Campaign blog entries tagged with 'Health'

Taking the high road on health – Feb 25

Following her visits to Germany and Italy Dorothy Ngoma, our Oxfam champion from Malawi, visits Scotland to talk about public healthcare issues The first stop of the Scottish leg... more

Tags: Dorothy Ngoma health health and education Malawi Oxfam GB Oxfam Scotland public first public health first .

Putting public health first – Feb 12

Today I ate lunch on a park bench looking at the White House. I'm in sunny Washington DC for the launch of our new briefing paper. It looks at... more

Tags: Blind optimism for all health health and education Nancy Holden public first .

Downing Street gets giant, knitted delivery – Sep 22

This March, Oxfam supporters began creating a giant, knitted blanket to bring attention to the lack of decent maternal medical care in poor countries. On 17 September, more than... more

Tags: Downing Street health health and education knitting maternal mortality Sarah Brown .

Knitters take to the streets – Aug 11

A few months back we posted an article on our blog about how we're creating a giant, knitted petition to highlight the need for better maternal care for mums... more

Tags: health health and education knit knitting leeds manchester maternal mortality .

The world is watching and won't look away – Jul 10

It's the end of the G8 summit in Japan and 6 days of determined, gut busting, and sleep deprived campaigning has come to an end. Oxfam Policy Advisor Max Lawson... more

Tags: climate change food crisis G8 G8 2008 health health and education japan .

G8 warm words must not turn into hot air – Jul 8

As the second day of the G8 Summit draws to a close, it's been a day of warm weather and warm words in Japan. In the midst of the... more

Tags: aid climate change G8 G8 2008 health health and education japan .

Big bamboo makes big impression at Number 10 – Jul 3

Having spent all of last weekend taking in the rays and watching Glastonbury - or at least the best bits from the Oxfam and Greenpeace video bloggers - it's... more

Tags: aid climate change food crisis G8 G8 2008 health health and education japan .

All eyes on Japan as G8 countdown begins – Jun 26

For the last few months, people throughout the UK have been hanging messages to the G8 from Japanese Tanabata trees.The petitions are being collected. The Japanese phrase books are... more

Tags: aid bill nighy climate change G8 G8 2008 health health and education japan .

People power prevails in the Philippines – May 15

Some of the issues Oxfam works on aren't that simple. But as things go, access to cheap medicines is a fairly simple one - no one should have to make... more

Tags: access to medicines health Health and Education Philippines .

When is a promise not a promise? – Apr 8

We all break promises every now and then. There can't be that many of us out there who've promised to show up for a friend's birthday, or a get-together... more

Tags: Development Ministers meeting education for all G8 health Health and Education .

Students stir it up at Downing Street – Mar 18

Regular visitors to Oxfam's website might recall that back in December we launched an online action to coincide with World AIDS Day. The action was calling for the UK Government... more

Tags: AIDS Barbara Stocking Downing Street health HIV Number 10 Stop Aids Campaign UK Government World AIDS Day .

Wanted: knitting activists to demonstrate some purling power – Mar 17

Update As fellow knitters, we'd love it if you came along and had a look at the fantastic work that knitters up and down the country have grafted.Join us for... more

Tags: education health knit knitting leeds .

Poorer if you're a woman? – Mar 7

We live in an unequal world. There is wealth everywhere, but millions of people still go hungry, don't have access to education, or die of diseases we can prevent.... more

Tags: education health international women day .

Thousands of carnations to mark World AIDS Day – Dec 3

If you saw the news last weekend, read a paper, or logged on to the Web, you'll have struggled to miss the coverage of the 20th World AIDS Day, which... more

Tags: Education Health HIV World AIDS Day .

Brown and Merkel: a healthy partnership – Aug 24

Despite what you might think, Gordon Brown's meeting with Angela Merkel yesterday was more than just a jolly to Wembley to watch the old arch-rivals England and Germany slog it... more

Tags: Angela Merkel Gordon Brown Health International Partnership .