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June 05, 2024
Amidst stagnating levels of development assistance for health, questions about the future of vertical programs such as PEPFAR, lackluster performance on the Sustainable Development Goal for health, and growing calls to address excessive fragmentation in global health, the global health community is ...
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June 03, 2024
There are few health conditions that impact as many people as visual impairment. Some 1.1 billion people, the vast majority in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), live with uncorrected refractive error, cataracts, and other eye diseases. A recent study commissioned by the Seva Foundation is th...
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May 31, 2024
Well, that was an eventful week. We’re one week into the UK General Election campaign, which has so far been conducted with all the dignity of a Rooney family wedding. We’ve had internecine fighting, a spate of retirements, MPs mocking their own policy platforms and what can only be described as a s...
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May 24, 2024
This has been a week of extremes for me: I spent the first part of the week basking in sunshine in Barcelona for a (very good) conference, meeting people from around the world working on interesting problems, eating incredibly good food and enjoying one of the more walkable cities I’ve visited. And ...
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May 17, 2024
It was a long, hard slog, and there have been a number of setbacks (not least days on end of merciless grey skies and rain), but London has finally settled into a real, actual summer. That means two things: first, everyone is in a ridiculously good mood. We get three weeks of sunshine a year, and it...
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May 10, 2024
It was hit-and-miss for a while—there were a good few weeks when I thought the UK would just completely forego spring and summer and transition directly from winter into autumn—but there are tentative signs of summer in London. London in the summer is a bit like a bird that spends 11 months of the y...
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May 10, 2024
While there was no great fanfare coming out of the IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings, a closer look at the official statements reveals simmering tensions between major constituencies over the execution of the World Bank’s new “Livable Planet” agenda. These tensions were fueled by debates over the alloc...