The programme focuses on how cutbacks are affecting two very different frontline services intended to help those most in need. Pat Kenny discusses what they mean for the most vulnerable in our society and those who care for them. Are some of these cuts a false economy?

New York Times - The Doctor's World
30 Years In, We Are Still Learning From AIDS
Published: 30 May, 2011
By Lawrence K. Altman, M.D.

A new international Task Force has been set up to promote 'a fair day's work for a fair day's pay' for workers and to develop organisational capacity in lower income countries. The research which found discrepancies between the salaries earned by local and those earned by expatriate aid workers was instrumental in setting up the task force. According to the findings from a jointly funded project by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Department for International Development (DFID) an expatriate aid worker will be paid on average four times more (and sometimes much more) than a local employee doing a similar job, with local salaries pushing workers below the poverty line.

Livinghealth Clinic were worthy recipients recently of the Biomnis Healthcare Innovation Award in the category for Primary Care Centres initiatives. Livinghealth Clinic was chosen from seven finalists. The Biomnis Healthcare Innovation Awards endeavours to recognise and merit innovation in the provision of Healthcare. This is the fourth year of these awards which have been established to broaden awareness of the need to constantly improve standards of care and patient safety in Irish Healthcare. This award is real recognition of what the Living Health Clinic has achieved since opening in November 2008.

Damien chat to Eamon Delaney, Freelance Journalist, and Justin Kilcullen, Director of Trocaire about the cost of overseas aid from Ireland and future of our ongoing aid commitment.

Message from the IFGH Chair

"I am pleased to inform you that Nadine Ferris France has been recruited to the position of Operations Director for the Irish Forum for Global Health"