One year ago, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launched the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health. So one year on, what’s been done and what still has to be done? According to the secretary general, we are delivering “on all fronts”, and figures published just hours before the Every Woman Every Child event to mark the anniversary seem to back up his belief.

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 Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Bangkok has now closed. Grand statements on progress made to the Kampala Declaration and the efforts to do more have been made. Civil society has demanded more. But in large part this was a meeting of experts within a sector talking to themselves. Debating minor [...]

What do we want, how do we get it and how can we work jointly were the three most repeated questions at the high-level breakfast I attended at the Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, together with a group of MEPs, early last Friday morning (28th January). This event aimed to identify how to [...]

Action for Global Health’s latest report has been well received at the second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health. Those working to address the global shortage of health workers gathered in Bangkok have not been surprised by the reports finding of limited action by European Governments to address the issue. The report examined the [...]

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 [...]

In a couple weeks time Martha Kwataine, Executive Director of the Malawi Health Equity Network (MHEN), will be attending the UN MDG Review Summit in September together with Action for Global Health. She’ll bring her expertise about equitable access to health services, and the human resources for health crisis, to this key moment on the global stage.