Watch this 6-minute video as global health expert Dr. Madhu Pai takes the podium at the International AIDS Conference in Montreal and delivers a searing indictment of the racism underpinning global health inequities.
A Call to Address Racism and Colonialism in Global Health
A Call to Address Racism and Colonialism in Global Health
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World Malaria Day 2024 - Accelerating the fight against malaria for a more equitable world
25, 04, 2024
Despite being preventable and treatable, malaria kills nearly half a million people and infects over 200 million worldwide every... Read more
Canada Announces over $142 Million in Funding to Support Health Systems in the DRC and Benin
12, 04, 2024
“Canada’s ongoing support for gender equality, the empowerment of women and girls, a greener economy and economic resilience in Africa is unwavering. My recent visit to Benin and the... Read more
Improving Maternal Healthcare in Sierra Leone One Concrete Block at a Time
15, 09, 2023
Women in Sierra Leone are breaking barriers to build a new maternity centre. Sixty percent of the construction workers on site are women.
“It is for us, the women who will give... Read more
Success at Nyarugusu: How one of the world’s largest refugee camps achieved zero maternal deaths in 2022
31, 05, 2023
Progress in the global fight to safeguard the lives of mothers during pregnancy and childbirth has recently stagnated, and in 2020 an estimated 287,000 maternal deaths occurred worldwide.
... Read more
World TB Day: Yes! We Can End TB!
24, 03, 2023
World TB Day is observed annually on March 24 to raise awareness about TB and efforts to end the global epidemic, marking the day in 1882 when the bacterium causing TB was discovered.
TB is... Read more
African Leaders Unite to end AIDS in Children
07, 02, 2023
Good news! In a unanimous declaration, African leaders pledge to end AIDS in children by 2030. Ministers and representatives from twelve African countries have committed themselves and laid... Read more
COVID vaccine hoarding might have cost more than a million lives
04, 11, 2022
By the end of 2021, nearly half of the world’s population had received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. But those vaccines were not distributed equitably: vaccination rates were 75% in high-income... Read more
Staggering backsliding across women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health revealed in new UN analysis
21, 10, 2022
"Far from a progress report, this document describes a reversal. Women’s and children’s health and rights are threatened to a degree not seen in more than a generation." ... Read more
World Health Summit: Taking Global Health to a New Level
18, 10, 2022
What does it mean to take global health to the next level?
A new global agreement based on a shared vision.
A new global architecture that is coherent and... Read more
A Call to Address Racism and Colonialism in Global Health
12, 08, 2022
Watch this 6-minute video as global health expert Dr. Madhu Pai takes the podium at the International... Read more
Canada Denounced for Visa Denials at AIDS 2022
31, 07, 2022
"Right now, if you are hosting a global health conference in US, UK, Canada, EU or Australia, you have decided that it’s acceptable to exclude people from the Global South. How... Read more
Vaccine Equity: The Problem. The Solution.
26, 06, 2022
The World Health Organization continues to shine an unflinching light on global vaccine inequity. The vast majority... Read more
A Devastating Global Failure
17, 06, 2022
Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) calls the WTO’s inability to agree on a TRIPS waiver a devastating global failure.
“We are disappointed that a true intellectual property waiver,... Read more
Canada, Vaccines, and the WTO
10, 06, 2022
The Canadian government’s continued reluctance to support the proposed TRIPS waiver at the World Trade Organization (WTO) is a stain on Canada’s reputation as a nation that demands fairness on the... Read more
Pfizer Announces Low-Cost Drugs for 45 of World's Poorest Countries
26, 05, 2022
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer has announced it will supply its current and future patent-protected medicines and vaccines on a not-for-profit basis to the world’s poorest countries... Read more
COVID-19: Women will Bear the Burden
10, 04, 2022
"Endemic is the word for a pandemic in places that people in power can ignore. ... If the grotesque combination of corporate greed, government inaction and global underfunding... Read more
