Last June, world leaders met in New York at the UN High Level Meeting on AIDS to renew their effort to achieve universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support for HIV by 2015 under the slogan: “Intensifying our efforts to eliminate HIV and AIDS”. However in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo there is still lot to do around those issues. What has been done so far? Does everybody have access to prevention, treatment, care, and support for HIV according to the aim of the Universal Access?

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.

While the UN declaration on non-communicable diseases itself couldn’t be more vague when it comes to recognising the particular vulnerabilities of women and young people, other events happening in New York this week have brought some attention to these under-served groups. For all the talk of ‘integration’, bringing together different disease and health issues, and the particular groups most susceptible to them, appears to be a challenge. Those speakers that have done so deserve kudos.

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 [...]

More than 5,000 AIDS researchers, scientists, clinicians, community leaders and policy experts gathered in Rome for the opening (17th of July) of the 6th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2011). Treatment as prevention has become the leit motif of this conference since the opening: both the IAS 2011 International Chair and [...]

Ever wondered what working for a European NGO network is really like? In our “Critical Story of Change”, AfGH reflects on life over the past five years – where the network’s come from to where it is today – highlighting some of the challenges faced along the way.

This year marks 30 years since AIDS was first identified in a brief article on 5 June 1981 in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since then, the disease has evolved from a local epidemic to a global pandemic. HIV, the virus responsible for AIDS, [...]

Last month, Action for Global Health re-launched our “Health Heroes” campaign, which puts the spotlight on the men, women and children around the world who work tirelessly everyday to make a difference and save lives. People like Gowthami, Tante Mado, Moussa, Deepika, Firoza, Samnang and Martha are all doing their bit to ensure fair and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]