Category: Blog
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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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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...
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Your Pandemic Experience Can Bolster the Fight for the Right to Health
The Framework Convention on Global Health Alliance has launched a COVID-19 survey to hear from you! As we work towards ensuring the right to health for all, in every corner of...
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On the Framework Convention on Global Health
The convention offers a human rights-based legal foundation for global health security—which is exactly what we need now
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Una convención sobre Salud Global
Martín Hevia, presidente de la FCGH Alliance, escribe que la adopción de la Convención puede tener un efecto transformador y empoderar a la comunidad internacional y a los gobiernos para reconstruir y reforzar los sistemas de salud pública después de la pandemia del coronavirus.
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FCGH Alliance Joins Global Movement for Sustainable Health Equity
The FCGH Alliance has joined the Global Movement for Sustainable Health Equity! In April 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to spread, several doctors with clinical, epidemiological and health policy...
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Alliance members stress need for an FCGH at World Health Assembly
FCGH Alliance members were present at the 73rd World Health Assembly 18-19 May 2020. Alliance for Health Promotion and International Alliance of Patients’ Organizations stressed the need for accountability and...
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Building Back Better: A Framework Convention on Global Health and Preventing the Next Pandemic
The adoption of a global health treaty, which the FCGH Alliance has been advocating for, would include an internationally agreed set of principles, standards and mechanisms allowing governments to act faster to contain pandemics.