HRH Global Resource Center November Newsletter

News

• Fiji and Samoa have been added to the geographic category
• The GRC has launched a new and improved version of the site that includes some exciting additional features. More information about these features will be coming soon, and we encourage you to explore the updated GRC.
• News articles this month include:
  • International Conference on Gender-based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • International Conference on Scaling Up
  • PEPFAR Reauthorization Passes U.S. Senate
  • Care and Support Program for People Living with HIV/AIDS
  • Fifteenth Canadian Conference on International Health
  • Global Health Challenges and Opportunities in Africa Conference
• Resource Spotlights include:
  • Guidelines for Occupational Safety and Health, Including HIV in the Health Services Sector
  • Global Atlas of the Health Workforce
• The GRC currently has 1,831 resources. Ten of the latest additions are below including the Capacity Project publication: "Human Relations: Building Leadership in Southern Sudan's Health Sector."

10 Resources Added This Month

Global Atlas of the Health Workforce
Estimates of the stock (absolute numbers) and density (per 1000 population) of the health workforce are available here for 193 Member States. [adapted from publisher]

Men's Reproductive Health Curriculum
This three-part curriculum is designed to provide a broad range of health care workers with the skills and sensitivity needed to work with male clients and provide men's reproductive health services. [from author]

Caring for Caregivers: an HIV/AIDS Workplace Intervention for Hospital Staff in Zambia, Evaluation Results
This evaluation study describes the significant effect of HIV morbidity and mortality among the workers in Zambia’s health care system. [adapted from introduction]

Laboring to Nurse: the Work of Rural Nurses who Provide Maternity Care
This study considered the experiences of rural nurses and their contributions to maternity care in rural and remote settings and in the small towns where women might be referred for care surrounding childbirth. [from introduction]

Guidelines for Occupational Safety and Health, Including HIV in the Health Services Sector
This document covers the basic principles that are required to ensure workplace safety and health including hazard identification, risk management, prevention and management of exposures and incidents. [from foreword]

Human Relations: Building Leadership in Southern Sudan's Health Sector
This version of Voices discusses the Capacity Project's work with the Ministry of Health in Southern Sudan to strengthen its ability to plan for and manage the health workforce. [adapted from author]

Performance-Based Contracting for Health Services in Developing Countries: a Toolkit
This toolkit provides practical advice to anyone involved in, or who is interested in becoming involved in, performance-based contracting of health services with non-state providers in the context of developing countries. It addresses many of the issues that may be encountered and provides input from experienced contracting professionals. [adapted from introduction]

World Health Report 2008: Primary Health Care Now More than Ever
The 2008 World Health Report revisits the vision of primary health care as a set of values and principles for guiding the development of health systems. It represents an opportunity to identify major avenues for health systems reform in the areas of universal coverage, service delivery, public policy and leadership. [adapted from publisher]

Improving Community Health Worker Use of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests in Zambia: Package Instructions, Job Aid and Job Aid-Plus-Training
Increased interest in parasite-based malaria diagnosis has led to increased use of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), particularly in rural settings, but most clinics lack sufficient staff to administer them. Use of RDTs by volunteer community health workers (CHWs) is one alternative, but most sub-Saharan African countries prohibit CHWs from handling blood, and little is known about CHW ability to use RDTs safely and effectively. [adapted from introduction]

AAAH Brief Country Reports on HRH Development Activities 2008
This website contains brief country reports on HRH development activities in 2008 from nations belonging to the Asia-Pacific Action Alliance on HRH. Countries represented include Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Samoa, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

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