AFGH – Blog

This year Spain’s ODA percentage will be half of what was committed in 2009. Action for Global Health in Spain is trying to dispel the gloomy mood this is creating. Please help the movement against cuts grow!

German Government announces it will prepare a report for the WHO looking into its role in health worker migration.

Today is the 62nd World Health Day. There is a lot to celebrate in terms of some of the excellent work being done by all actors in the health sector. Results are encouraging, but we are still a long way from reaching the health Millennium Development Goals.

It is imperative that health and education commitments are made now so that people in all countries have the best chance at living a life free from poverty and with access to the basic human rights of education and health.

Across the globe, the women’s rights movement has been one of the most socially, economically and politically transformative in history, and yet gender remains the most pervasive and accepted reason for discrimination. After 101 years of International Women’s Day, here are a few reflections that are pertinent now.

As the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development approaches, Action for Global Health wants to highlight the critical importance of health in this debate and support the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) position and the Brazilian proposal[1] to include health in the  Rio+20 outcome document. Health bridges the two fields of environmental protection and human rights [...]

I am suffering from what I hope is a rare condition. It is post-conference blues and it is strange that I should be suffering from this condition given that I have not been to that many international conferences. Symptoms of this condition alternate between euphoria (thinking of what could be) and depression (seeing what really is). Let me tell you more.

An opportune moment to look back at the year gone by and reflect on the challenges that lie ahead for organisations working to improve global health.

The next WHO Executive Board meeting will be key for the future of global health as it will set a foundation for global commitments against poverty and health inequities that will be made after 2015.

At the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, health was mentioned extensively as a success story for aid effectiveness implementation in plenary speeches and discussions. However, despite development partners recognising the urgency of reaching the MDGs, the health sector has not been mentioned in the Civil Society Forum and Busan High Level Forum outcome documents. This blog reflects on the highlights and mixed outcomes for global health from HLF4.