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Launch of The International Health Partnership
5 September 2007
Photo Gallery (All images courtesy of Richard Lewis/Crown Copyright)
A new international partnership was launched today that will help build national health systems in some of the poorest countries in the world. It will mean healthier people, living longer lives.
Seven ‘first wave’ countries in Africa and Asia today announced that they would join the new International Health Partnership, which is supported by donor governments and agencies representing half of the world’s aid spending on health, which totals $14 billion.
The seven in the first wave are Burundi, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nepal and Zambia. These countries have agreed that they would benefit from closer donor and international partner coordination as they work to improve the health of their people.
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| UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown with representatives from first wave countries and signatories to the International Health Partnership |
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| Gordon Brown; Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway; Dr Tedros Adhanom, Ethiopia's Health Minister; Secretary of State for International Development Douglas Alexander |
Gordon Brown speaks at the IHP launch |
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Karen Jennings, Head of Health, UNISON, with Douglas Alexander |
Jens Stoltenberg; Gordon Brown; Douglas Alexander |
First wave countries
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NepalFrom left to right: Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway; Girirajmani Pokharel, Nepal's Health Minister; Gordon Brown; Dr Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organisation |
CambodiaWith His Excellency Nuth Sokhom, Minister of Health, Cambodia |
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EthiopiaWith Dr Tedros Adhanom, Ethiopia's Health Minister |
KenyaWith Hon. Charity Ngilu, Kenyan Minister of Health |
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MozambiqueWith Dr Paulo Ivo Garrido, Mozambique's Minister of Health |
BurundiWith Dr Rose Gahiru, Burundi's Minister of Health |
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ZambiaWith Brian Chituwo, Zambia's Health Minister |