Meeting Presentations, Recommendations & communiqué


Global Health – Networking for Better Outcomes
Malta, November 2005

Presented by The Commonwealth Dental Association, The Commonwealth Nurses Federation, The Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association and The Commonwealth HIV/AIDS Action Group/Para 55 at the The Mediterranean Conference Centre Valletta, Malta Tuesday 22 November 2005 at the 2005 Commonwealth People’s Forum


Session 1 – HIV/AIDS:
Access to Treatment and Care Access to Treatment and Care
Dr Alice Welbourn Chair, Board of Trustees, The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS
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Palliative Care
Dr Richard Scheffer Chair, Advocacy Committee, UK Forum for Hospice and Palliative Care Worldwide
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Session 2 – Migration of Health Workers:
A Developing World Perspective
Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa President, Commonwealth Medical Association Director, General Ministry of Health, Ghana
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A Developed World Perspective
Professor Richard Cooper Professor of Medicine, Leonard Davis Institute, University of Pennsylvania, USA
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Main recommendations Governments are urged to work with civil society to: a) Provide equitable access to appropriate treatment and care for people living with HIV/AIDS, especially women and children, and to palliative care for the terminally ill;b) Attain self-sufficiency in their healthcare workforces;c) Ensure that strategies are developed for recruiting, training and retaining healthcare workers.

Communiqué
> Communiqué of the 2005 Commonwealth People’s Forum
On the occasion of a dialogue with Commonwealth Foreign Ministers
Malta, 26 November 2005