The 7th AU–EU Summit delivered welcome language on fairer finance, stronger health systems and youth engagement, but stopped short of concrete commitments. Key gaps remain on youth mobility and global health funding. As leaders move to draft the implementation plan, ONE will keep pushing to turn these promises into real action for young people.
Ciara Kristensen
For millions of people worldwide, access to essential medicines and healthcare can make the between life and death, and between a life constrained by illness or one filled with possibility. When communities are protected from infectious diseases, people can work, children can go to school, and economies can thrive.
Over the past two decades, the world has made remarkable progress in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria – progress largely made possible by the Global Fund to Fight...
This is a milestone year: the African Union–European Union partnership turns 25 at the same time as a generation of young people who have grown up alongside it. In November, leaders from both continents will gather in Luanda, Angola for the sixth AU–EU Summit.
They will be marking a quarter century of cooperation that began on April 3, 2000, when the first summit met in Cairo, Egypt. In 25 years, there have been real wins: Child mortality has dropped. Access...