Africa must take action to build resilience, self-reliance, and self-determination for its health future Dr. Meshack Ndirangu Wanjuki, Country Director – Amref Health Africa in Kenya The volte-face in foreign aid at the start of 2025 was shocking in its…
Sunit Bagree is Senior Policy Advocacy Officer at Results UK. This blog post is jointly published by Action for Global Health and the International Parliamentary Network for Education. There is no escaping the fact that the Sustainable Development Goals are…
This is a guest post from Malaria Consortium, an international non-profit organisation specialising in the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases – particularly those affecting children under five. One patient, in particular has, stuck with Saidat Usman. A woman…
Immunisation and nutrition integration (INI) was a prominent theme at the Nutrition for Growth Summit in Paris last week. What is it, and why do we think it is an important advocacy opportunity to increase spending on nutrition programmes? In…
Action for Global Health calls on the Prime Minister to immediately reverse today’s devastating announcement of the cut to UK aid spending from 0.5% of GNI to 0.3%, to prevent harming the lives of millions of people around the world…
Action for Global Health calls for an emergency response following the US Government’s alarming Executive Orders – including the withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), the freeze on USAID spending and the reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule –…
As we look back on World Leprosy Day (26 January) and ahead to World Neglected Tropical Disease Day (30 January), we call for more global commitment to end to these terrible diseases. In 2023, 182,815 people were diagnosed with leprosy,…
Eye health is universal. Everyone will require eye care services at some point in their life – when did you last have an eye test, or a new glasses prescription? We know that more than half of people who have…
By Agnes Soucat, François Dabis and Marie-Paule Kieny of Santé mondiale 2030 For more information on crises facing global health and how to get progress towards UHC back on track, read our 2024 Stocktake Review. Mounting political instability on both…
Trigger warning: this article contains discussion of rape and sexual violence. In February 2024, Malawi's Daily Times published an article about the death of a 16-year-old girl. The details reported were that she had been raped by a Kabaza (motorcycle…