Global health at a crossroads: BMJ articles inform debate as world leaders meet at the UN

🌐 As world leaders and health experts convene and make commitments at the UN’s annual meeting, General Assembly of the United Nations, The BMJ has published several articles to inform needed action and international cooperation on health. Several obstacles (and opportunities) are on the path:

Rebecca Root reports on how USAID de-funding has given way to UK foreign aid cuts, threatening lives and health in low and middle income countries: https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1913

Clare Wenham traces the slow decline of the UK’s global reputation in health, and urges renewed political leadership and support: https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1970

Niki Ignatiou from ActionAid argues for a more equitable global finance system to protect vulnerable groups, particularly girls and women: https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1902

Peter Piot London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, U. of London and Ibrahim Abubakar UCL urge the UK to renew its financial support of the The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria: https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1943

Simon Williams reports on how in a fragmenting world and with Foreign Aid being cut, countries from the Global South are pivoting, showing resilience to ensure the sustainability of their public health systems and health of populations: https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1961

In a rare high-level health meeting, discussions turned to non-communicable diseases: their prevention, control, and investment. Among the NCDs, COPD gets less attention. Read more in Rebecca Coombes’s interview with José Luis Castro, WHO’s special envoy for chronic respiratory diseases https://www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r2011

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