Category: Blog
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The Lancet – Time for a global human rights treaty for health equity
The UN Summit of the Future from Sept 22 to Sept 23, 2024, is fast approaching, with a focus on achieving the Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs) by 2030, but also looking further into the future. The global health community would do well to consider what should follow the SDGs. To build on the Summit’s broad remit….
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A Treaty on Health Equity and Health Rights: For the SDGs and the Future Statement to the UN Summit of the Future, 2024
Health equity is the most telling metric of progress on the 2030 Agenda, and a key driver of its success. Virtually all SDGs impact health equity, while actions aimed at reducing health equity gaps will accelerate progress throughout the 2030 Agenda. Yet the world is vastly off track to achieve its health targets. As COVID-19 made plain, the world is facing a pandemic of health inequity.
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The Imperative for a Framework Convention on Global Health Amid Fiscal Constraints in African Countries
Contributed by Ivan Mugabi, Kabale University, Kampala, Uganda The Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) has been proposed as a global treaty to improve health equity and realise the right...
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A path for #healthforall through a Framework Convention on Global Health
Contributed by Miguel Correia April 7th marks World Health Day, a day to raise awareness about the importance of health and wellbeing for people around the world. This year’s theme,...
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The Case for a Framework Convention on Global Health
Giandomenico Barcellona Translated from from Italian by Capucine Barcellona. There are at least two fundamental reasons to promote the creation of a Framework Convention on Global Health. First, health constitutes the...
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SHEM Human Rights and Equity Statement and Call to Action
The Human Rights and Equity Working Group of the Sustainable Health Equity Movement (SHEM) has drafted a statement and call to action aimed at the UN Human Rights Council, the...
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Addressing inequity and advancing the right to health to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response
The FCGH Alliance partnered with the Global Health Center, Graduate Institute Geneva to organize a seminar on a pandemic treaty on 5 November 2021. The seminar presented gave participants the...
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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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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...