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Delivering better health services needs longer term, more predictable financing

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Earlier today I met with Mauricio Cysne, the Country Representative of UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS) here in Mozambique. Mauricio is a dynamic person, full of energy and a great networker. We discussed what to do to try to …

Here comes the rain....

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The 'short rains' have started and are here in force. As my first time living somewhere tropical, they are fascinating to me. Not the grey drizzle you get in the UK, but 'proper rain', 'really-coming-down-hard' rain, 'if-you-go-out-in-it-for-two-minutes-you-are-soaked-through' rain. This is …

Remembering the dead

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Of all the routine events of life here in Helmand, there’s one thing I’ll never get used to: the all too frequent repatriation services, or ‘ramp ceremonies’, for fallen soldiers. 125 British soldiers have now died in Afghanistan.  While the …