By Josselin Canevet On the 6th of August, health officials from the Ugandan government were denied access to the construction site of the International Specialised Hospital of Uganda, based in Lubowa. The purpose of the visit was to satisfy the Ugandan parliament’s oversight function and ensure public money is being spent as it should. The...
By Tom Wright & Josselin Canevet Earlier this month, Transparency International released the Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) — Africa report, which surveyed more than 47,000 citizens from 35 countries in Africa about their views on and experiences of corruption, including in the health care system. The research revealed that 14 per cent of citizens...
By Josselin Canevet With the conclusion of 72nd World Health Assembly (WHA), governments reiterated their support for transparency in medicines research and development (R&D). Indirectly, at centre stage of the assembly, was clinical trials where governments debated the “transparency clause”. This would mean that companies would have to disclose the actual costs of researching and...
Tom Wright Recently my brilliant colleague Sarah Steingrüber wrote a blog which provided Transparency International Health Initiative answer to the question “How can we solve the health financing problem?” If you follow TI, you probably already know our answer. Just because we may ramble on about it doesn’t make it less true. By any reputable...
Sebastiana Etzo, Eliza Hovey and Tom Wright It has been a busy and exciting week for the TI Health Initiative’s Open Contracting for Health (OC4H) team in Ottawa, where we participated in the Open Government Partnership Summit. Open contracting and procurement featured prominently in the 2019 agenda – the result of years of evidence-generation in...
By Caitlin Allen Today in Geneva, another day of the 72nd World Health Assembly (WHA) is taking place. At this annual 8-day event, the decision-making body of the World Health Organisation (WHO), comprised of representatives from the WHO’s 194 member countries, gather to discuss global health issues. Among these, there is the transparency resolution. Marked...
