Action for Global Health (AfGH) welcomes the report of the High-Level Panel (HLP) of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda that was released on Thursday, May 30th 2013. AfGH has contributed through many channels to the work of HLP, including the hosting of a civil society consultation in Tanzania. As the process of consultation moves forward, AfGH will seek to strengthen support for Universal Health Coverage (UHC), to be added as a key instrument in a smart-measurable manner in the development agenda. Further, we will call for strong and ambitious indicators to realise the achievement of the current unmet health MDGs. 

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COMING away from the Women Deliver conference, one cannot help but feel motivated. This is certainly a conference that inspires action and makes people working in women’s rights want to continue. read more...

This week, Action for Global Health has been taking part in the Women Deliver conference in Malaysia, where we have been exploring how a Universal Health Coverage system can meet the sexual, reproductive and maternal health needs of women in all societies. During the week, we have also launched our short film ‘On the Way: Universal Access to Maternal Health in El Salvador’, which is today published on the Guardian’s Global Development website . read more...

At the World Health Assembly last week, a move towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) was claimed, or at least referred to, by a majority of Member States addressing the assembly. For many Latin American, African and South-East Asian countries, including BRICS, the notion of universality is appealing because countries then determine for themselves health priorities, models of service delivery and the appropriate models of financing. read more...

The European network Action for Global Health (AfGH) will join a panel of experts from around the world at the Women Deliver conference and call for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) to ensure that Sexual and Reproductive Health services are available to all.  read more...

Ahead of today's High Level Panel meeting in New York, Action for Global Health calls for the Right to Health to be included in the Post 2015 Framework. read more...

The four-year project, supported by the Global Fund, sees Kimirina working together with the Ministry of Public Health.  Together they have achieved transformative results across the country in the first two years of the project.   In 2010, malaria was present in 22 of 24 departments in Ecuador.  In 2011, the number of reported cases of malaria decreased by 35% and the majority of cases of malaria are concentrated in only 10 departments. read more...

We welcome the broad consultation organised by the governments of Botswana, Sweden, WHO and UNICEF and congratulate in particular the Task Team for the participatory process and the quality of the consultation. The report reflects well the debates that were held, building on the merits and limits of the current Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), as well as the need to continue our efforts to meet these goals. read more...