Originally posted in Bill of Health by Martín Hevia and Ximena Benavides Acknowledging what went wrong during the COVID-19 pandemic is crucial to any pandemic lawmaking efforts. Chief among these concerns should be the centrality of human rights to global health security.…
FCGH Alliance member Alliance for Health Promotion (A4HP) submitted the following statement to the 2021 High-Level Segment (HLS) of the Economic and Social Council. This year’s HLS will focus primarily on COVID-19 and its impact on the implementation of the…
Eric A Friedman, Kelly E Perry, and Luiz GalvãoOriginally published in The BMJ Opinion | June 24, 2021 As covid-19 claimed ever more lives, destroyed livelihoods, and overwhelmed health systems, world leaders and global health experts rightly recognized the shortcomings of…
Precious Matsoso, Paulo Buss, Leigh Kamore HaynesIn Project Syndicate | June 7, 2021 The World Health Organization’s governing body of health ministers has responded to a call from dozens of world leaders for a new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and response,…
FCGH Alliance members Alliance for Health Promotion, International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations, and Amref Africa submitted the following statement to the Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly: Agenda ItemsAgenda Item 17 WHO’s work in health emergencies and strengthening preparedness for health emergencies…
Arachu Castro, Eric A. Friedman, Luiz Galvao, Martin Hevia, and Helia Molina Originally published in Health and Human Rights Journal , April 29, 2021 Historically, women in most parts of the world have been subject to deep discrimination which also harms…
Imagining a future Global Health Treaty grounded in the need to strengthen accountability to the right to health and close unconscionable national and global health inequalities. Online Consultation Forum15th – 16th April 2021 Objective 1To consider an African response to…
The FCGH Alliance welcomes the call of 25 world leaders, including the President of the European Council, Charles Michel and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, for an international pandemic treaty. This initiative opens the space for shaping a global response…
La pandemia COVID-19 ha develado las grandes inequidades en América Latina y el Caribe que se han traducido en muertes evitables en toda la región. En este momento, debemos enfrentar las causas fundamentales de estas inequidades y lo que contribuye…
The FCGH Alliance has released a new briefing paper on the FCGH, highlighting the urgent need of a FCGH–particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic–with the powerful contribution the FCGH could make to global health security. Excerpts from the…
