Successfull Transitions and how to measure Collaborative Action in Global Health

The French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS) is one of the main independent European Think Tanks on geopolitical and strategic issues.

IRIS, a public-interest association created in 1991, is a French think tank on geopolitical and strategic issues. It is the only international think tank to have been set up as a totally private initiative in an independent approach. IRIS activities can be divided into four fields: research, organisation of events and meetings, publishing and training.

The Global Health think tank aims to make the public more than mere onlookers of the issues that shape the future of global health. Under the leadership of Nathalie Ernoult and Dr. Anne Senequier the think tank’s ambition is to create an open and lively space for reflection where the powers that influence standards and regulatory frameworks in global health, are examined and analysed by its network of experts.

Abstract:

In 2013, due to a shift in aid towards ‘higher impact countries’, Serbia like many other countries was no longer eligible for international health funding. This shift has allowed donors to use semantics in order to stop funding middle-income countries, not facing a widespread epidemic. As a result, reduction in national budgets resulted in the closure of risk reduction and prevention programs, and in 2015, HIV prevalence in Serbia had gone up to a ‘high’ national prevalence ranking. This report examines the need for a cooperative approach and shared responsibility to the fight against global epidemics.