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E-DRUG: Course: Rational Medicine Management-focus HIV, TB, Malaria -------------------------------------------------------------- [To respond DO NOT CLICK REPLY. Respond to Karin Wiedenmayer \ ] Dear colleagues, we are pleased to announce the sixth international training course on: RATIONAL MEDICINE MANAGEMENT- A FOCUS ON HIV/AIDS, TB AND MALARIA 28 August – 9 September 2006 Ifakara, Tanzania CONTENTS OVERVIEW Health is an intrinsic human right as well as a central input to poverty reduction and socioeconomic development. Cost-effective interventions including medicines for controlling major diseases exist, but a lack of money for health and a range of system constraints hamper efforts to expand health services to the poor. From penicillin to insulin, antiseptics to antiretrovirals, science including medicines has led to dramatic improvements in health worldwide. Yet the main diseases of poverty such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis continue to claim innumerable lives in the developing world. Medicines are an essential and cost-effective tool of health care and an important element of health systems. The number and type of medicines on the world market is constantly increasing, while financial resources for health care services in general remain limited or decrease. Today, for millions of people worldwide essential medicines remain unavailable and unaffordable. Irrational medicine use is a global public health problem. Counterfeit and poor quality medicines are an additional barrier to equitable access to medicines. Millions of adults and children die each year from treatable and preventable diseases. Reducing illness and premature mortality contributes to poverty reduction. It is about getting evidence-based and effective control interventions such as medicines to the people who need them, whether by reducing their costs, promoting research and development, improving their distribution, increasing their efficacy and acceptability, or slowing down the development of antimicrobial resistance. But, today these medicines don’t reach all who need them, and there is a need to develop adequate strategies that ensure better access. Rational medicine policy and management is one approach to tackle these problems and is critically important in view of constrained health budgets to achieve efficiency, equity and quality of health care in pluralistic health systems. OBJECTIVES To enable health professionals to understand and apply the concepts and principles of essential medicines and rational medicine management with a focus on the diseases of poverty HIV/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis, to recognise the need for a national and international medicine policy environment, to improve knowledge and skills and to gain practical field experience for rational medicine management within different health system contexts. COURSE TOPICS • Historic milestones and current global medicine situation in different health care systems • Concept of essential medicines and its relevance in primary health care • Concept and principles of rational medicine management in pluralistic and reforming health systems • Roles of different stakeholders including health workers, traditional healers, research organisations and the pharmaceutical industry • The international context, global treaties and national medicine policy • Treatment guidelines, essential medicine lists and personal medicine lists • Patterns of medicine use, strategies for the promotion of rational medicine use, community medicine use • Antimicrobial resistance and approaches for containment • Medicine quality and quality assurance • Rational management of HIV/Aids, malaria and tuberculosis related treatment within their respective global initiatives • Framework and components of a medicine supply system including procurement and distribution • Elements of medicine costs, affordability and financing options • Critical medicine information management TARGET GROUP Health professionals and managers with experience (at least two years) in the health sector and in the pharmaceutical sector. DURATION 2 weeks (90 hours student investment time). Equivalent to 3 ECTS points towards the TropEd European Master in International Health. COURSE FORMAT The course language is English. The course combines lectures, in-depth discussions of case studies, short presentations, small group exercises and field visits. The course is highly participatory and participants will be exposed to a wide range of international experiences and materials. APPLICATION PROCEDURE Please fill in the application form carefully and include all required documents. Application deadline: 15 June 2006 COURSE FEE The total course fee is CHF 1’500.- (Swiss Francs) and must be paid 8 weeks before the start of the course. This sum includes the registration fee (CHF 100.-) which is due at the moment of acceptance. If a participant does not attend the course, the registration fee cannot be reimbursed. If cancellation is less than 4 weeks before beginning of the course an additional fee of CHF 500.- will be charged. Cost for international flights and accommodation/full board in Ifakara must be added. Details on the prices can be given on request There are only very limited scholarships available for this course. LOCATION Ifakara Training Centre Ifakara, Tanzania COURSE FACULTY The course is facilitated by international and national experts. The academic panel will include a number of highly experienced professionals from WHO, MEDUNSA (Limpopo), Phasuma, Nuffield (Leeds), STI, Tanzanian MOH, MSH and IHRDC. COURSE COORDINATORS Dr. Karin Wiedenmayer (STI) www.sti.ch Dr. Reinhard Huss (Nuffield) www.leeds.ac.uk/hsphr/ihd CONTACT ADDRESS Swiss Tropical Institute Course Secretariat Socinstrasse 57 P.O Box CH - 4002 Basel / Switzerland Tel.: + 41 61 284 82 80 Fax: + 41 61 284 81 06 E-mail: courses-sti@unibas.ch [http://www.sti.ch](http://www.sti.ch) THE SWISS TROPICAL INSTITUTE The Swiss Tropical Institute (STI) was founded in 1943. The STI offers an interdisciplinary approach to research, teaching and services in the field of International Health. The aim of the STI is to contribute to the improvement of the health of populations internationally and nationally through excellence in research, services and teaching and training. Activities of the Institute in the framework of its national and international mandates have led to its world-wide recognition in the field of International Health. The STI has significant expertise in the pharmaceutical sector with teaching and training, research, clinical trials, assessments and implementation verification and international development cooperation. The unit „Teaching and Training“ offers postgraduate courses in various topics for health staff. TROPED A collaborative network of 27 Tropical Institutes and related institutions in 13 different countries in Europe offers a joint modular Master‘s Curriculum in International Health (MIH). The Diploma Course ‘Health Care and Management in Tropical Countries – HCMTC’ at STI is equivalent to the core course for this degree. Candidates for the Master‘s degree will be required to take further advanced modules in at least 2 other network-institutions and to carry out a master thesis according to MIH requirements. The whole curriculum corresponds to one year full time work. The modular structure allows the studies to be spread over 5 years. For further information: www.troped.org Karin Wiedenmayer, MSc, PharmD Swiss Tropical Institute Swiss Center for International Health Socinstrasse 57 4002 Basel Switzerland T +41 61 284 81 26 F +41 61 271 86 54 Karin Wiedenmayer \