In it's simplest form, "a Health care system is an organization to deliver health care" Thus a health care system is a shared responsibility between the federal, provincial and territorial governments. It includes: Hospitals, Home based care agencies,Long term care facilities, People (physicians...

BeckyMc - Jan 26, 2006 My name is Becky McDonald and I am the Vice Chairperson of the Board of the Foundation for Hospices in Sub Saharan Africa. I have 28 years of experience in hospice administration in the US and our hospice program has a hospice "twin" or partner in Johannesburg, SA. These...

Feb 02, 2006 Theme: The Global Fund’s Strategic Positioning; The Fund’s unique roles and participants’ opinions on its performance The second and third week’s discussions focused on the Fund’s strategic positioning: it’s unique or different roles in comparison to those played by other organizations funding...

Apr 23, 2006 Message from Ashish Kumar Srivastava , India Regarding potential focus area for improvement & diversification of resources mobilization efforts, voluntary replenishment mechanism, & innovative financing mechanism, selective private sector fundraising is important for sustainable...

Luc Comhaire - Feb 14, 2006 Speaking about TB control. The fund should be doing what it's good at and refrain from doing things where it's not good at. Objectives should not only be result-oriented but also process-oriented (e.g. is the programme able to manage ? If not, something needs to be...