Public, Private & Faith-based Partnershipsin Papua New Guinea

 

How to provide innovative, needs-based programs to support HIVhealth care capacity building in collaboration with a range of partners

Artwork by: Steve Estvanik

Establishing the CollaborationFiona Palmer

on behalf of the CHPNG

A Collaboration for Health in PNGA review of a unique approach to supporting in-country health service

delivery through a public, private and faith based partnership.

CHPNG - committed to the health of people in PNG for over 10 years

• The CHPNG is a philanthropic initiative of a consortium of Australian pharmaceutical companies committed to improving the health and well being of Papua New Guineans

• Working within public private partnerships for health• Informal Consortium held in 2001 led to formation of CHPNG in

2003

Recognising the issues

2000: Backdrop

2001: Informal Consortium

2002:Familiarisation

2003: Formation of

CHPNG

Range of prominent public health issues around HIV. Concern on expanding epidemic in PNG.

Group of like-minded Australian companies wanting to address the HIV epidemic. International roundtable.

PNG Mission: • Build partners

and identify needs

• PNG Catholic Health Service

Three Initiatives to start:1. Establish HIV day

care centres2. Strengthen

capacity of HIV healthcare workers

3. Support the labour ward in Port Moresby.

Clear aims of the Consortium Agreement create focus

• Engage and learn from others in the region

• Understand the factors that affect access to care

• Encourage cooperation among all health providers

• Help develop healthcare capacities and systems

• Link prevention, de-stigmatisation and legal protection

Creating sustainable capacity

• Ensure discrete, measurable projects that can be replicated and are independently audited to ensure best outcomes

• Monitor local environment to adapt as needed• Objectives aligned with partners in Australia &

PNG• CHPNG member company active involvement

“Let us not build walls in the face of this epidemic and say this is my territory. Let us build bridges and work together”

Hon Dame Carol Kidu, CBE MP

www.chpng.com.au