This World Food Day, ACTION is reflecting on progress made over the last five years to fill the gap in financing for nutrition by releasing Following the Funding: Nutrition for Growth — Progress Report because now is the time for funders to consider their role in reaching global targets to reduce malnutrition and what it will take to get there.
Although good health is the foundation for individuals, communities, and countries to thrive, a 2015 study by the World Health Organization and the World Bank estimated that 400 million people worldwide lack access to at least one of seven essential health services, ranging from pregnancy care to clean water. Despite much progress under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), from 2000 to 2015, much more needs to be done to give all people equal access to health. ACTION’s policy paper, Progress in Peril? The Changing Landscape of Global Health Financing examines the global health landscape in the face of imminent shifts in where and how global health funding is available to support low- and middle-income countries.
Partners and Ministers of Health this morning met in Vilnius (Lithuania), in the margins of the WHO Regional Committee meetings, to sign the first ever approved TB Regional Grant from the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria in the European region.
Measles moves fast. The highly contagious virus can strike anywhere at any time, be it in Nigerian refugee camps or California’s Disneyland
Twenty-two years after the first International Conference on Nutrition, the widely anticipated ICN2 is now drawing to a close in Rome. ACTION Staff who participated in the conference analyze what was accomplished -- and what more can be done.
A new report from ACTION partners show that progress in involving civil society in national TB programs across the European region is falling short of planned goals
At a time of great challenges for Ukraine, 23 tuberculosis (TB) activists, representing 12 countries from the Eastern European and Central Asian region, gathered in Kyiv to collectively strengthen their ability to participate in and influence national and regional TB responses.
With EU elections right around the corner, the EU and its member states should remember that human life is a value people will vote for, and that ensuring healthy lives for future generations outside Europe is a smart investment in Europe’s own development and stabilty.