Mrs. Zsuzsanna Jakab, Regional Director-Elect for the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO EURO), has asked Global Health Europe to host an open letter to the European Health Community on her behalf. This letter outlines her vision for the future of WHO EURO. As a crucial part of her transition into the office […]
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This glossary provides a guide to global health issues from a European perspective, providing introductory articles on each topic and links to the organizations and sources most closely involved in each field. The Glossary is an updated and expanded edition of European Perspectives on Global Health-a policy glossary (Kickbusch and Lister, 2006). It is a living resource that is intended to grow to reflect the comments and engagement of participants in Global Health Europe. If your perspective is not yet reflected in the glossary, you are welcome to add comments and links so that we can understand each other better and improve how we work together.Below you’ll find an alphabetic list of topics covered in the glossary. The articles are organized into four main sections dealing with:
- the values that underlie our European approach to global health
- the key issues and actors involved in global governance for health
- European commitments to global health
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Commonwealth Backs Climate Change Fund
Commonwealth leaders meeting in Trinidad have backed the proposals put forward by the UK and France for a global fund intended to build up to a total of $10 billion per year to help low income countries achieve carbon emission targets. They unanimously agreed to seek a legally binding international agreement. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh […]
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HIV Infections Reduced
A new report released by UNAIDS and WHO shows that since 2001, when the United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS was signed, the number of new infections in sub-Saharan Africa is approximately 15% lower in 2008. In East Asia HIV incidence has declined by nearly 25% and in South and South East Asia by […]
The world’s first cases of person to person transmission of H1N1 “swine flu” have been reported amongst a group of immune-compromised patients at a hospital in Wales. While further transmission is unlikely from this group, it shows the potential danger to health resources of the emergence of such resistance. For further details see the BBC […]
The European HIV/AIDS Funders Group (EFG) and Funders Concerned About AIDS (FCAA) announce the launch of their annual resource tracking publications. Key Findings Include: HIV/AIDS-related philanthropy in 2008 totalled €91 million ($134 million) among European-based philanthropies and $618 million among U.S.-based philanthropies. The reports show that total funding for HIV/AIDS by European-based philanthropies was lower […]
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Zedillo Commission Reports
Ernesto Zedillo the former President of Mexico and Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization has recently delivered the report of the commission he led on the governance of the World Bank Group. The report puts forward proposals to streamline the governance board structure, improve the representation of low income countries and […]
The New York Times questions the logic behind current global health priorities and considers the debate on whether “rich nations spend too much on AIDS, which requires lifelong medications, compared with diarrhoea and the other leading killer of children, pneumonia, both of which can be treated inexpensively.” The article shows that while international commitments to […]
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New WHO Report on Global Risks to Health
This new report uses updated information from WHO programmes and scientific studies in order to provide detailed global and regional estimates of premature mortality, disability and loss of health attributable to 24 global risk factors. “A description of diseases and injuries and the risk factors that cause them is vital for health decision-making and planning. […]
By Kaitlin Mara, for Intellectual Property Watch World Health Organization members this week offered views on the global system for virus- and benefit-sharing for pandemic influenza following recently proposed solutions by Director General Margaret Chan aimed at changing the current, ad-hoc model to a more predictable, sustainably-funded system. “Even with the best intentions in the […]
The online consultation will be open for public contribution for two months, closing on 9 December 2009. The purpose is to gather orientations and views from relevant stakeholders regarding the rationale, scope and strategic objectives relating to an EU role in Global health. The open consultation centres around an issue paper and questionnaire prepared in […]