PHM Africa Learning Space

Call for Proposals The International Health Partnership and related initiatives (IHP+) Initiatives related to the International Health Partnership include : the Harmonization for Health in Africa (AHA), the Catalytic Initiative, (CI), the Providing for Health (P4H) Initiative, GAVI’S Health System Strengthening (HSS), the Global Fund-National Strategy Applications, The Health Metrics Network, (HMN) , the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA), and the MDG Africa Initiative has launched a Civil Society Health Policy Action Fund in 2010. This fund is open to support health organisations, networks and coalitions in 21 IHP countries over a one-year period. The countries are Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zambia. The fund aims to support southern civil society organizations, networks and coalitions to become more ...

Medical practitioners operating at Kenya's largest public hospital called Kenyatta National Hospital went on strike yesterday and paralysed all medical services within that health institution for 10 hours. They were demanding that the government of Kenya should pay them their due arrears for 11 months adding up to a total of 87 million Kenya shillings. Patients waited patiently in the hospital wards and on long queues for the strike to be called off or solved by the relevant authority. Relevant ministers were at that moment attending a constitution conference at the Kabete about 10 kilometers away from the hospital. When PHM Kenya representative arrived to the hospital, the hospital administration had already made promise to pay the nurses as soon as possible and the nurses agreed to resume back to work this morning. I will be going there at 2:00 pm to meet some officials to see if PHM could be of help to any side. More of this later..... In solidarity. Erick Otieno Owuor