United Nations Millennium Development Goals

U4 - Utstein Anti-Corruption Resource Centre
These pages present extensive and essential on anti-corruption work and challenges in the health sector. The pages provide a comprehensive overview of the causes and consequences of corruption in the health sector, financial resources, medical equipment, supplies, distribution, health workers and patients. The pages display examples of good practice, budget transparency and public expenditure tracking surveys and offer literature lists and related links.

DfID Health System Resource Centre
The Eldis Health Systems Resource Guide is a collaboration between Eldis and the UK Department for International Development’s (DfID) Health Systems Resource Centre (HSRC). The HSRC provides access to technical assistance, knowledge and information in support of pro-poor health policies, financing and services for the Department for International Development (DFID) and its partners. See also
www.eldis.org/health/
www.eldis.org/healthsystems/
www.eldis.org/hivaids/

The Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa
EQUINET's work covers a wide range of areas identified as priorities for health equity, within the political economy of health, health services and inputs to health, covered in the theme areas shown on the site. EQUINET is governed by a steering committee with representatives from fourteen institutions in southern Africa and is co-ordinated at the Training and Research Support Centre Zimbabwe.

Health Reform Online
Resource aimed at policymakers, managers and researchers involved in health sector reform in developing countries, providing information resources, training materials, and interactive features to allow users to find targeted information and global expertise on the economics, policy strategy and implementation of health sector reform. HRO aims to provide distance-learning courses for healthcare managers, analysts and decision makers who want to learn more about the economics and financing of health care delivery. Prepared by the Economic Development Institute (EDI) at the World Bank.

Id21 development research – Health
This site provides a searchable database of concise, easy-to-read summaries of research relevant to health policy in developing countries. A wide range of subjects is covered, including health sector reform, maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, disease and disability, and environmental health. id21 Health also offers this information in a free email newsletter, 'id21HealthNews', for those with limited internet access.

International Budget Project
The International Budget Project assists non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and researchers in their efforts both to analyze budget policies and to improve budget processes and institutions. The Project is especially interested in applied research that is of use in ongoing policy debates and in research on the effects of budget policies on the poor. The Project works primarily with researchers and NGOs in developing countries or new democracies.

Healthlink Worldwide [formerly Appropriate Health Resources and Technologies Action Group (AHRTAG)]
NGO aiming to strengthen primary health care, disability services and community-based rehabilitation in the South by maximising the use and impact of information, providing training and resources and actively supporting the capacity building of partner organisations. Supports the development of information services in the South, and undertakes consultancy work on request. Operates a library and information service, open to public on appointment.

Management Sciences for Health (MSH)
MSH is a non-profit, educational and scientific organisation working to close the gap between knowledge and action in public health. Since 1971 MSH has worked with decision makers to improve the management of and access to critical health services such as primary health care, child survival, maternity and child health, family planning, and reproductive health. Experiences are shared via technical assistance, training, applied research, publications and fellowships

Partners for Health reform plus
The Partners for Health Reform plus (PHRplus) project is the U.S. Agency for International Development’s flagship project in health policy and systems strengthening.

World Health Organisation
The pages contain links to WHO projects, initiatives, activities, information products, and contacts, organized by health and development topics for all the work carried out by the United Nations specialised agency for health.

UNAIDS
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, is the main advocate for accelerated, comprehensive and coordinated global action on the epidemic.

The Global Fund
The Global Fund was created to finance treatment and prevention programmes for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The website contains information about programmes funding through the Global Fund.

Harvard School of Public Health
States as its objectives the provision of education to public health scientists, practitioners, and leaders, to foster new discoveries leading to improved health for the people of this country and all nations, to strengthen health capacities and services for communities and to inform policy debate, disseminate health information, and increase awareness of public health as a public good and fundamental right. Comprises several departments, including the Department of Health Policy and Management, where several faculty members are looking closely at corruption as a barrier to adequate health service provision.

Foundation for Integrity and Responsibility in Medicine (FIRM)
FIRM investigates current problems in health care organization and governance, and disseminate the results to physicians, health care researchers and policy-makers, and the public at large. Comment on current debates can be read on the healthcare renewal blog http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/