economic and social stability makes it a primary destination for many regional migrants who are confronted with difficult political and/or economic conditions. Over two million migrants are estimated to be living or working in Thailand. Approximately one-fifth are legally registered with the Thai Ministry of Labour to work in Thailand. Both registered and unregistered migrants are vulnerable to health risks due to limited or inadequate access to basic health services and poor living conditions.
By International Organization for Migration (IOM)
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The People Living with HIV Stigma Index
The People Living with HIV Stigma Index is a new research initiative - driven and implemented by people living with HIV - to measure stigma and disctimination relating to HIV. It has been developed and is the result of a partnership between the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), two networks of people living with HIV: the Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+) and the International Community of Women living with HIV (ICW), and The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
By UNAIDS in partnership with the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
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 Community health services in difficultly accessible regions
Based on an island survey carried out by Terre des Hommes in the late nineties, the
CIHEP program was launched to provide preventive and curative health care services for
a population of some 165,000 islanders. The program was first established in 2000 to
support the people of the offshore islands in the Bay of Bengal. The island population is
isolated from the mainland district headquarters. More than 90% of the people suffer
from poverty and landlessness as many have lost their lands due to river erosion. In
addition the southern part of Bangladesh is frequently hit by cyclones and tidal surges
causing many deaths and widespread damage. The most severe ones were the cyclones
in 1970, 1985 and 1991. In December 2007 the area was again hit by cyclone SIDR.
By Terre Des Hommes International Federation
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Heartfile's Health Equity financing pilot project
In a poverty perpetuating and precipitating context, economic shocks involving catastrophic
spending are the most common risks facing households in Pakistan. "Spending catastrophically" means
spending of critical savings, selling assets, relinquishing basic needs and/or borrowing in order to finance
healthcare through out-of-pocket payments. Two thirds of the households recently surveyed in Pakistan
reported that they had been affected by one or more health shocks and had spent catastrophically during
the last 3 years. Since the breadwinners of most of these poor households are in the non-formally
employed sector, there are difficulties in using insurance as a means of protecting them against the risks of
economic health shocks.
By Heartfile
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Implementing and scaling up of Harm Reduction (HR) in Afghanistan
Since April 2006 Médecins du Monde-France (MdM-F) has been implementing the first HR programme in Afghanistan. This programme is located in Kabul and aims to contribute actively to define an Afghan HR strategy in order to halt and reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS.
By Médecins du Monde
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My Child Matters Campaign Cancer Capacity Building Fund
Cancer in the developing world has become a silent, but widespread epidemic. In the world today, cancer kills more people than AIDS, TB and Malaria combined. Two-thirds of cancer-related deaths occur in low-and middle-income countries, where resources available for cancer control are limited or non-existent and incidence is predicted to escalate. Without significant improvement, over 12 million people are projected to succumb from this disease every year by 2030. In developed countries about 75% of children with cancer survive, but in resource-constrained countries most children do not.
By International Union Against Cancer (UICC)
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Strengthening of emergency obstetrical and surgical care at Health facility level, by task shifting, Tigray region, Ethiopia
Mortality due to pregnancy and child birth is a leading cause of death in Ethiopia, where approximately 22 000 women die during pregnancy or childbirth every year (WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA. Maternal Mortality in 2005). Health services utilization is low with 15% of deliveries taking place in health facilities at national level and 10.4% in the Tigray region. Although the Physician population ratio is 1/ 35 493 at national level, it dropped at 1/111 154 at Tigray level (population in Tigray 4 millions).
By Médecins du Monde
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 Technologies for Sustainable On-site Sanitation for Improved Global Public Health
Research, innovation of new, sustainable, affordable/cost-effective eco-friendly, technically appropriate and culturally acceptable on-site sanitation technologies and their implementation on large scale in individual houses and at public places in urban, peri-urban and rural areas in India.
By Sulabh International Social Service (NGO in Special Consultative status with ECOSOC)
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Children Without Worms: Partnership for Treating and Preventing Intestinal Worms
Soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) is a disease of poverty. It is one of the neglected tropical diseases affecting the world's poorest and most vulnerable populations. Infected and at-risk populations lack access to health education, sanitary latrines, and potable water and are, therefore, continuously exposed to the worms and eggs in their environment. The effects of STH are especially harmful for children, who endure the highest rates of infection. These children suffer from diarrhea, fatigue, abdominal swelling, and pain. Left untreated, STH may lead to impaired cognitive development, reduced school attendance and performance, and ultimately, decreased productivity as adults - all of which perpetuate the cycle of poverty.
By Johnson & Johnson
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 The REACH Program
Siemens Healthcare provides innovative products, comprehensive solutions and highly responsive services across the entire healthcare continuum, including prevention, early diagnosis, therapy and ongoing care. By combining the most advanced laboratory diagnostics, imaging systems and healthcare information technology, we enable clinicians to diagnose disease earlier and more accurately, making a decisive contribution to improving the quality of healthcare. The offerings are divided into three divisions:
By Siemens
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