Results List
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Improving the Health Care System One Community at a Time
The primary health care system in many Viet Nam provinces began to deteriorate rapidly in the mid-'80s as agricultural co-operatives were dismantled under a new Government policy. This deterioration had a particularly severe impact on commune health centres (CHCs), which serve millions of the country’s…
Resource type: Grantee Story
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The Key Role of Advocacy Funding in the U.S. Health Reform Debate
The reasons why The Atlantic Philanthropies made what may be the largest U.S. advocacy grant ever in order to support health reform are outlined by Gara LaMarche, Atlantic’s President and CEO, at the Grantmakers in Health conference in Orlando, Florida. Occasionally it is better not…
Resource type: Speech
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UQ helps Vietnam with health records
Source: University of Queensland, Australia
UQ helps Vietnam with health records Published: 18 July 2006 UQ's School of Population Health will receive more than $4 million to work with Vietnamese government and medical bodies and universities to strengthen vital health data collection and plan for future health needs. UQ health…
Resource type: News
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S. Africa Embraces Study Critical of Health Policy
Source: The New York Times
Original Source Several organisations involved in this report are Atlantic grantees: Save the Children, University of Cape Town, University of the Witwatersrand, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Pretoria, and University of the Western Cape. Funding for this publication was provided by Saving Newborn Lives/Save the…
Resource type: News
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Viet Nam Ministry of Health, Department of Planning and Finance
$300,000
Resource type: Grantee
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Latin American Center for Disaster Medicine (CLAMED), Cuban Ministry of Public Health
$785,735
Resource type: Grantee
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Viet Nam Ministry of Health, Administration of Preventive Medicine
$499,900
Resource type: Grantee
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Hogan calls on sound strategies to ensure access to health care
Source: Cape Argus (South Africa)
New Health Minister Barbara Hogan has called for innovative ways to deal with the scarcity of resources in the public health sector, saying there was no point in getting desperate about the situation as it was a growing phenomenon in South Africa. Hogan was not…
Resource type: News
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WHO vows to fundraise for Vietnam's health
Source: Vietnam News Agency
Original Source Geneva (VNA) The World Health Organisation will help Vietnam source funds for developing strategies to deal with climate change's impact on health, said General Director of the UN health body Magaret Chan. Despite not being a fundraising organisation, WHO will call on international…
Resource type: News
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A Big Bet on Advocacy Helps to Make History on Health Care
Source: Gara LaMarche
“Health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.” I can’t tell you what a thrill it was to hear President Obama speak those words, a few hours ago, after signing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.…
Resource type: News
