As anybody who’s worked in the field of global health will know, sometimes it’s difficult to see past the seemingly endless institutional layers. It’s just not so easy to “break out of the box”. But that’s exactly what global health governance must do – we need different actors with different interests to come together to [...]

Unfortunately we didn’t get to be in the room when world leaders pledged their commitments to the UN Secretary General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, but watching it by live feed from the bloggers’ lounge definitely gave it the feeling of a climactic moment to this week in New York. That was because [...]

On Sunday 18th July, the XVIII International AIDS Conference opened in Vienna. The tone of the conference – high expectations and urgent action – was set from the outset when activists declared that ‘Broken promises kill’ and so there must be ‘no retreat’ from the AIDS response and AIDS must be funded now through making [...]