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Where Are We?

Where Are We?. New Director Collaborating with 25 NFs/ regional entities Budget $17m + $3m core NFs Staff in NY/Buda = 30 Highly sought after by other Network programs Institutional commitment to NPHP. Mission. Promoting health policies based on social inclusion,

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Where Are We?

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  1. Where Are We? • New Director • Collaborating with 25 NFs/ regional entities • Budget $17m + $3m core NFs • Staff in NY/Buda = 30 • Highly sought after by other Network programs • Institutional commitment to NPHP

  2. Mission Promoting health policies based on social inclusion, human rights, justice, and scientific evidence

  3. Objectives • Promoting the participation and interests of socially marginalized groups in public health policy • Fostering greater government accountability and transparency through civil society monitoring and advocacy

  4. Emphasis on HIV and AIDS • Needle exchange for IDUs • Access of sex workers to health services • Palliative care for AIDS patients • HIV and HIV/TB monitoring • Law clinics for PLWA • Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria

  5. But also… • Roma health • Palliative care for all • TB monitoring • Substitution therapies

  6. Addressing the health needsof marginalized populations • What is a marginalized population? • Why is this important? • Which programs? • IHRD • SHARP • Palliative care • Roma Health • HIV/AIDs grants (Africa,global)

  7. Ensuring accountability through civil society leadership and monitoring efforts • How do we do this? • Why important? • Which programs? • PHW • Law and Health • Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and malaria • Health Media • Seminars and Leadership Development

  8. WHERE? Through SFN and other partners: in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Macedonia, Slovakia, Ukraine, Moldova, Russia, Central Asia, Caucasus, sub-Saharan Africa, Thailand and Indonesia, China, and Iran.

  9. Cooperation • NFs and “spin-offs” • Other outside partners • Other OSI Network programs • OSI policy offices in London, Brussels, and Washington, D.C.

  10. New Developments • Projects starting/accelerating • Law and Health • SHARP • Global Fund on HIV, TB and malaria • Projects winding down • Tobacco control • Workforce Development

  11. Public Health Watch Report on US domestic HIV/AIDS policy TB researcher from Nigeria to speak at roundtable at UN HIV high-level review Grant competition for community-led monitoring and advocacy on TB-HIV Harm Reduction Global Fund work in Russia and Ukraine Advocacy on methadone and buprenorphine at WHO Counter US efforts to remove needle exchange from UNAIDS HIV prevention plan Some Program Highlights

  12. Health Media Chinese journalist to write book to give AIDS a human face in China Center for Independent Journalism in Romania (Roma Health Project) –results of investigative journalism competition Palliative Care Two new funding programs: Pain Policy Fellowship and Program on palliative care in cancer hospitals African regional drug policy conference Development of a global cancer control program to include palliative care Program Highlights… cont’

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