| | Implementation of the Global Health Initiative: Consultation Document
Through the Global Health Initiative (GHI) the United States will invest $63 billion over six years to help partner countries improve health outcomes through strengthened health systems - with a particular focus on improving the health of women, newborns and children through programs including infectious disease, nutrition, maternal and child health, and safe water. The GHI aims to maximize the sustainable health impact the United States achieves for every dollar invested. The GHI will deliver on that commitment through a business model based on: implementing a woman- and girl-centered approach; increasing impact and efficiency through strategic coordination and integration; strengthening and leveraging key partnerships, multilateral organizations, and private contributions; encouraging country ownership and investing in country-led plans; improving metrics, monitoring and evaluation; and promoting research and innovation. Through this model the GHI will build on the Bush Administration's successful record in global health, and take these remarkable achievements to the next level by further accelerating progress and investing in sustainable health delivery systems for the future. Comments on this consultation document can be sent to ghi_comments@state.gov. The deadline for comments is February 22, 2010. [Consultation Document] |
United States and Kenya Enter into Partnership Framework to Fight HIV/AIDS | 
Recently, U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger and Kenya Minister of Finance Honorable Uhuru Kenyatta signed the Partnership Framework to Support Implementation of the Kenya National HIV Response. The overarching purpose of this Partnership Framework is to provide a five-year joint strategic agenda for cooperation between the Government of Kenya and the United States Government to achieve the goals laid out in the Kenya National AIDS Strategic Plan 2009/10 - 2012/13. The Kenya Partnership Framework will significantly contribute to the global PEPFAR goals for HIV prevention, care, treatment, and health systems strengthening. [Partnership Framework] |
Small Grants, PEPFAR and Peace Corps Team Up to Support Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Uganda | 
When Moses Mubala and Peace Corps volunteer Jessica Dyer started their demonstration farm last year, they had a small piece of land and high hopes to support orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) through an income-generating project that breeds pigs and goats. With a small grant supported by PEPFAR, these hopes are now a completed demonstration farm where animals are breeding and OVCs are learning how to care for them. This project is helping provide 55 OVC - 40 of whom are HIV-positive - with a source of income to pay for school fees, healthcare and food. [More] |
Hearts and Minds: A New Approach to Reporting on HIV/AIDS in Botswana and throughout Africa | 
The Botswana-based Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) is working with the Zambia Institute of Mass Communication Educational Trust (ZAMCOM) and the University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Telecommunications to implement the "Hearts and Minds" campaign. This campaign is designed to improve public access to timely, high-quality information on HIV/ AIDS by strengthening mass media reporting on the epidemic. The innovative partnership is managed by the HIV/AIDS Twinning Center with support from PEPFAR. The goal of the campaign is to improve the quality of HIV/AIDS reporting in Africa. To accomplish this, partners are working to motivate reporters, while at the same time engaging a broad range of non-governmental organizations, community and faith-based organizations, and international development agencies in a concerted effort to change the way people receive and react to information about HIV/AIDS. This includes providing training workshops for media professionals, as well as classes on how to effectively engage with journalists for other stakeholders. [More] |
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