In the spirit of the UK aid watchbody ICAI's recommendation to ramp up institutional learning within DFID, a welcome initiative for advisers like myself is to support programme design and review in other countries, promoting the sharing of experience and …
As we approach World AIDS Day 2012, on the 1st of December, I have paused to reflect on some of the country visits that I have made this year, which have highlighted the on-going impact of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus …
This is the last of my posts on Malawi, which did prompt me to think a lot about how the response to HIV will be managed and financed over the long term. Two key people I met in their respective …
When I worked in Malawi in the early 1990s, the percentage of people infected with HIV was considerably higher, with 26% of the 15-49 year old age group estimated to be infected in the capital Lilongwe. Concern at the scale …
I got ahead of myself in my last blog and didn't reflect on my first impressions returning to Malawi after 20 years. My arrival at Lilongwe airport, and the drive to the capital highlighted a couple of major changes in Malawi …
I have had a bit of a hiatus in my blogging since leaving Mozambique back in July 2011. I took up my new job as Head of Profession for Health full-time in August 2011, but it has taken me a …
At a time of national austerity and global alarm, sources of pride and international affection for Britain are particularly valuable. Earlier this month ordinary British people took pride in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and this was matched by a global …
...progress firsthand. On a recent trip to Nairobi, I spoke with a group of women about their children. One mother told me, "I want to bring every good thing to...
One of the important side meetings of the International Health Partnership meeting in Geneva last week was between Michel Kazatchkine, the executive director of the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria (GFATM) and Mozambique's Minister of Health, Paulo …
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