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This week the AIDS2018 Conference in Amsterdam kicked off with an explicit focus on diversity, key populations and young people. AIDS conferences are always a bit of a celebration, bringing together scientists and activists, politicians and social society, donors and implementers in an invigorating combination of evidence, practice and protest. ...
It’s Thursday evening in Tokyo and the High Level session of the UHC Forum just closed, with Japanese calligraphy celebrating the ‘Health for All’ slogan. Over the last days,” Tedros” and “Jim” were at the centre of events, applauded as popstars, framed by a different celebrity ‘band’ at each session: Secretary General Gutierre...
I’m at FfD3, which stands for Third Conference on Financing for Development, in Addis. Why? I’m not an economist, nor a development expert and certainly no politician. I work for a medical humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The environment we work in is strongly defined by development politics. The current move away...
