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.

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.

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!

“It takes long time to train a health worker. If we start today maybe we will need 10 years but if we start in two years then it will take us twelve years to address the global heath workers shortfall.” That was Dr. Mubashar Sheikh’s, Executive Director of the Global Health Workforce Alliance, opening remark [...]

To mark Human Rights Day (10 December), Action for Global Health and ActionAid India have launched a new video which shows how communities of a remote area of Orissa in south-eastern India stand up for their right to health. India is a vast country with diverse culture, traditions and government structures, and its growing population already [...]

Yesterday, the AfGH team attended the official UN side event “No Health Workforce. No Health MDGs. Is that acceptable?” When you look at Malawi – where there is one nurse per 4000 inhabitants – the answer is easy: no, it is not. At the event Michael Anderson, from DIFID, talked broadly about all the helpful [...]

On September 16th, Action for Global Health and the Princess of Africa foundation will present at the French Senate, Susan Koch’s documentary “The Motherland Tour: A journey of African Women”. This movie traces the journey of Yvonne Chaka Chaka the South African iconic singer and humanitarian, around Africa. A journey to focus attention on women contributing in their own way to help [...]

In donor countries we can take an aspirin for a headache: a ‘luxury’ most of Africa and swathes of Asia still do not have. It is this persistent and ‘inexplicable’ unfairness which must make the health MDGs a top priority for heads of State at the MDG Summit in September. This is the view of [...]

What do free healthcare clinics in Sierra Leone have in common with iPads? Funnily enough, not a great deal apart from novelty and a mutual ability to attract excited crowds who will queue patiently for hours in the hope of getting close to one. Strictly speaking, universal healthcare in Sierra Leone isn’t actually a new [...]

Watch ‘J’ai envie…’ the new video of the the campaign ‘Non-assistance a Mère en Danger’. Last March, Oxfam France and Action for Global Health France launched the campaign ‘Non-assistance a Mère en Danger’  to raise awareness on the need to reduce maternal mortality in developing countries. Almost 7000 people have already signed the petition which [...]