User talk:Mercy 254

Public health programs aims at providing free access to health care especially to the less fortunate in the society through organized efforts. The workforce is mostly comprised of health visitors, nurses, environmental health professionals, health practitioners, and so much more and collectively are known as practitioners, CMO’ 2001. This paper aims at establishing financial sources for public health program in south east Africa. One of the sources of setting up a public health programs is through charitable donations and grants. Charitable work comes in three forms that is non-government organizations, multilateral assistance, and bilateral assistance. With the high levels of people living with HIV\AIDS in south east Africa, the concerns are very high and this has lit the red light across the globe and well-wishers are more than willing to take part in the eradication of the menace. Other forms include gifts, fellowships, cooperative agreements, and contracts. Grants mostly come from cooperation, foundations, and government agencies. Cooperative agreements occurs when the grantee and the government share responsibility in the management of the program. Some of the funding that can be depended on the fight of HIV in south east Africa include from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, IFC a member of the world bank group, the German development finance institution, the African development bank. Back in 2009 June 4th all these institutions created a new equity fund that is private and aims at investing in the health sector of Africans. These would be a perfect source as the institutions goals include helping low income Africans to easily gain affordable health services that is also of high standards. South east Africa is majorly populated by poor people and the fund is measured by its ability in cultivating programs serving the less fortunate in the society hence this matches the location of a public health program in the area meaning there will be a continued flow of funding. A couple of professionals are necessary in the success of the health program and they include nurses, environmental health practitioners, health visitors, surgical practitioners, rehabilitation care practitioners, public health practitioners, maternal and newborn health practitioners, mental health practitioners among others. As the volunteer focused on saving the lives of fellow countrymen, it is critical that I respect the role of every profession for the larger good in the provision of their services. The main role as the founder of the program includes planning and organizing a d making sure the whole process becomes effective.