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Developing sustainable international partnerships in child health and paediatric care
A Nicoll, E Carter, B Golden, J Robson, D Southall, T WilliamsInternational Task
Force on Children Affected by War and Absolute Poverty of the Royal
College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), UK
Correspondence to: Dr A Nicoll, PHLS, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5EQ, UK anicoll@phls.org.uk
Accepted 18 July
2000
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One of the UK government's policy initiatives when taking
office in 1997 concerned international development. This highlighted an
intention to expand partnerships between institutions in the UK and
poorer countries; specifically "to work closely with other donors and
development agencies to build partnerships with developing countries".1 The prime policy goal was to eliminate
poverty and encourage economic growth that benefits the poor. Since
children are a group most vulnerable to poverty, a specific intention
was to support international efforts to "enhance children's
well-being including through the provision of effective and sustainable
health services".1 This approach now features in
documents from the UK's Department for International Development
(DFID) with all four of its International Development Targets relating
to child and maternal health (table
1).2
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UK institutions have already established linkages or partnerships
centring on child health or paediatric care with counterparts in
developing or resource poor countries. These involve National Health
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