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UK pledges to a transformative Global Financing Facility
Today, the Global Financing Facility held the replenishment for its Trust Fund in Oslo. Norway and Burkina Faso hosted the event, alongside the World Bank and...
214 million more people set to suffer catastrophic health payments by 2030, new research shows
We've looked at the figures. Their meaning is clear – and alarming: healthcare is set to increase poverty. On current trends, the proportion of people...
From Alma-Ata to Astana – and the 4,000-day countdown to the Sustainable Development Goal deadline
Just 4,000 days – give or take – until the Sustainable Development Goal deadline. It’s clear what’s required: urgent action at a breathtaking pace –...
From Alma-Ata to Astana
The 2018 Primary Health Care Conference in Astana, Kazakhstan is 1,300 kilometres, 40 years and a very different world apart from the 1978 Alma Ata Conference.
How a hand-held computer is tackling lethal diarrhoea in Indian villages
Community health volunteers in Uttar Pradesh, India are collecting community-level data on diarrhoea using an mobile health tool.
A Global Financing Facility for long-term change is what we need
The Global Financing Facility – the mechanism set up by the World Bank to support women’s children’s and adolescents’ health funding – could run the...
Coaching for life
In 2019 Save the Children will mark its Centenary moment. Whilst this will be a celebration of the work of so many to help reach and change the lives of...
‘Adaptive’ or not, health programmes aren’t static. Because the world isn’t.
As the development community wrestles with the concept of ‘adaptive programming’, it’s worth remembering that programmes must and do evolve as their...
Baby Laila: a 22 month old survivor living in Cox’s Bazaar
When 22-month-old Laila* reached Cox’s Bazar she was in need of urgent medical attention. Laila had become desperately ill on her journey from Myanmar to...