Health and Education

GSK breaks industry ranks to improve access to medicines

17 Feb – Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline should be congratulated for breaking industry ranks and taking a major step toward helping poor people in developing countries toread more

Blind Optimism

The realization of the right to health for millions of people in poor countries depends upon a massive increase in health services to achieve universal and equitable access.read more

Rich countries and World Bank must stop pushing privatized health in poor countries

Washington, DC – Rich country donors and the World Bank are wasting money and risking lives by continuing to push unproven and discredited private healthcare programs in poor cread more

Put public first, and provide healthcare for all

Good health care is a fundamental right, not a luxury.read more

Malawi Essential Health Services Campaign

Malawi is one of the world’s least-developed countries, ranked number 166 of 177 countries in the UN Human Development Index.read more

Oxfam calls for complete revamp of medical R&D

New approaches to end neglect of medical R&D for the poorest are neededNovember 13th 2008: Governments and the pharmaceutical industry are still failing to develop new medicines and varead more

Ending the R&D Crisis in Public Health

Diseases that disproportionately affect the developing world cause immense suffering and ill health.

  • Medical innovation has the potential to deliver nread more

Maternal mortality in Sierra Leone – photo gallery

Millions of women throughout the world are the victims of poverty and conflict.read more

Millennium Development Goals: bold leadership needed to turn tide of poverty

Ahead of a crucial meeting in New York next week to assess the state of the world’s fight against global poverty, international agency Oxfam called on world leaders to redoubleread more

Afghanistan: the worst place in the world to give birth – photo gallery

Where commitments to meet the Millennium Development Goals have been met, millions of people are now better off.read more

The worst place in the world to give birth – exclusive pictures from Afghanistan

When the UN meets this week to discuss the Millennium Development Goals maternal mortality will be high on the agenda.read more

MDGs: Bold leadership needed to turn tide of poverty

Ahead of a crucial meeting in New York next week to assess the state of the world’s fight against global poverty, international agency Oxfam called on world leaders to redoubleread more

Donor resistance threatens aid talks

Breakthrough on real reforms urgently needed, says OxfamAccra, Ghana:  After a day of intense negotiations in Accra, Ghana, pressure is building for a breakthrough at aread more

IAC concludes without a breakthrough: Officials dodge the 2010 goal of universal access, Oxfam says

(Mexico City) The International AIDS Conference concluded today without a clear plan or any new impetus to reach the 2010 target of universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatmentread more

Pharma rhetoric at International AIDS Conference must be matched by action

Aggressive Patenting Costs Lives, says Oxfam(Mexico City) Legal maneuvering by multinational companies restricting access to essential medicines contradicts their encouraginread more

Female condoms: a scandal of willful neglect

New report launched at International AIDS ConferenceMexico City: A new report by international agency Oxfam and the World Population Foundation says health officials have waread more

Oxfam and Annie Lennox address Universal Access: Inadequate funding and aggressive drug company tactics imperil 2010 goal

(Mexico City) Inadequate donor financing and aggressive tactics by multinational pharmaceutical companies threaten to derail efforts to achieve universal access to HIV/AIDS preventioread more