The four-year project, supported by the Global Fund, sees Kimirina working together with the Ministry of Public Health. Together they have achieved transformative results across the country in the first two years of the project. In 2010, malaria was present in 22 of 24 departments in Ecuador. In 2011, the number of reported cases of malaria decreased by 35% and the majority of cases of malaria are concentrated in only 10 departments.

Malaria is a killer. It claims the lives of so many children in Mali, but they die unnecessarily as the disease is easy to prevent.

We welcome the broad consultation organised by the governments of Botswana, Sweden, WHO and UNICEF and congratulate in particular the Task Team for the participatory process[i] and the quality of the consultation. The report reflects well the debates that were held, building on the merits and limits of the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), as [...]

7 April is marked in the calendar as World Health Day, commemorating the founding of World Health Organization back in 1948. To honour this date, Action for Global Health (AfGH) organized a twitter #healthdebate aiming to discuss the prospects for the right to health both in the European and global contexts.

Les 9 et 10 avril, les partenaires du Fonds Mondial de lutte contre le Sida, la Tuberculose et le Paludisme se sont réunis à Bruxelles. Cette rencontre amorce le processus de reconstitution du Fonds pour la période 2014-2016.

The 7th April is World Health Day which marks the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 1948 and invites us to reflect on public health in the world. In many European countries, one can hardly look at the status of healthcare without seeing the effects of austerity measures on the [...]

Since the World Health Organization (WHO) released their report on universal health coverage (UHC) in 2010, 70 countries have asked them for technical assistance to get on the path to achieve UHC. As part of the WHO’s ongoing work to assist countries, they recently co-hosted with the World Bank a ministerial meeting on UHC in Geneva.

This week, Action for Global Health (AfGH) is joining dignitaries such as Amina Mohamed, special adviser to the UN Secretary General, and the Ministers of Health from Sudan, Indonesia and Argentina, amongst others, in a ‘High Level Dialogue’ in Botswana. This important meeting concludes the UN’s consultation on health in the global development framework that follows the expiry of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2015.

Last week, EU leaders came together for a decisive summit to discuss how much they think the EU should spend from 2014-2020, and what they should spend the budget on. It was the latest stage in a process which began in July 2011, when the European Commission released its initial proposal for the EU’s seven year budget, known as the Multiannual Financial Framework.

This Friday, behind closed doors, the EU head of States will come to an agreement on the EU budget for the next seven years. Worryingly, the EU development budget is under major threat. For many, the question is not so much if there will be cuts, but how far-reaching they will be. Protecting EU aid means protecting the health of the world’s poor, and so Action for Global Health is urging EU decision makers to take action to safeguard the development budget.