Health sector operational planning and budgeting processes in Kenya—“never the twain shall meet”

Health sector operational planning and budgeting processes in Kenya—“never the twain shall meet”

Operational planning is considered an important tool for translating government policies and strategic objectives into day-to-day management activities. However, developing countries suffer from persistent misalignment between policy, planning and budgeting. The Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) was introduced to address this misalignment. Kenya adopted the MTEF in the early 2000s, and i...

Direct arylation and heterogeneous catalysis; ever the twain shall meet

The formation of aryl-aryl bonds and heteroaryl analogues is one of the most important C-C bond forming processes in organic chemistry. Recently, a methodology termed Direct Arylation (DA) has emerged as an attractive alternative to traditional cross-coupling reactions (Suzuki-Miyaura, Stille, Negishi, etc.). A parallel focus of the pharmaceutical and other chemical industries has been on the u...

Tuberculosis and Nanotechnology: Where shall the Twain meet?

Tuberculosis remains among the commonest infectious diseases in the developing world and is a major source of morbidity and mortality. Conventional treatments typically consist of long-term therapy with multiple drugs which often leads to poor patient compliance as well as adverse effects. Poor compliance is in turn a major cause for the development of multidrug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis for...

"Never the twain shall meet": spirituality or psychotherapy?

Aged Care in the Future and Baby Boomers: Shall the Twain Ever Meet?

Background: The ageing of baby boomers may create significant financial strain upon aged and community care in the future. Topic and Objectives: In this literature review, we examine why concern has been expressed about Australia’s ability to cope with the “baby boomer bubble”. We discuss differences between baby boomers and their parents and within the baby boomer cohort, and suggest that thes...