Improving the Quality of Health Services for the Haitian People

About the Author: Ambassador Eric Goosby serves as U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator.

Last week, I was proud to take part in a joint mission to Haiti with leaders from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Global Fund), including Mark Edington, its Head of Country Programs. We signed a Partnership Framework to support Haiti’s Health Strategy, which you can read about in this post. We met with government leadership and reviewed the remarkable progress made over the last two years towards the reconstruction and improvement of the Haitian health system through PEPFAR- and Global Fund-supported activities.

We met with Haiti’s First Lady, Sophia Martelly, who provides critical leadership to the Government of Haiti’s health response through Haiti’s Country Coordinating Mechanism (CCM) for engagement with the Global Fund. The CCM model draws on the active…more »

(Source: blogs.state.gov)