Dear friends and colleagues,
In Africa, tuberculosis (TB) is the most common cause of death from a curable infectious disease. The nutritional consequences of active TB are well recognized by clinicians, yet little is known about effective nutritional management, nor of the interactions between TB treatment and nutritional status.
We are pleased to share our recent paper which reviews scientific literature on the role of nutrition in TB disease, summarizes key findings and knowledge gaps, and investigates related programmatic experience.
The primary target audiences for this review are nutrition program managers in Africa and technical advisors in TB programs.
Central themes include:
- TB, and TB/HIV co-infection
- Malnutrition, immunity and TB
- Micronutrients and TB
- Incorporating nutrition into TB programs
The PDF is available online at:
http://africahealth2010.aed.org/PDF/Nutrition and TB_Final.pdf (http://africahealth2010.aed.org/PDF/Nutrition%20and%20TB\_Final\.pdf\)
Africa's Health in 2010
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Dear Colleagues,
Any know how to define an Urban School from a Rural School in KwaZulu-Natal province, here in Durban, South Africa?
We have tried local Departments of Education and Health, School NGO's, Research institutes etc. - we could not really get a tangible answer or listing.
Your input would be sincerely appreciated,
Best wishes
Prasidh Ramson
Research, Monitoring and Evaluation
http://www.icee.org
272 Umbilo Road
Durban
4001
South Africa
mailto:Prasidh@iceeafrica.co.za
Dear Tammy,
Thanks for sharing this useful information on TB and Nutrition. I was very exited to read the contents of the message, unfortunately when I tried to open the web with the report I got; message page cannot be found. I tried several times the same message comes up. Can you please re-send to me? I am Principal Research Scientist working on and with; a lot of interest on TB research.
Regards,
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Dr. N. Range
NIMR, Tanzania
mailto:hn_range@yahoo.co.uk
Dear Dr Range,
Thank you for your message, we are thrilled to hear of your interest in the publication. Apologies for the inconvenience of the link not working - I am not sure what happened. [AFRO-NETS MODERATOR: THE NAME OF THE DOCUMENT HAD BEEN CHANGE. IT IS NOW
http://africahealth2010.aed.org/PDF/Nutrition_and_TB.pdf\]
Please try going to our website:
http://africahealth2010.aed.org/pubs.html and towards the bottom of the list you will see the TB and Nutrition publication.
If you still have problems, I am happy to send you a PDF document � but it�s about 8MB and I don't want to clog up your email! Please let me know if you are able to access the document,
Tammy
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Tammy Loverdos
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Africa's Health in 2010
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Thank you - we have changed the name back to match the email sent out last week. The link is therefore:
http://africahealth2010.aed.org/PDF/Nutrition%20and%20TB_Final.pdf
Tammy
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Tammy Loverdos
Publications Coordinator
Advocacy, Communication & Dissemination
Africa's Health in 2010
Tel: +202 884 8212
Fax: +202 884 8447
http://www.africahealth2010.aed.org
mailto:tloverdos@aed.org
Dear Tammy,
Thank you very much. I successful downloaded the publication. I was very happy to see that one of my publications on "the effect of multi-vitamins on TB mortality---" was quoted, ref. No.92.
Cheers,
Dr. Range
mailto:hn_range@yahoo.co.uk
Dear friends and colleagues,
Imbalances in quantity and quality of human resources for health (HRH) are increasingly recognized as perhaps the most critical impediment to achieving health outcome objectives in most African countries. However, reliable data on the HRH situation is often not readily available. Our new paper addresses the issue of data use for HRH policy-making. It provides valuable information to the body of literature available to policy-makers and their development partners as they grapple with the development and implementation of workable HRH policies. Data was collected in 2006 from key informants (including the heads of Human Resource functions at the ministries of health and their technical advisors) from a convenient sample of countries known to have conducted HRH assessments in the last three years.
The paper finds that few countries have functioning HRH management information systems that can routinely provide data without the need for special studies. Countries seem to rely more on ad hoc studies to generate data that should be routinely available from a functioning Human Resources for Health Information System (HRHIS). Ministries of health are severely constrained by the lack of skilled human resource managers. Many countries also do not have, and still need assistance in developing, comprehensive HRH policies and plans. Human resources for health advocates play a key role in ensuring that available data is used for policy action and the involvement of all key stakeholders improves the acceptability of proposed HRH policies. The MOH must obtain broad stakeholder consensus from the outset in dealing comprehensively with the HRH crisis. Due to the complex and multidimensional nature of the HRH crisis, it requires a response that is embedded within comprehensive strategic plans for health that address the development of the health system as a whole. The HRH policies and plans would then fit into this plan and could be more readily defended for resource allocations. Addressing the HRH needs outside of this broader framework can be, at best, only a temporary measure." The PDF is available online at:
http://africahealth2010.aed.org/PDF/Using_Human_Resource_for_Health_Data.pdf
Tammy Loverdos
Africa's Health in 2010
Academy for Educational Development
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Suite 900
Washington, DC 20009 USA
http://www.africahealth2010.org/
mailto:tloverdos@aed.org