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THET welcomes DFID’s announcement of a new Health Systems Partnership Fund

London, 7 June 2010 – THET welcomes DFID’s announcement of a new £5 million
Health Systems PartnershipFund which will enable more British health professionals to share their skills with midwives, nurses and doctors in developing countries through teaching, training and practical assistance. Read more…

New Global Health Partnership Strengthens Work in Somaliland

London, 4 February 2010 – King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre formally launched a new global health partnership with the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET) on 4 February 2010. Renewing an existing 10 year partnership between THET and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, (one of the founding members of King’s Health Partners) this new partnership will allow King’s Health Partners and THET to take steps to develop further their shared agenda and create a new centre of activity within King’s Health Partners. Read more…

Looking through the keyhole at Hexham’s life-saving global Health Links

Hexham, 17 December 2009 – International Development Minister Mike Foster today got a closer look at how medical staff at Hexham General Hospital are using unique and pioneering technology to help save lives in one of the world’s poorest countries. Surgeons from Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are making use of ground-breaking video technology to provide desperately needed training to medical staff at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Tanzania. Read more…

Development Minister sees how East London medical staff are helping people in Uganda

London, 10 November 2009 – Minister for International Development, Mike Foster visited East London NHS Foundation Trust today to see how their ‘Link’ with Butabika hospital in Uganda is helping medical staff learn new skills that will improve basic medical care. Uganda has suffered a long history of political violence. In Northern Uganda the 21 year insurgency by the Lord’s Resistance Army has lead to the displacement of up to 1.3 million people and has been characterised by extreme brutality, sexual violence against women, and the use of child soldiers. Read more…

THET and British Council launch new International Health Links Funding Scheme: A ground-breaking initiative to strengthen health systems in developing countries

London, 28 September 2009 - THET, a UK based international health charity, and the British Council, the UK’s international body for cultural relations, are launching a pioneering funding scheme supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Department of Health. The scheme is aimed at strengthening partnerships, or ‘Links’, between UK health institutions and their counterparts in developing countries. Read more…

THET announces new Chief Executive: Pia MacRae joins THET team as new Chief Executive

London, 29 June 2009 - THET, the UK based health charity committed to improving essential health services in developing countries, has just named Pia MacRae as the new Chief Executive. Pia joins THET after working with BP for more than a decade in the External Affairs division and will step into her new role at the end of June. Read more…