The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, together with Action for Global Health and the European Action ‘Migration of Health Professionals between Latin America and Europe: Analysis and Generation of Shared Development – MPDC’, organised a cross European seminar on the implementation of the WHO Code on the international recruitment of health workers which brought together representatives from the Ministries of Health and Foreign Affairs from different Europeans countries.

The European Court of Auditors has launched  a report on General Budget Support to ACP, Latin America and Asian countries (16th February). The recommendations of the report highlight very similar themes to those included in Action for Global Health’s submission to the Commission’s online consultation on GBS last year. Whilst the Court’s report acknowledges the [...]

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 [...]

European Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs welcomes CONCORD Aidwatch Report 2010 released today (10th June). The report entitled “More and Better EU aid can score Millennium Development Goals” features an EU-wide assessment of progress on aid quantity and quality, and a country-by-country report on how each Member State is progressing towards their 2010 individual intermediate [...]

by Marta Monteso Cullell, AfGH project co-ordinator The EC recently released a new communication calling for a stronger EU response to global health challenges. It quite rightly deals with ill health as a multi-sector problem, based on poverty, inequality and human rights violations- representing a step in the right direction towards reaching universal access to [...]