Submitted by Kat Lahr PROLOGUE (COVID-19 update) I wrote this post before the coronavirus outbreak and I wanted to add some additional thoughts about this global pandemic as my words below are even more important and evident now. The novel…
The FCGH Alliance has drafted articles on participation to spark discussion on possible paths by which states can ensure people’s meaningful participation in developing, monitoring, and evaluating laws, policies, programs that may impact their right to health. We invite your comments and broader feedback on this section!
We often look to how the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) would empower people, enhancing meaningful participation and government accountability to the right to health, with an emphasis on people who now have the least voice and to whom governments are least accountable. Such empowerment is central to the FCGH, not only for people but also for ministries of health.
On September 23 the UN high-level meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) will take place in New York City, where world leaders will sign a political declaration on how to achieve UHC. Global civil society has strong criticism of this…
One of the key principles that the FCGH Alliance proposes for the Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) centres around empowering people to claim and enforce their right to health. Such empowerment is presently missing from Kenya’s legal framework, vital though it is.
The FCGH Alliance has now begun the drafting process, with the aim of catalyzing widespread engagement and reaching people who rarely have a say in health-related policymaking and beginning to build a shared vision for what the FCGH could accomplish.
The Executive Committee of the Global Health International Advisors (GHIA) extended its support to the FCGH with the following resolution: “The Global Health International Advisors, GHIA, having analyzed the statements and efforts of the Alliance for the Framework Convention for GlobalHealth–a global treaty based on human…
The Alianza Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Salud Global (ALASAG, Latin American Alliance for Global Health) held its fifth global conference in Medellín, Colombia 14-16 November 2018. The final day of the conference included a panel titled “Health Equity as…
The FCGH embodies the principles that are under a dark cloud in much of the world: a commitment to an international order that values multilateral collaboration and that seeks to advance the common good and human rights for all...
What are National Health Equity Strategies? They delineate ways, in the health sector and beyond, to narrow health disparities, with particular attention and strategies to address health needs of certain marginalized populations.
