4104.0 Best practices: Strengthening the public sector and integrating care to improve health in low-income countries

Tuesday, November 9, 2010: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
Focus will be on human and institutional recovery of the health sector in countries where disasters have taken place as well as approaches to medical training.
Session Objectives: * Evaluate the circumstances involved in repairing the health sector after man-made disasters (such as civil wars) and natural disasters. * Describe some of the design considerations that must go into the development of medical outpatient and training centers.
Organizer:
Jirair Ratevosian, MPH
Moderator:
Jirair Ratevosian, MPH

10:30am
Development of A Package for Integration of PMTCT Into Routine MCH Services in South Africa
Debra Jackson, RN MPH DSc, Sarah Rohde, Tanya Doherty, MPH PhD, Vundli Ramokolo, Ameena Goga, MBCHB, Selamawit Woldesenbet, MPH and Wesley Solomon, MPH
     
10:48am
Next generation of PEPFAR supports an Ethiopian University and a US University partnership to design a state-of-the-art outpatient care and teaching facility in Gondar, Ethiopia
Scott Barnhart, MD, MPH, Christine Kiefer, BArch, MID, Getechew Feleke, MD and Ann Downer, EdD, MS
  
11:06am
Picking up the pieces: Implementing pMTCT and strengthening public sector health systems in a post-conflict setting – the case of Bouake, Cote d'Ivoire
Julia Robinson, MPH MSW, Ahoua Kone, JD, MPH and Albert Bakor, MBBS, MPH
     
11:24am
Integrating Comprehensive HIV Care into Routine Maternal Health Services Improves Access and Quality
Wendy Johnson, MD, MPH, Mark A. Micek, MD, MPH, Pablo Montoya, MD, MPH, Florencia Floriano, Barrot Lambdin, MPH, James Pfeiffer, PhD, MPH, Stephen Gloyd, MD, MPH and Rachel Chapman, PhD
     
11:42am
Strengthening the Role of Nursing in the Public Sector through Education and Mentorship: Haiti
Donna Barry, NP MPH
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: International Health
Endorsed by: Social Work

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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