Why open health budgets could save millions of lives
The nearly 200,000 African citizens that participated in ONE’s You Choose campaign early this year told the UN and world leaders that investing in health, especially in rural areas, is amongst the most...
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Yvonne Chaka Chaka: Our leaders must keep the promise of Abuja
Yvonne Chaka Chaka is a ONE member, renowned South African vocalist and performer, and president of the Princess of Africa Foundation. She is also a Roll Back Malaria and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador/MDG...
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Benni McCarthy: ‘Join me and call on our leaders to open up health budgets...
This post is by Benni McCarthy, footballer and ONE member. As a young man growing up in Cape Town, I dreamed of becoming a professional footballer and representing South Africa. But too many of our...
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INFOGRAPHIC: How opening up health budgets will save lives
Thousands of ONE members have already joined our Open Budgets, Save Lives campaign to get African leaders to keep their spending promises on healthcare, and open up their health budgets so we can track...
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5 steps for African governments to end AIDS, TB and malaria by 2030
Girl with a bed net – a crucial tool to help prevent the spread of malaria. Photo: Morgana Wingard / ONE. Last week, leaders of the African Union member nations made an ambitious pledge to end the...
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How citizens in Tanzania and DRC are getting better health care and education...
Our Open Budgets Save Lives campaign is really picking up speed now with over 50,000 people adding their voice. Earlier this year we asked what you thought were the continent’s most important...
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Yvonne Chaka Chaka: ‘This is personal’
Our guest blogger today is Yvonne Chaka Chaka – Musician, UNICEF & Rollback Malaria Goodwill Ambassador, and Millennium Development Goal Envoy. Follow Yvonne on Twitter. As UNICEF’s Goodwill...
View ArticleOver 50,000 Africans call for leaders to open health budgets and save lives –...
I am excited to let you know that so far 58,411 people have joined the Open Budgets Save Lives campaign. Together we are calling for African leaders to spend 15% of public budgets on health and prevent...
View ArticleKeeping eyes on the public purse in Malawi
The perennial problems that dog the Malawi health sector are petrifying, and almost catastrophic. The K50 billion that was allocated to the health ministry in the 2013/14 budget last July represents...
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Meet ONE Africa Award 2014 finalists: BudgIT
Welcome to the second part of our “getting to know you” blog for the ONE Africa Award finalists. In this post we speak to BudgIT, an NGO specialising in financial transparency. BudgIT Why was your...
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