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Are disease-specific interventions helping us reach health for all?

On the 16th April, we held an event in London called “The Alternatives – Global Perspectives for Healthier Lives”.

Climate change poses huge threats to the sustainability of the environmental resources we all depend on. It also threatens human health and could increase social instability.

Although it kills nearly one million people every year, malaria is preventable and curable.

Read about our As One campaign and our brilliant partners!

Health Poverty Action warmly welcomes the Labour Party’s policy paper A World for the Many, launched today Monday 26 March

What is tuberculosis? Tuberculosis, or TB, is a contagious disease caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB). It usually destroys the lungs, but can also affect any other organ in the body. Common symptoms include coughing, loss of weight, fever and night sweats, tiredness and loss of appetite. A vaccine for TB has been […]

Neglected tropical diseases affect 1.4 billion people in the world’s poorest countries, but they could be safely and cheaply treated

Health systems across the Global South are short of cash. Yet the rules of the tax and trade systems are taking resources away from healthcare.

Today is the World Day of Social Justice. An opportunity to focus our attention on efforts to tackle the many injustices persisting across the world.