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Harnessing the skills and expertise of health professionals to strengthen healthcare services in some of the poorest countries in the world. International Health Links. Long term voluntary partnerships between UK health institutions and their counterparts in developing countries. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Harnessing the skills and expertise of health professionals
to strengthen healthcare services in some of the poorest
countries in the world
International Health LinksLong term voluntary partnerships between UK health institutions and their counterparts in developing countries.
13th July 2011www.thet.org
Aim to improve health services in developing countries through reciprocal transfer of skills and knowledge between partners.
THET’s role
• Advocacy• Support• Country programmes• International Health
Links Funding Scheme (IHLFS)
• Health Partnership Scheme (HPS)
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Zambia programme
• ‘Strengthening Training and Education of Health Workers in Zambia’
• 2009 - 2012• Approx £1m DFID funding • Support to Links• MMed courses in Pathology,
Psychiatry and Anaesthetics• Biomedical engineering technologists course• Midwifery and nursing capacity
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IHLFS
• Objective: Improve healthcare in developing countries by sharing the skills, knowledge and experience of health workers in the UK
• 3 years (2009 - 2011)
• Funded by DfID and Department of Health
• Jointly managed by THET and British Council
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Health Partnership Scheme
• MDGs 4, 5 and 6
• Multi-country partnerships
• Paired institutional partnerships
• Long-term volunteering
• Health partnership fostering/brokerage
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Cath Butterfield, Programme Coordinator – [email protected] Measures, Zambia Programme Manager – [email protected]
HPS team - [email protected]