HAI receives grant from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation for primary health care
The Chronicle of Philanthropy highlights a new grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to support primary health care in sub-Saharan Africa ("Doris Duke Fund Awards Nearly $44-Million for African Health Care" by Ian Wilhelm). Health Alliance International is one of four organizations awarded this grant.
"While foundations have long sought to bolster global health, they have tended to focus their efforts on specific diseases like malaria or tuberculosis. Privately, fund raisers at major health charities complain that grant makers are too targeted with their efforts and ignore widespread health issues.
"Peter Ndumbe, dean of health sciences at the University of Buea, in Cameroon, said that Doris Duke's approach indicates a shift in thinking.
"'What makes these partnerships so potentially powerful is that they are designed to save lives by strengthening the very systems that are needed to support the growing number of vertical programs for particular diseases like AIDS and malaria,' said Dr. Ndumbe, who sits on the panel of researchers that is advising the Doris Duke foundation with its Africa program."
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