Launch of Healthy Aid: policy report of Action for Global Health
19 June 2008
Brussels, Paris, Bonn, Rome, Madrid, London, 18 June 2008.
HEALTHY AID outlines eight specific recommendations that EU leaders will need to advance, both in their own policies and at the three major international events that this year renew the development aid landscape (the high level UN session on the MDGs in New York in September, the "Third High Level Forum" on aid effectiveness in Accra in September, and the financing for development conference in Doha in November). HEALTHY AID has assessed the issue of aid effectiveness in the health sector and the implementation of the "Paris Principles" which have supposedly governed aid since 2005. The study includes six individual country case studies examining in detail the effectiveness of health aid and the obstacles to attain the health MDGs in Bolivia, Niger, Zambia, Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Indonesia. Key findings in the report include:
Action for Global Health Brussels partners have called on the EU leaders meeting in the wake of the Irish vote on the Lisbon treaty to ensure that the Irishvote doesn't derail current EU business. Nowhere is this more important than the EU Action Agenda for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Indeed millions of people's lives around the world hang on their ability to continue to do the EU's business despite the challenges posed by the Irish vote. At the European Council EU leaders were to discuss an EU Agenda for Action on the MDGs designed to ensure they map out how they are to put back on track the EU's contributions to aid for the most vulnerable. "EU leaders shouldn't hide behind the Irish Vote on the Lisbon Treaty and absolve themselves of their responsibilities. They need to spell out how and when they are to implement their previous commitments" said Monika Kosinska, Secretary General of EPHA, member of Action for Global Health.
"After more than half the time has passed to achieve them, the three health MDGs are at most risk of failure. The European Council needs to demonstrate leadership and focus on continuing this vital EU business. To do so is a matter of life and death for millions of the most vulnerable around the world" stated Marielle Hart, Head of EU policy with Stop AIDS Alliance, another Action For Global Health member.
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