Less than a week after the European Commission released its vision of development cooperation, Piebalgs stressed that investment in social sectors is critical for sustained growth and poverty eradication. “In the EU Agenda for Change, we have made clear that health and education is a priority and at least 20 per cent of ODA [official development […]
Number one global killer unchallenged
Action for Global Health says 90 per cent of under-60s who die of such non-infectious diseases live in the poorest nations in the world. “Every year, eight million people in developing countries die prematurely of conditions like heart and lung disease,” says Rachel Lander of Interact Worldwide, a UK Action for Global Health partner. “Evidence […]
Health workforce must be part of broader health plans
The resolution on health system strengthening, calls for countries to implement the voluntary code, so that both source and destination countries can derive benefits from the international migration of health personnel, as well as to mitigate the negative effects of health worker migration on health systems. National health workforce plans are an integral part of […]
World Health Assembly: Need of reforms and new initiatives
In her opening address, Margaret Chan, WHO Director General mentioned amongst the successes the development of new vaccines to fight meningitis, pneumonia and diarrhoea and progress in the fight to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other preventable diseases. Those improvements are partly the result of ‘the recent efforts so many Member States and development partners have […]
The EU: a global player in health and development?
The conference gathered over 30 parliamentarians from across Europe and a range of expert speakers, including Dr Malcolm Potts, the eminent demographer from Berkeley University (USA) and Peter Colenso, Head of the Human Development Group in the Policy and Research Division of the UK Government’s Department for International Development. At the meeting representatives of the […]
EU-wide tax on financial transactions is a ‘win-win solution’
As governments attempt to rein in public deficits, and with many EU member states scaling back their overseas development aid (ODA) contributions, an FTT is capable of generating the kind of revenue which is needed to put progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) back on track. As Natalia Alonso points out, “The introduction of […]
