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  The 2012 world health report 'no health without research': the endpoint needs to go beyond publication outputs.

  Zachariah, Rony; Reid, Tony; Ford, Nathan; Van den Bergh, Rafael; Dahmane, Amine; Khogali, Mohammed; Delaunois, Paul; Harries, Anthony D; Operational Research Unit, Medical Department, Operational Centre Brussels, Medecins sans Frontieres, MSF- Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Germany; Medecins sans Frontieres, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, Flemish Institute of Biotechnology, Brussels, Belgium; Department of Microbiology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium;Medecins sans Frontieres, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Operational Centre Brussels, Medecins sans Frontieres- Luxembourg (Direction General), Luxembourg, Germany; International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Centre for Operational Research, Paris, France; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK. (2012-08-16)
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  Bringing care to the community: expanding access to health care in rural Malawi through mobile health clinics

  Geoffroy, E; Harries, A D; Bissell, K; Schell, E; Bvumbwe, A; Tayler-Smith, K; Kizito, W (International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2014-12-21)
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  Keeping health facilities safe: one way of strengthening the interaction between disease-specific programmes and health systems.

  Harries, Anthony D; Zachariah, Rony; Tayler-Smith, Katie; Schouten, Erik J; Chimbwandira, Frank; Van Damme, Wim; El-Sadr, Wafaa M; International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France. adharries@theunion.org (2010-12)

  The debate on the interaction between disease-specific programmes and health system strengthening in the last few years has intensified as experts seek to tease out common ground and find solutions and synergies to bridge the divide. Unfortunately, the debate continues to be largely academic and devoid of specificity, resulting in the issues being irrelevant to health care workers on the ground. Taking the theme 'What would entice HIV- and tuberculosis (TB)-programme managers to sit around the table on a Monday morning with health system experts', this viewpoint focuses on infection control and health facility safety as an important and highly relevant practical topic for both disease-specific programmes and health system strengthening. Our attentions, and the examples and lessons we draw on, are largely aimed at sub-Saharan Africa where the great burden of TB and HIV ⁄ AIDS resides, although the principles we outline would apply to other parts of the world as well. Health care infections, caused for example by poor hand hygiene, inadequate testing of donated blood, unsafe disposal of needles and syringes, poorly sterilized medical and surgical equipment and lack of adequate airborne infection control procedures, are responsible for a considerable burden of illness amongst patients and health care personnel, especially in resource-poor countries. Effective infection control in a district hospital requires that all the components of a health system function well: governance and stewardship, financing,infrastructure, procurement and supply chain management, human resources, health information systems, service delivery and finally supervision. We argue in this article that proper attention to infection control and an emphasis on safe health facilities is a concrete first step towards strengthening the interaction between disease-specific programmes and health systems where it really matters – for patients who are sick and for the health care workforce who provide the care and treatment.