Author: FCGH Alliance
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Why We Need a Transformative Right-to-Health Pandemic Treaty Now
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...
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Alliance For Health Promotion Statement to ECOSOC High-Level Segment
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...
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An international treaty enshrining the right to health should be part of post-covid reforms
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...
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Reform or Revolution in Global Health?
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...
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FCGH Alliance members to WHA74: A Framework Convention on Global Health would ‘create a safer world for all’
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...
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Advancing Women’s and Children’s Health: The Value of the Framework Convention on Global Health
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...
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Action plans towards a Global Treaty for our Right to Health
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 –...
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A Pandemic Response and Global Health Architecture Rooted in the Right to Health
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....
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Webinar: Equidad en Salud en América Latina y el Caribe
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...
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Framework Convention on Global Health: A Legal Foundation for Sustainable Health Equity
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...