Today is World Health Day. A day to bring worldwide attention to the importance of global health and to reflect on 75 years of global health cooperation with the World Health Organization.  Today is an opportunity to recognize what we still need to achieve to improve global health and to get one step close to better  health for all. Around the world deaths from preventable causes continue to be among the leading reason of death, as of 2022 the WHO...
This weekend the world’s most powerful global leaders will convene in Germany for yet another meeting of the G7, facing a convergence of crises that have only worsened over the last year and are putting hundreds of millions of lives at risk.  And last Friday, ONE Canada was in front of Parliament Hill to tell Prime Minister Trudeau that we want him to go to the G7 Summit with a real plan to tackle these converging crises. Getting out of...
We have more than enough vaccines, others don’t. Africa is facing a COVID-19 crisis, cases are surging and the continent is heading towards a global catastrophe. Over the last month deaths from COVID in Africa have increased 80%. Only roughly 3% of Africans have received the first shot, and the continent is not on track to vaccinate 10% of its population by the end of the year. The WHO’s Bruce Aylward said this should be “a scar on all of...