Global Health

Action for Global Health launched their report "Healthy Aid" in six countries on 18 June 2008. The report examines how health aid effectiveness could be improved, and includes six country case studies exploring how the "Paris Principles" on aid effectiveness have been applied in the health sector.

2008 is the thirtieth anniversary of the Alma Ata Declaration - a commitment made in 1978 that Health for All would be achieved by 2000. It was not.
ACT NOW FOR HEALTH is a joint campaign to persuade ministers from around the world to recognise that health must be a priority in 2008.
2008 is the thirtieth anniversary of the Alma Ata Declaration - a commitment made in 1978 that Health for All would be achieved by 2000. It was not. Governments did not meet their commitments. We are now at (...)

Nigeria’s government is suing three international tobacco firms for $44bn (£22bn) - the first such case in the developing world - due to start in the capital, Abuja.
Dossier
Nigeria’s government says tobacco manufacturers are putting unacceptable pressure on the country’s health services, and companies are targeting younger and younger people in an attempt to replace former smokers in Europe and America.
British American Tobacco (BAT), Philip Morris and International Tobacco Ltd, deny (...)