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Alison Mhazo

@tichmhazo

LSHTM/LSE Alumnus, Joint Japan World Bank scholar, Health systems and policy research, politics of health, access to medicines , governance, financing

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'While PHI coverage was dichotomized along racial privilege during the colonial period, structural inequalities persist in independent Zimbabwe, albeit with segregation along various forms of socio-economic status '

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'A N-S collaborative HIV pharmacotherapy programme has been under implementation in Zimbabwe since 1998. Sustainability and impact relied on local actors who possess the attributes of policy entrepreneurs and alignment of research with the country's developmental agenda'

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Whilst epidemic securitisation by norm-setting institutions such as WHO is critical to stimulate political action, the transnational diffusion of such charged frames needs to be viewed in relation to how policy makers filter the perceived policy and political implications.

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On declarative commitments for health & the upcoming UN High-Level meeting on Universal Health Coverage : ā€œTime to go to the shops togetherā€ internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-artic… This week's Feat article by Alison Mhazo Alison Mhazo.

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ā€˜After the UNHLM, the terms of progress must urgently shift from expressing commitment to ā€˜doing UHC’. One needs to realize that UHC is not a policy, it is an aspiration, and aspirations are achieved through a process, not wishes. Wishing is most certainly not a strategy’

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Indeed.Check out my IHP blog on declarative commitments for health and the UNHLM on UHC. internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-artic…

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'COVID-19 provides a momentous opportunity under which the image of PHC has been reconstructed in the context of health security. After the UNHLM on UHC, commitment should be evaluated based on tangible deliverables not episodic 'high level endorsements' CSEM (UHC2030 Civil Society Engagement Mechanism) @BeatNCDsZim

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"COVID-19 should be seen as a critical event to stimulate primary health care debates but tangible reforms would be driven by decisive political action to address fundamental PHC bottlenecks that.. disproportionately affect the poor." šŸ“£ New Analysis āž”ļø gh.bmj.com/content/8/7/e0…

"COVID-19 should be seen as a critical event to stimulate primary health care debates but tangible reforms would be driven by decisive political action to address fundamental PHC bottlenecks that.. disproportionately affect the poor."

šŸ“£ New Analysis āž”ļø gh.bmj.com/content/8/7/e0…
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Please read this important essay titled "Come and Learn" in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health by @Zvandiri Youth Advocates, based in #Zimbabwe "As young people... If you want to really hear and understand us—all of us in our diversity—then why don’t you come to our spaces to listen and learn?"

Please read this important essay titled "Come and Learn" in <a href="/LancetChildAdol/">The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health</a> by @Zvandiri Youth Advocates, based in #Zimbabwe

"As young people... If you want to really hear and understand us—all of us in our diversity—then why don’t you come to our spaces to listen and learn?"
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Please read our new PLOS Global Public Health paper: "Tuberculosis commodities supply chain performance in the WHO African region: A scoping review" journals.plos.org/globalpubliche… We summarize evidence for TB PSM performance and offer recommendations Stop TB Partnership KNCV TB Plus The Union Conference

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Do donors strengthen health systems or just support the country to provide basic services? Read our paper: ā€˜We thought supporting was strengthening’: re-examining the role of external assistance for health systems strengthening in Zimbabwe post-COVID-19 doi.org/10.1093/heapol…

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ā€˜External funders should refrain from labelling every form of assistance as health system strengthening as this may lead to unmet expectations amongst both recipient countries and external funders’ Lucy Gilson Ṣẹ̀yįŗ¹ AbĆ­mbį»ĢlĆ” Dina Balabanova HealthPolicyPlanning

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Fascinating study into the dynamics of #healthsystemsstrenthening Often a fine line between supporting health systems inputs/outputs, and long term #HSS - as seen in Zimbabwe

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We thought supporting was strengthening: re-examining the role of external assistance for health systems strengthening in Zimbabwe post-COVID-19 academic.oup.com/heapol/advance…

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ā€˜External funding is fragile & unsustainable, which reinforces the oft-ignored reality that health system strengthening is a sovereign mandate of country-level authorities that falls outside the core interests of donors ’Kalipso Chalkidou Gerard Schmets Joe Kutzin Edwine Barasa

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"The key positive lesson from the pandemic is that Zimbabwe is capable of raising domestic resources to fund HSS. However, there is no guarantee that such funding will be maintained. There is a need, then, to reconsider government’s stewardship for HSS"

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Can COVID-19 be leveraged to promote domestic financing for health systems strengthening in the WHO African Region? NEW publication with Arush Lal Elias Mossialos in @socscimed Health Systems. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmh… Ṣẹ̀yįŗ¹ AbĆ­mbį»ĢlĆ” Dina Balabanova John E. Ataguba Lucy Gilson

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Delighted to see our paper on rethinking the role of external assistance for health on the list of most accessed and one of the editor’s choice in 2024 in HealthPolicyPlanning . The message can’t resonate more than now. Read it here: academic.oup.com/heapol/article…

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Please read our paper with Ṣẹ̀yįŗ¹ AbĆ­mbį»ĢlĆ” 'How policy entrepreneurs solve local health problems in the global South: an exploratory study doi.org/10.1093/heapol… in HealthPolicyPlanning .Understanding local contexts, personal narratives & social acuity Dina Balabanova

Please read our  paper with <a href="/seyeabimbola/">Ṣẹ̀yįŗ¹ AbĆ­mbį»ĢlĆ”</a>  'How policy entrepreneurs solve local health problems in the global South: an exploratory study doi.org/10.1093/heapol…  in <a href="/HPP_LSHTM/">HealthPolicyPlanning</a> .Understanding local contexts, personal narratives &amp;  social acuity <a href="/DinaBalabanova/">Dina Balabanova</a>