Perhaps I could just add something on this again. I work with public health associations in capacity-building for them and in governance, not only their governance, but the whole issue you're talking about of how they reach out to the government structures and talk to them. One of the things that has been very successful is that some of the public health associations hold legislative assemblies during their annual conferences in their own countries. They draw in a lot of parliamentarians around issues of immunization, HIV, whatever. It's quite exciting to see them get engaged with the parliamentarians around health issues. Certain parliamentarians representing a region have said to them, “Can you give us data on your region? We want to go back and actually see what's happening.” Well, that's a problem because of what we were just talking about—civil registrations, etc. The data isn't necessarily there. But some of the public health associations have been working to create the data so that these engaged parliamentarians can go back and be engaged as champions around health, and they can help within parliament as well.
On April 23rd, 2015. See this statement in context.