Transforming South–South Technical Support to Fight Noncommunicable Diseases
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Shakow, Aaron D.A.
Bukhman, Gene
Adebona, Olumuyiwa
Greene, Jeremy
de Dieu Ngirabega, Jean
Binagwaho, Agnes
Date Issued
April 2012
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Global Heart
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Elsevier
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Shakow, Aaron D.A., Gene Bukhman, Olumuyiwa Adebona, Jeremy Greene, Jean de Dieu Ngirabega, and Agnès Binagwaho. “Transforming South–South Technical Support to Fight Noncommunicable Diseases.” Global Heart 7, no. 1 (March 2012): 35–45. © 2012 World Heart Federation (Geneva)
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At the UN High-Level Meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCD) in September 2011, each member state was challenged to create a multisectoral national policy and plan for the prevention and control of non-communicable disease by 2013. Few low-income countries, however, currently have such plans. Their governments are likely to turn for assistance in drafting and implementation to multilateral agencies and Contract Technical Support Organizations recommended by development partners. Yet because many NCD seen in the lowest-income countries differ significantly from those prevalent elsewhere, existing providers of external technical support may lack the necessary experience to support strategic planning for NCD interventions in these settings. This article reviews currently available mechanisms of technical support for health sector planning. It places them in the broader historical context of post- World War II international development assistance and the more recent campaigns for horizontal “South-South” cooperation and aid effectiveness. It proposes bilateral technical assistance by low income-countries themselves as the natural evolution of development assistance in health. Such programs, it argues, may be able to improve the quality of technical support to low-income countries for strategic planning in the NCD area while directing resources to the regions where they are most needed.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. History Section
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gheart.2012.01.009
