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prepared by HCWH based on the GEF concept document, a status report on the pilot testing and demonstrations and the Srishti report are available from HCWH. The WHO pre-qualification procedure will ensure that injection devices meet international product and quality system standards 19
Objective 2: Including infection prevention and control in HIV programmes The working group on safe health care and HIV/AIDS Eric Friedman and Bridget Canniff Fellini Physicians for Human Rights /Global Health through Education, Training and Service (GHETS) A new group to prevent health care-associated HIV infections The Safe Health care and HIV/AIDS Working Group was formed in April 2003. Its members include Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), GHETS and individuals from several USAID contractors, non governmental organizations (NGOs), international organizations, injection technology manufacturers, organized labour as well as individual researchers and consultants. Its mission is working to end the transmission of HIV, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus and other bloodborne pathogens through unsafe health care. The activities of the working group are based upon the principle that respect for human rights must underpin all responses to HIV/AIDS and that the right to safe health care is held by all people, everywhere. Goals of the working group The working group has three main goals: advocacy and resource mobilization, promotion of best practices and information sharing. In the area of advocacy and resource mobilization, the group is encouraging countries to include safe health care in proposals to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and will assist them in doing so; advocating for United States government funding to support safe health care; and advocating for WHO and UNAIDS to develop plans to meet UNGASS safe health care goals and recognize the safe and appropriate use of injections as a core component to the health sector's response to HIV/AIDS. In the area of promotion of best practices, GHETS developed a questionnaire on provider training and public education interventions, and the group endeavours to share best practices and national strategies for safe health care. Finally, in the area of information sharing, the group will bring together diverse stakeholders to share ideas and strategies. There is a need to internationalize working group membership to encourage exchange on a global level and to ensure that the work is consistent with priorities identified by those working to improve health care safety. New partners are welcome. The opportunity of the Global Fund to mobilize resources The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Eric Friedman Physicians for Human Rights, Washington, DC The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) is a multilateral funding mechanism for prevention, care and treatment of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Country coordinating mechanisms (CCMs) identify interventions for which countries seek funding. There is no ceiling on funding requests, so they can include safe health care without eliminating other components. So far, all technically sound proposals have been funded. How safe health care fits into the Global Fund mandate The Fund’s purpose is to manage and disburse additional resources that will make a sustainable and significant contribution to the reduction of infections, illness and death, thereby mitigating the impact caused by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The scope of the Fund includes provision of critical health products, training of personnel and community health workers, and behaviour change and outreach. The Fund will also provide associated support for strengthening comprehensive commodity 20
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