Globally people’s health is improving but there is still much to be done as the poorest people in the poorest countries suffer the most from ill health. We are working with governments and healthcare organisations to improve healthcare systems and access to services.
One of the important side meetings of the International Health Partnership meeting in Geneva last week was between Michel Kazatchkine, the executive director of the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria (GFATM) and Mozambique's Minister of Health, Paulo …
I got the strong impression last week that Margaret Chan, the dynamic leader of the World Health Organization is a closet karaoke singer! In order to highlight that partnership between agencies, developing countries, financing partners and between governments and civil society …
I packed Barack Obama's autobiography ‘The audacity of hope' for a trip from Maputo to Geneva which I made this last week. What a great read! I am a bit of a nervous flyer - sweaty palms as soon as …
One of my team's largest projects is the Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA). Launched last year, it aims to improve the quality and availability of drugs in 7 pilot countries, while also making those drugs more affordable. It does this by bringing …
I had a really interesting meeting at the end of last week on how we might increase the participation and voice of civil society in both health and HIV/AIDS policy in Mozambique. The meeting took place in the DFID office, the air-conditioning …
I am just coming from a meeting with the Permanent Secretary, and Directors in the Ministry of Health. They kindly let me take a picture at the start of the meeting, which was on the 7th floor of the Ministry of …
It is quiet here in Maputo at present. Christmas is the start of the summer holiday in the southern hemisphere, and many of my colleagues in government and development agencies are still on holiday. But there is quite a lot …
Well, the sun has set on 2008, and what a beautiful sunset it was. My friend Marie took this picture on the 29th December from the Marginal Road overlooking Maputo Bay. I think it really captures some of the magic of …
I have been incredibly busy in the two weeks following on from World AIDS Day. My DFID colleague Katie Bigmore and I and Mauricio Cysne from UNAIDS joined a team from the World Bank who were reviewing Mozambique’s World Bank …
As people around the world concentrate on HIV/AIDS - today is World AIDS Day - it's hard to know where to focus here in Afghanistan. We just don't know much at all about the scale of the problem. Data for …
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