Neil Squires
Human Development Adviser, Mozambique
I am the Human Development Adviser for DFID Mozambique, covering health, education and HIV/AIDS. I arrived in Maputo in August 2007, from 3 years with the EC in Brussels and before that DFID in Bangladesh. As an ex district health officer in Malawi in the early 1990’s this return to Africa feels a bit like coming home.
Raising money to improve health
Posted 29 June 2009
I have been eagerly awaiting this web link to the report of the Taskforce on Innovative International Financing for Health Systems.
One of the major outcomes of the UN Millennium Development Goal Call to Action, high level event held in New York in September 2008, was the announcement by Gordon Brown of the Taskforce on Innovative [...]
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