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Annual Planning and Governing Council Meeting 5 – 7 September 2011, Penang, Malaysia
From 5 – 7 September 2011, Health Action International Asia Pacific convened its Annual Planning and Governing Council Meetings in Penang, Malaysia. Fourteen members from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Philippines and Malaysia were present for this three day event organized and hosted by the HAIAP office at the 1926 Heritage Hotel, Penang. Over the first two days 5 and 6 September 2011, key HAIAP members reviewed activities carried out from May 2010 to May 2011 from its new operational office at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. Members present at the meeting were: (i) briefed by the HAIAP Coordinator, on HAIAP’s Strategic Plan for the Future, which had been circulated to the membership in January 2011 and (ii) asked for input into two new projects initiated by the HAIAP office . Members from Sri Lanka, Australia and the South Pacific and Pakistan shared important country reports and developments in health, with the larger group.
On the third day, 7 September 2011, GC members and the HAIAP Advisory Group met to discuss various administrative matters.
A full report of the HAIAP Planning Meeting will be made available soon.
Eulogy for Dr Balasubramaniam
“I stand before this gathering of family, friends and loved ones of Dr Balasubramaniam and I am at a loss for words that will be a fitting tribute to this much loved man.
Since his passing, which I still cannot come to terms with, I have received an outpouring of degrees of emotion from all his associates in Health Action International, ranging from disbelief to great sadness. There have been many personal requests from so many who could not be here today, to share their messages – but they are too many and time is too limited. So I shall pass those messages on to Kamala…”
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Tribute to late Dr Balasubramaniam
In August 2011, The Lancet, ( Volume 378, Issue 9792, Page 660, 20 August 201) published an article as a tribute to the life and work of the late Dr Balasubramaniam, who retired as HAIAP’s Coordinator end December 2010.
Dr Bala was so many things to those of us whose lives he touched – friend, mentor, health activist, researcher, keen intellectual, crusader. His demise on 19 April 0211, is a loss not only to the HAIAP family but to the international health community. The article is published in full below.
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Shila Kaur,
Coordinator, Health Action International
Asia Pacific, Penang, Malaysia
HAIAP Sign Memorandum of Understanding with Universiti Sains, Malaysia
HAIAP Annual General Meeting 2010
The 8th AGM of HAIAP took place on the 29th and 30th of April 2010 in Minuwangoda, Katunayake in Sri Lanka. To read the full report click below:
Asia-Pacific Conference on ‘Health & Medicines Financing’ 2010
HAIAP convened a regional consultation on ‘Health & Medicines Financing” in Minuwangoda, Katunayake in Sri Lanka between the 26th and 28th of April 2010. To read the full report click below:
HAIAP Website Analytics for Year 2009
The following reports provide detailed information and analysis of the worldwide outreach of the HAIAP website. The website is one of HAIAP’s strongest and most effective advocacy and network tools. With the assistance of Google’s clever analytic tools, we are now pleased to disclose the length, breadth and depth of HAIAP’s worldwide outreach.
Please click on the following links to view full reports of website traffic for the period 1st January – 31st December 2009:
HAIAP Annual General Meeting 2009
The 7th AGM of HAIAP took place on the 27th and 28th of August 2009 in Negombo, Sri Lanka.
Asia-Pacific Conference on Undergraduate Medical and Pharmacy Education: Setting Up an Informal Network of Educators for Rational Drug Use (ERDU) 2009
Together with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Kelaniya and WHO country office in Colombo, HAIAP convened a regional consultation on ‘Undergraduate Medical and Pharmacy Education’ in Negombo, Sri Lanka between the 24th and 26th of August 2009.
HAIAP Annual General Meeting 2008
The 6th AGM of HAIAP took place on the 29th and 30th of August 2008 in Bangkok, Thailand.
Asia-Pacific Conference on FTAs and their Impact on Access to Medicines 2008
HAIAP together with the Drug Study Group (DSG), the Health & Development Foundation as well as the Social Pharmacy Research Unit (SPR) and the Health Consumer Protection Program (HCP) of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand hosted the Asia-Pacific Conference on ‘FTAs and their Impact on Access to Medicinal Drugs’ in Bangkok, Thailand between the 25th and 28th of August 2008.
HAIAP Annual General Meeting 2007
The 5th AGM of HAIAP took place on the 30th and 31st of August 2007 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Asia-Pacific Conference on GATS and Public Health 2007
Olle Hansson Award
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