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.

“No money no treatment?” was the slogan of a stunt organised by Action for Global Health’s German partners Welthungerhilfe, Terre des Hommes and the German Foundation for World Population (DSW) in co-operation with Oxfam Germany and Save the Children Germany. The groups called for the removal of user fees for medical treatment in developing countries. [...]

A couple of weeks ago I caught up with Jeffrey Sachs at the World Health Assembly in Geneva. He made a short statement for us which we recorded and blogged about here. In it Professor Sachs repeated his well known view that there is ‘no better investment’ for rich countries than to ringfence 0.1% of [...]