The Lancet
Apr 09, 2011  Volume 377  Number 9773  Pages 1211 – 1288
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

Comment
A cytomegalovirus vaccine tames the troll of transplantation
Mark R Schleiss

Health-systems strengthening: current and future activities
Jesper Sundewall, R Chad Swanson, Arvind Betigeri, David Sanders, Téa E Collins, George Shakarishvili, Ruairi Brugha

There is strong consensus in the global health community, among donors, recipient countries, and policy makers, about the need for health-system strengthening in low-income and middle-income countries.1,2 Traditional donors and new disease-specific aid initiatives, such as the GAVI Alliance, the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, are directly or indirectly funding health-system strengthening. The need for greater capacity to produce a better evidence-base for health-system strengthening has resulted in the first global symposium on health-systems research, to be held in Montreux, Switzerland, in November, 2010.