This is a guest post from Nancy Smart, Country Director for Sierra Leone at Sightsavers, an international development organisation protecting sight and fighting for disability rights. Gender discrimination is a cause close to my heart. Living and working in such…
This is a guest post from King’s Global Health Partnerships calling for all governments to provide for their citizens affordable, quality health care in light of this year’s Universal Health Coverage Day and the release of The FCDO’s Ending Preventable Deaths and Health Systems Strengthening Approach Papers. I am sure many of…
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to shine a spotlight on health inequalities all around the world, Action for Global Health welcomes the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s Ending Preventable Deaths and Health Systems Strengthening Approach Papers. These papers provide welcome…
This is a guest post from Alice Tilton, Technical Advisor at Options – an international development consultancy delivering innovative solutions to some of the world’s most complex health challenges. I recently joined hundreds of other people for the online launch…
This afternoon, G7 leaders announced their collective response to tackling COVID-19 globally in their Leaders’ Communique, pledging one billion doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by the end of next year, including 100 million from…
As G7 leaders meet to discuss how to ensure they are better prepared for the next pandemic, Action for Global Health - a network of more than 50 global health organisations and experts - responds to this afternoon’s release of…
On Friday, G7 health ministers met in Oxford to agree joint commitments on issues ranging from antimicrobial resistance to digital health in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The resulting communique noted the broad repercussions of COVID-19 on health, health…
Action for Global Health call for UK to lead G7 efforts to strengthen health systems globally in response to COVID-19 at this week’s meeting of Health Ministers. Action for Global Health has today sent a letter to the Rt Hon Matt…
The UK must reinstall the UK’s Official Development Assistance commitment to 0.7% to avoid loss of lives and decades-long rollback in global health, poverty and rendering impossible the ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The Action for Global Health network…
Today, Action for Global Health are launching their ‘Healthy Futures: G7 Campaign’ to highlight the importance of universal health coverage. Ensuring that the UK prioritises this issue at the G7 Summit in June is critical to enable the world’s hardest hit countries to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. To mark the launch of the month-long campaign, we’re taking a look at what the G7 is,…