Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to share the below piece co-authored by Dr Mohamed Yakub Janabi, the Regional Director of the World Health Organization <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization> African Region (WHO-AFRO).
How African Regional Agencies Can Shape Global Health Reform. WHO Africa regional specialists explain why continental players need to be coauthors in the reform of global health architecture
Low- and middle-income countries have been calling for major overhauls in global health governance since the early 2000s <https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/transforming-the-global-health.... Initial funding from global health initiatives, such as Gavi and the Global Fund, was directed to specific diseases instead of building primary care. Even now, high-income countries focus on reforming global health architecture and adjusting donor workflows. Although those conversations are well-intentioned, regional voices should lead discussions around proposed changes in Africa to prevent any perpetuation of inequality of access to health services.
Read more: https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/how-african-regional-agencies-...
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MOUHOUELO Pascal
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African Index Medicus (AIM) Coordination
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HIFA profile: Pascal Mouhouelo is Head Librarian at WHO/AFRO. He is also a trainer for biomedical researchers using the HINARI Access to Research in Health Programme, which offers free or very low cost online access to the major journals in biomedical not-for-profit institutions in developing countries. He is also Coordinator of the African Index Medicus and the lead author of a PLOS Medicine 2006 article "Where There Is No Internet: Delivering Health Information via the Blue Trunk Libraries." which describes a practical way to address the local absence of internet and contemporary medical textbooks in many African health care settings. Pascal is a member of the HIFA working group on Library and Information Services and is also a HIFA Country representative.
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