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ADB visiting Denmark, health on agenda

Pia Pannula 22. September 2015

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is visiting Denmark and together the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are organising a seminar: Business Opportunities with Asian Development Bank on 24 September 2015. The seminar aims to inform Danish companies about opportunities for involvement in ADB financed projects. The seminar has a special focus on two specific sectors: health and clean energy.

Below you will find some of the background material used in the seminar:

A Prezi-presentation on the ADB’s new vision for health in 2015-2020 by Dr Susan Roth, Senior Social Development Specialist from the health sector group secretariat.
Briefing Paper: Health in Asia and the Pacific: In Brief

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GHM Controversial Issue Brief: Big Pharma

Pia Pannula 11. May 2015

In the GHM Controversial Issue Brief titled ‘How can we collaborate with Big Pharma in global health?‘, Nicolai Lohse writes:

The combination of pharmaceutical companies and global health invariably makes one think of the huge lack of access to medicine in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Drugs are either not affordable, not available at all, only available intermittently due to frequent pharmacy stock-outs, of poor quality, ineffective, or they are counterfeit and may even be unsafe.

Making quality medicine available, affordable, and accessible to all who need them is extremely complicated and requires a coordinated effort by many global health actors – including the pharmaceutical industry. In this need for collaborative solutions lies also the key to involving drug companies as a partner in global health.

Download the brief on Big Pharma.

Photo credit: Erling Høg

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GHM Emerging Issue Brief: Universal Health Coverage

Pia Pannula 27. March 2015

“Universal Health Coverage can only lead to health and well-being for all, when it is accompanied by progress in the social determinants of health and through respect for and fulfillment of the human right to health”, argues Diederike Geelhoed in the Global Health Minders Emerging Issue Brief on Universal Health Coverage.

Download the brief on Universal Health Coverage.

Photo credit: Diederike Geelhoed

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GHM Emerging Issue Brief: Infertility

Pia Pannula 8. March 2015

To mark the International Women’s Day, we are happy to introduce an Emerging Issue Brief on Infertility. As the authors Siri Tellier and Josephine Obel write, infertility is not a new problem. However, in the last decade it has attracted increasing attention, focusing on three concerns:

A medical/clinical concern that an increasing number of couples are seeking Medically Assisted Reproduction (MAR) and that some risk factors for infertility are increasing.
An economic/demographic concern regarding decreasing birth rates, leading to reduced labor force.
A human rights concern that couples have fewer children than they wish.

Download the brief here.

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Klaus Winkel’s history of global health

Pia Pannula 5. March 2015

Klaus Winkel,  Former Head of Department in Danida, looks back in time and tells the story of Danish involvement in the field of international and global health through his own experiences and engagement.

“Support for health has dwindled over the years as a share of Danish development assistance, but this does not necessarily mean that improving health is considered less important. Rather, that it has become crowded out as a result of the ever increasing number of objectives for Danish aid, and that the many determinants of health, outside the health sector, are being addressed by a variety of interventions.”

Download the GHM Invited Commentary: ‘A history of Danish development assistance for global health’.

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GHM Emerging Issue Brief: Menstrual hygiene

Pia Pannula 26. February 2015

Until recently, menstrual hygiene has been a forgotten global health challenge even though there is evidence of serious negative impacts of poor menstrual hygiene on girls’ and women’s health, social lives and education. Supplying girls and women with proper methods and knowledge to manage their menstruations should be a major global health concern, underline authors Thilde Rheinländer and Mary Wachira in the Global Health Minders Emerging Issue Brief: Menstrual Hygiene: An ancient – but ignored Global Health problem of all women.

Photo credit: Erich Ogoso/IRIN

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