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A strategic approach to snakebite community engagement

This guest piece by Dr. Denis Kibira, Chief Executive Officer of DUMAIC Global Health and Coordinator of the Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA)-Uganda, is part of an informative series developed by…

8 November 2023

ASHR Protection Policies in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and DRC

Research Report | April 2023 | Download report By NANHRI and National Human Rights Institutions of Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and DRC The analysis of status of Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive…

National diabetes programme: Tanzania’s Transition

This report and supporting policy brief from the Addressing the Challenge and Constraints of Insulin Sources and Supply (ACCISS) Study examines the lesson’s learnt from Tanzania’s transition from a donor…

No taboos at Zambia SRH workshop

The Solutions for Supporting Healthy Adolescents and Rights Protection (SHARP) Project, funded by the European Union, is dedicated to improving access to adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) commodities and…

15 February 2023

Safiya’s 8 Secrets: learning about snakebite prevention through comic books

Since its inception, HAI’s Snakebite Project has developed an array of useful tools on snakebite prevention and first aid. To effectively equip snakebite-affected communities with knowledge about snakebite prevention, first…

25 November 2022

Snakebite Prevention: Safiya’s 8 Secrets

Snakebite Prevention Comic Book | November 2022 | Download PDF This new publication adds to HAI’s array useful tools on snakebite prevention and first aid and was produced in collaboration…

25 November 2022

Research Training for the SHARP Project in DRC and Burundi

As part of the Solutions for Supporting Healthy Adolescents and Rights Protection Project (SHARP), our Research Team, Janneke and Gaby, visited our project partners in the Democratic Republic of the…

26 October 2022

Advancing family planning solutions in Burundi

The Health Action International (HAI) team were in Burundi in September to formally launch our Multi-stakeholder engagement Approach to Family Planning in Burundi Project (“Solutions”), along with local partner Twitezimbere….

20 October 2022

Empowering children to live safely among snakes

Experiences from a school programme pilot in Kenya Kajiado County, one of the 47 Counties of Kenya, is a predominantly rural county in the semi-arid south of the country. On…

22 September 2022

Religion and SRH: Role of faith leaders in Zambia & Burundi

Policy Brief | July 2022 | Download PDF One aspect of the Solutions for Supporting Healthy Adolescents and Right Protection (SHARP) project is to map local faith-based approaches to adolescent…

HAI and Partners Launch New SRH Project

A new project, launched this week in Nairobi, sets out to improve the health and wellbeing of adolescents in the Great Lakes Region (Burundi, DRC, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia),…

HAI and Partners Launch SHARP Project

Press Release | 1 July 2022 | Download PDF NAIROBI — A new project, launched this week in Nairobi, sets out to improve the health and wellbeing of adolescents in…

Report – Community Engagement Meeting on Snakebite Envenoming

Health Action International (HAI) and the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Access Campaign invited community-based snakebite experts across the global south to participate in a two day virtual meeting in July…

14 December 2021

WHO Recommends Malaria Vaccine for Use

The World Health Organization (WHO) last week announced that it was recommending widespread use of the RTS,S malaria vaccine for children, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom…

13 October 2021

There is no UHC without Universal Medicines Coverage

Written by HAI Executive Director Dr Tim Reed This has been adapted from a blog previously published on this website to mark Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day 2020. Very many…

11 December 2020

FACT SHEET: Impact and Knowledge of COVID-19 and related measures in rural Kenyan households

Fact Sheet | 15 October | Download PDF Research carried out in Kenya by Health Action International looked at the impact of coronavirus—and associated measures to prevent its spread—on rural…

14 October 2020

HAI Statement on Improving Access to Insulin

Statement | 25 September 2020 | Download PDF Following a meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO), Insulin and associated devices: Access for Everybody, our Addressing the Challenge and Constraints…

25 September 2020

COVID-19 risks turning back the clock on years of essential development work

Over the years, governments in the Global North have, with varying degrees of success, provided commendable levels of support to help tackle challenges faced in low- and middle-income countries. More…

SRHC: Availability, Affordability and Stock-outs – Uganda 2019

Report | June 2020 | Download PDF Access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services and commodities plays an important role in improving the health of the Ugandan population. Currently,…

SRHC: Availability, Affordability and Stockouts – Zambia 2019

Report | 28 May 2020 | Download PDF Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) is an essential right that contributes to the human right to health in Zambia. It plays a vital…

Reflections on the World Health Assembly

Health Action International Executive Director, Dr Tim Reed, followed this week’s unprecedented virtual World Health Assembly with great interest. We asked Tim for some of his main takeaways from the…

COVID-19 And Its Far-Reaching Health Impacts in Sub-Saharan Africa

As the COVID-19 crisis continues to hold the world in its grip, more and more stories and prognoses are emerging about its impact on other aspects of life and health….

Health Action International Working from Home

Following the advice of the Dutch Government, Health Action International will continue to work from home until at least 28 April 2020. We are very much aware that we are…

HAI Follows Dutch Government Advice in Response to COVID-19

Following the advice from the Dutch Government and National Institute for Public Health (RIVM) in response to COVID-19 in the Netherlands, the Health Action International team is being encouraged to…

Statement to EB146 on Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property

Statement | 6 February | Download PDF HAI made the following statement to the 146th session of the WHO Executive Board, in which we addressed the progress of the Global…

7 February 2020

Dr Marg Ewen Receives the Helen Clark-JoPPP Award

The winners of the 2019 Helen Clark- JoPPP Award for Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice Research have been announced! We are thrilled that HAI Senior Projects Manager, Marg Ewen, is this…

Health Action International Comments on WHO Decision on Long-acting Analogue Insulin

Press Release | 10 July 2019 AMSTERDAM—Health Action International (HAI) today supported the announcement that long-acting analogue insulins would not be added to the World Health Organization (WHO) Model List…

Putting Access at the Heart of Medicines Policy – Annual Report 2018

Report | 10 July 2019 | Download PDF In the last year, Health Action International (HAI) has continued to respond to medicines policy issues at local, regional and international levels….

Breaking Down Barriers to Accessing Internationally Controlled Essential Medicines Key to Ending Pain and Suffering of Millions

Press Release | 7 June 2019 | Download PDF Global experts, gathered in Amsterdam this week at a meeting organised by Health Action International (HAI), agreed on a path to working together…

Snakebite Incidents, Response, & Antivenom Supply (Uganda)

Fact Sheet | May 2019 | Download PDF PURPOSE OF OUR RESEARCHSnakebite is a significant, but long-neglected problem that affects the lives of more than half a million people annually….