Matt Gordon 🚵🏾

Health financing strategy at the Global Fund. Formerly, UK DFID / FCDO (Nepal; Uganda; Malawi; Sierra Leone; Sudan; strategy; multilateral financing policy).

[Matt Gordon 🚵🏾 @Matt_Gordon_UK]

@AW_Baker I guess they're just pointing out exactly that.

[Matt Gordon 🚵🏾 @Matt_Gordon_UK]

"In total African governments spent 50 times more on external debt payments than the entire UK aid budget to the continent last year."

[Patrick Watt @WattPatrick]

New @christian_aid report shows 34 African countries now spending more on debt repayments than on health or education - thank you @GordonBrown for writing the foreword #CAW24 https://t.co/pOcTXKHjeH

[Matt Gordon 🚵🏾 @Matt_Gordon_UK]

@kchalkidou Exactly.

[sarahthomson.bsky.social @sarahmsthomson]

Interested in sharpening your health financing policy skills?

Applications open for the #WHOBarcelona Course on Health Financing for Universal Health Coverage, 30 September - 4 October 2024

Apply by 10 May 👇🏾

https://t.co/Vg1eDHd0fI

[𝔻𝕣. 𝔸𝕙𝕞𝕖𝕕 𝕆𝕘𝕨𝕖𝕝𝕝 - DFAPH @laktarr001]

A good documentary by the ⁦@_AfricanUnion⁩ on what the ⁦@AfricaCDC⁩ was established to do and what it has done to secure #Africa’s #healthsecurity agenda.
#Agenda2063
#NewPublicHealthOrder https://t.co/kHhW87SC6u

[Health Systems & Reform Journal @HSRJournal]

In their systematic review encompassing 64 evaluations of health financing interventions in LICs and LMICs, Julia Watson, @abdo_yazbeck, and Lauren Hartel identified key features that pro-poor insurance schemes should have. Discover them here! https://t.co/hrUgVtQ9Ov

[James Packard Love @jamie_love]

#INB9 is coming to an end, without agreement on a text, and I'll illustrate the extent and nature of some of the divisions in this thread. 1/n

[The Global Fund @GlobalFund]

Au Burkina Faso, Les Héroïnes du Faso autonomisent les femmes et les filles à surmonter l’inégalité et l’insécurité.

Fondée par Farida Tiemtoré, l’organisation s’attaque de front à la violence fondée sur le genre et à l’accès à la contraception. #IWD2024

https://t.co/bFC7cPnmd2

[Harm Reduction International @HRInews]

.@HRInews ED @NaomiSBS denounced ongoing use of #deathpenalty for drugs; dearth of #harmreduction services and of funding of lifesaving policies. Calls for renewed attention by UN and states
@UNHumanRights

[Naomi Burke-Shyne @NaomiSBS]

Join us online now for the Intersessional Panel Discussion of the #HumanRights Council on Drug Policy and Human Rights #Geneva

⁦@HRInews⁩ will be calling for rights-based, evidence informed approaches to drugs and abolition of the #deathpenalty https://t.co/9GcuYPYGWl

[Africa CDC @AfricaCDC]

The 4th cohort of the @AfricaCDC – Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Programme is now open and accepting applications till January 30, 2024.
The 1-year fellowship is scheduled to commence in June 2024.
Apply today 👇 https://t.co/YI1BMEpvvz
#NewPublicHealthIrder

[Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance @gavi]

The Gavi Board meeting concluded with the establishment of the African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator, a financing instrument that will make up to US$ 1 billion available to support sustainable vaccine manufacturing in Africa! https://t.co/jrjFUvDQg1 @_AfricanUnion @AfricaCDC

[Ministry of Health | Rwanda @RwandaHealth]

“The health financing dialogue is an opportunity to focus on improving financial sustainability by advancing political advocacy.”

Dr. Kalipso Chalkidou, Head of Health Financing Department at The @GlobalFund

#HealthFinancing

[UK in Bangladesh 🇬🇧🇧🇩 @UKinBangladesh]

👏 Congrats to 🇧🇩 for eliminating Visceral Leishmaniasis (kala-azar), the 2nd Neglected Tropical Disease 🇧🇩 got rid of this year, following elimination of lymphatic filariasis. 🇬🇧 is proud to contribute to these successes through our health programmes & expertise.

[Rachel Bonnifield @rachelbnfield]

🚨The @CGDev Lead Poisoning program is Hiring!🚨

We're looking for a Senior Policy Analyst, based in either DC or London, to help us ramp up evidence-based policy outreach.

See job listing here 👇

https://t.co/R1EUNdZ788

[Andrew Mitchell @AndrewmitchMP]

UK publishing a White Paper to reset progress on international development and the #GlobalGoals, including tackling climate change. I want to hear from you what should be in it: https://t.co/7gPP0OttmN

[Matt Gordon 🚵🏾 @Matt_Gordon_UK]

@gamblingondev Congratulations Stefan!

[Matt Gordon 🚵🏾 @Matt_Gordon_UK]

@EconMitch I've been doing it for years.

[Ilona Kickbusch @IlonaKickbusch]

This should NOT be possible at a World Health Assembly. Could there be some rules or recommendations? #manels #WHA76

[Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office @FCDOGovUK]

The UK is co-hosting a pledging event on 4 May with the Netherlands to fully fund the @UN salvage of the FSO Safer oil tanker off the coast of Yemen.

Safer could break apart or explode at any time, unleashing an ecological & humanitarian catastrophe.

We need to act now.