5 October 2005
This issue of ATDF Journal on Health looks at the role governments, the pharmaceutical industry and multilateral organizations play in healthcare provision, and presents the current health status, initiatives and challenges in Africa and offers some alternative policy options.
Inside this issue
The Right to Health: A Duty For Whom?
Prof. Dr. Klaus M. Leisinger, Novartis
Respiratory Conditions among Workers in a Cotton Spinning Mill in Zambia
Siziya S, Munalula B
Expanding Healthcare in Africa: Current Status and possible Options
Victor Konde, ATDF
Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics in Africa
Clement B. Ndongmo
African Health Policies and Technology Transfer within The WTO
Teisha Öberg, ICTSD
HIV/AIDS and Food and Nutrition Security: What Is Known and What can be Done?
Stuart Gillespie, IFPRI
ATDF News:
Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture to support the development of ATDF Business Plan
Health News: A focus on Malaria in the News
Special feature: World Investment Report 2005
Editors for this Issue:
Editor-in Chief: Victor Konde
Design and content Editor: Constantine Bartel
Contributing Editors:
Aerni Philipp, Marion Motari, Djikeng Appolinaire, Dele Young, Roger Pfister, Anna Atherton-Griggs and Teisha Öberg, and two editors that wish to remain anonymous.
Contributing Photographer: Bathsheba Okwenje
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