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,…
Over the last 20 years there has been enormous progress made in the fight against malaria. In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) detailed in their World Malaria Report that 7.6 million lives have been saved since 2000 and 1.5 billion cases averted. Twenty-one countries have eliminated malaria over the last…
Over the last 20 years there has been enormous progress made in the fight against malaria. In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) detailed in their World Malaria Report that 7.6 million lives have been saved since 2000 and 1.5 billion cases averted. Twenty-one countries have eliminated malaria over the…
The Government’s announcement of significant cuts to overseas development aid is a severe blow to the world’s most marginalised communities already unable to access essential health care around the world. As a network of organisations dedicated to improving health and wellbeing in many of…
The resourcing – or lack of it – for global health is an ongoing and increasingly urgent concern. There has been a steady decline in overseas development assistance (ODA) for health over a number of years and, even within this…