Items tagged with Global health
What is the millennium development goal on HIV and malaria all about? (post)
The goal aims to reverse the spread of HIV and malaria and achieve universal access to treatment. How has it fared since its launch?
Lessons from the Global Fund’s Reform (post)
On January 23, 2011, the Associated Press (AP) released an article titled “Fraud Plagues Global Health Fund.” Picked up by news agencies across the globe, it extrapolated from reports of the inspector general of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund) in 2010 to imply endemic corruption across the Global Fund system. Even though widely discredited, the article nevertheless set off a firestorm that is just now being fully extinguished. It provoked an existential crisis. The response the article precipitated was swift and dramatic, and thankfully resulted in a stronger and better run Global Fund. While some of the circumstances are specific to the Global Fund and its mode of governance, there are important lessons here for other international organizations, including the World Health Organization, itself facing considerable criticism and deliberations over its internal reform and special governance challenges, following its bungled response to the 2014 Ebola crisis in three West African nations.
WHO lays out plans for financing new global health goal: to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages (post)
10 JULY 2015 ¦ ADDIS ABABA ¦ GENEVA - WHO is urging countries to move towards universal health coverage and to scale up international investment in catalytic development funding. The call comes as world leaders travel to the Third UN Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa to discuss ways to pay for the new Sustainable Development Goals, to be launched in New York in September 2015.
Study finds donor funds fall short for key global health functions (post)
As experts debate the slow response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and call for better international coordination, a new analysis estimates that $22 billion was spent on global health aid in 2013, yet only a fifth of this went toward such global imperatives as research on diseases that disproportionally affect the poor, outbreak preparedness and global health leadership.
Accelerating domestic investments in health (post)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, 13 July 2015 - Efforts to increase domestic investment in health programs has taken a prominent spot at the Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this week.
Report: Global Reference List of 100 Core Health Indicators, 2015 (post)
The Global Reference List of 100 Core Health Indicators is a standard set of 100 indicators prioritized by the global community to provide concise information on the health situation and trends, including responses at national and global levels. It will be reviewed and updated periodically as global and country priorities evolve and measurement methods improve. This publication contains the 2015 version.
MSF: TPP negotiators must fix the most damaging trade agreement ever for global health (post)
Maui/New York, July 24, 2015—Trade negotiators must remove damaging access to medicines provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal or risk locking in high drug prices and endangering the health of millions of people for decades to come, said the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) as negotiations resumed in Maui, Hawaii, today. MSF’s call comes as reports indicate that this could be the last negotiation before the agreement is concluded.
NGOs cry foul at drug patent rules in TPP (post)
The international pharmaceutical industry is under renewed attack for squeezing trading partners into tight intellectual property rights requirements.
U.S. pressure on India's pro-health patent law threatens Sustainable Development Goals (post)
Asia Pacific Network of People living with HIV/ AIDS (APN+) and HEALTH GAP Call on India to stand strong and defend the pharmacy of the Developing World
WHO multi-country survey reveals widespread public misunderstanding about antibiotic resistance (post)
16 November 2015 ¦ GENEVA - As WHO ramps up its fight against antibiotic resistance, a new multi-country survey shows people are confused about this major threat to public health and do not understand how to prevent it from growing.
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