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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
En Guinée, l’accès aux soins de santé est un droit pour tous. Cependant, comme dans beaucoup d’autres pays en voie de développement, la majorité de la population n’y a pas accès. Plusieurs facteurs favorisent cette inaccessibilité, parmi lesquels la pauvreté et le manque de personnel de soins et d’infrastructures, auxquels vienne...
“In many conversations, youth mentioned that they will be approaching policy makers for funds to travel to Rwanda for the International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA), many policy-makers and civil society organisations discussed their plans for ICASA, Beijing25, … We are moving from one meeting to the next, it seems. Not sure th...
(You find the translation in French below) The 2010 World Health Report recognised that health financing is both a driver and an outcome of sustainable development, while the 2018 Astana declaration emphasised the importance of health financing as a crucial element in achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the health-related Sustainabl...
On 12-14 November, public health professionals, activists, academics and community members, along with government officials and donor representatives, converged in Nairobi for the ICPD+25 Nairobi Summit. UNFPA and its two co-sponsoring governments – Denmark and host country Kenya – had billed the event to be a landmark for sexual and reprodu...
When João Costa sent his blog to IHP’s editorial team, his accompanying mail finely mentioned that “his text might steer polemics, but they will be indeed healthy ones”. As a privileged pre-publication reader/reviewer, I couldn’t agree more – and hope that the few comments I offer below may positively contribute to the healthy exchange ...
In the aftermath of September celebrations of the United Nations General Assembly’s resolution adopting the objective of affordable Universal Health Coverage (UHC) for 2030, skeptical feelings crept in. It was reported then: “United Nations members today adopted a high-level political declaration raising the stakes in the global push to ...
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) – which simply means equitable access to needed quality healthcare services without the risk of financial catastrophe or impoverishment associated with obtaining care – is one of 169 targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), more in particular target 3.8. While there is evidence that a strong Primary ...
As countries embark on their UHC journey, the need for evidence and strong national health research systems has become more critical than ever. Countries in the Africa Region have overall experienced significant improvements in the capacity, governance, utilization and financing of research yet their national health research systems are performi...
As its overall theme stated, the 60th ITM Colloquium hoped to “connect the dots” between some of the most pressing needs in tropical medicine and international health. The venue, “de Zuiderkroon” in Antwerp, was certainly inviting. The main focus of the two-day conference (9-10 October), also labelled ‘One Health. One Future. One Pla...