David Cameron has been appointed co-chair of a United Nations panel  responsible for leading discussions on developing a successor to the MDGs. Joining Cameron on this panel are the President Susilo Mambang Yudhuyono of Indonesia and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia. Cameron’s appointment almost certainly comes as reward for the UK Government’s sustained commitment [...]

I’ve just returned from the 65th World Health Assembly where alongside my colleagues from Action for Global Health we launched a civil society Call to Action on Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Conferences of this scale and scope often leave me with mixed emotions. In some ways they are tiring affairs, with constant reminders of people’s differences and difficulties, but [...]

At Wednesday’s “growth summit” EU leaders must go on record and commit to allocate a proportion of a Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) for global development. An EU FTT which fails to fund global priorities, such as global health needs, would be unacceptable. This and last week feature highly important global events: the launch of a [...]

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!