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Home / Archives for Globalization and Health

Assessing reported cases of sexual and gender-based violence, causes and preventive strategies, in European asylum reception facilities

  • Authors: Oliveira C, Keygnaert I, Dias S, Martins MRO
  • Publication Year: 2018
  • Journal: Globalization and Health
  • Link: https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12992-018-0365-6

Background Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) is a widespread public health problem and a violation of human rights rooted in gender and power inequities. Refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants living in European asylum reception facilities (EARF) are especially vulnerable to SGBV. To contribute to closing the gap on systematic and accurate evidence on SGBV, we aim […]
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Brazil-Africa technical cooperation in health: What’s its relevance to the post-Busan debate on ‘aid effectiveness’?

  • Authors: Cabral L, Ferrinho P, Russo G
  • Journal: Globalization and Health
  • Link: http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/9/1/2

Brazil is rapidly becoming an influential player in development cooperation, also thanks to its high-visibility health projects in Africa and Latin America. The 4th High-level Forum on Aid Effectiveness held in Busan in late 2011 marked a change in the way development cooperation is conceptualised. The present paper explores the issue of emerging donors’ contribution to the post-Busan debate on aid effectiveness by looking at Brazil’s health cooperation projects in Portuguese-speaking Africa.
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Analysis of human resources for health strategies and policies in 5 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, in response to GFATM and PEPFAR-funded HIV-activities

  • Authors: Biesma R, Brugha R, Cailhol J, Chilundo B, Craveiro I, Dussault G, Lehmann U, Madede T, Makoa E, Mathole T, Parsons AN, Sanders D, van Damme W, van Leemput L
  • Publication Year: 2013
  • Journal: Globalization and Health
  • Link: http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/9/1/52

A multi-country study was conducted from 2007 to 2011 in 5 countries (Angola, Burundi, Lesotho, Mozambique and South Africa), to assess the impact of GHIs on the health system, using a mixed methods design. This paper focuses on the impact of GFATM and PEPFAR on HRH policies.
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On the margins of aid orthodoxy: The Brazil-Mozambique collaboration to produce essential medicines in Africa

  • Authors: de Oliveira L, Russo G, Shankland A, Sitoe T
  • Publication Year: 2014
  • Journal: Globalization and Health
  • Link: http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/10/1/70

This paper looks into practicalities and evolution of this collaboration to illustrate the characteristics of Brazilian development cooperation in health, with the aim of drawing lessons for the wider debate on aid and local production of pharmaceuticals in Africa.
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GHTM is a R&D Unit that brings together researchers with a track record in Tropical Medicine and International & Global Health. It aims at strengthening Portugal's role as a leading partner in the development and implementation of a global health research agenda. Our evidence-based interventions contribute to the promotion of equity in health and to improve the health of populations.

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