This is not an academic exercise. Addressing corruption helps save lives, improve access to essential care and protecting those vulnerable to illicit practices.

We continue this work with #TheLancetGlobalHealthCommissiononAnti-CorruptioninHealth | lnkd.in/ebwCQ9YP
& #AccountabilityinAction Malawi

✅ Creating practical tools, for health care managers, for anti-corruption and law enforcement agencies seeking to address corruption in health. These shed light on processes to address different types of corruption and guide decisions,

Key to this work was breaking the silos between different institutions: health systems management and governance structures and the State Anti-Corruption Strategy Committee and ICPC. The civil society organisation representing users are a key partner in this process.

✅ Consistent stakeholder engagement through policy dialogues, media, community initiatives.
They have set up a process of engagement, to co-create pragmatic and politically viable solutions. This involves diverse groups of stakeholders at all levels of the health system and society.

✅ State-of the art research.
In the past 6 years, the group conducted innovative and rigorous research and published extensively in high-quality journals, thus reaching technical audience. This informs effective policies.

✅ Creating an institutional base.
The group has become a focal point for research on health sector corruption and anti-corruption, in Africa and worldwide. They are often approached to share expertise and inform international anti-corruption efforts.
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And one of our first actions was to create a @bsky.app account (of course!)
Follow us @pen-connect.bsky.social if interested in non-communicable disease manage in low and middle income countries
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We will identify quick wins and systemic change for anti-corruption, engage and foster a movement towards real change. Join us in finding viable solutions. #HealthIntegrity #Anti-corruption
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With funding and right to health under threat, the time to act is now. Our Lancet GH Commission on Anti-Corruption approach:
🔍 Evidence-based
🌍 Context-specific
🤝 Civil society-led
⚖️ Changing incentives and structures
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Most anti-corruption efforts fail. Why? They ignore the political and institutional factors underpinning #corruption. To fix corruption we must fix broken health systems and political networks enabling it #PolicyReform
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Corruption is global and not just a low-income country issue —and so must be our response. From COVID-era procurement scandals to opaque pharma lobbying, some richer countries enable corruption via tax havens/lax oversight
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From informal payments to rigged procurement of medicines, corruption erodes trust and harms the most vulnerable most. And it’s local and global—from health clinics to offshore tax havens #HealthEquity #Governance
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Corruption kills - it is linked to higher child and adult mortality, infectious disease, poor mental health, fake medicines. The cost in lives and money is massive #Accountability
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