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Modern technology is now being embraced by development organisations working in the health sector as a mechanism to increase efficiency and effectiveness in health care delivery.
In 2001, Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development introduced “mainstreaming HIV and AIDS” as a strategy for the German Development Cooperation in Africa. Since then GTZ in Kenya and Ghana like many other German agencies together with our partners initiated and established workplace programmes to prevent and control HIV and related diseases among [...]
The German Development Cooperation (GDC) works intensively with Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and networks in the Public Private Partnership (PPP) context in an effort to achieve both national and global health goals.
The Development Partners in Health Kenya (DPHK) held the monthly meeting on 20 May 2010 in Nairobi. GDC/GTZ participated in the meeting as one of the Deputy Chairs of the group and also as the sub-sector lead in Health Financing, Reproductive Health and Public-Private Partnerships (PPP).
The Capacity Building for Effective (CBEH) Health Financing programme, which started in May 2009, came to a close at an evaluation workshop held in Hanoi, Vietnam from 10-13 May 2010.
In 2006 the Ministry of Health, with the support of various stakeholders, worked on integrating Family Planning (FP) into HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT).
The International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) has for many years been at the forefront in developing ways of documenting field experiences and best practices using a process known as the writeshop. This is an approach where participatory learning is employed to collect information and document case studies from target populations.
A new study aimed at better understanding the factors contributing to HIV risk that followed 3,321 discordant couples in seven African countries over a two-year period revealed that the risk of men contracting HIV from their female partners is doubled during pregnancy.