At the European Development Days in Brussels, Action for Global Health teamed up with Martha Kwataine to discuss what more needs to be done if the EU and partner countries are to make the right to health a reality for all. The European Development Days (EDDs), which took place in Brussels on 6-7 December, saw [...]

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 [...]

At the UN MDG review summit in September, Action for Global Health teamed up with Martha Kwataine, executive director of the Malawi Health Equity Network. A passionate and vivacious advocate, it was only a matter of time before we joined forces with her again. Now Martha – our dynamic health hero - is back, braving the biting [...]

During a recent work trip to Nairobi I visited ActionAid’s local partner WOFAK – Women fighting AIDS in Kenya. Spending the day there, I participated in one of their groups for women and men living with HIV and listened to some of their stories.