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25 August, 2017

HIFA Country Representative Jackeline Alger is giving a presentation about HIFA at the XIII Central American and Caribbean Meeting on Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, August 22 to 26, 2017, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She is also announcing the launch of HIFA-Spanish, which we aim to start later this year in collaboration with WHO, PAHO, and the Andalucian School of Public Health. 

23 August, 2017
From 15 May to 23 June 2017 the HIFA Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice working group supported a HIFA thematic discussion on Systematic Reviews, around five questions. 89 messages, from 36 contributors, were received. This 2-page narrative review summarizes the opinions expressed.
 
See below for the full (76p) and edited (22p) versions of the discussion, respectively:
14 August, 2017

Quote of the month: “We are convinced that the truth stops at what we have learned in our schools; we are afraid to empower communities and lose importance… we just prefer to study the community approach and talk about it. But we do not want to implement it.”
Simon Kabore (HIFA Member, Directeur Exécutif du Réseau Accès aux Médicaments Essentiels, Burkina Faso), translated from a posting on the HIFA-French forum

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