Covers a comprehensive range of health topics, including access to medicines, mental health, water and sanitation, nutrition, and war and conflict. This book also draws attention to the politics of global health and the policies and actions of key actors.

In an increasingly integrated and globalised world characterized by, among other things, new cross-border threats to health, widening disparities in health and access to health care and an unacceptable level of human suffering and premature mortality in developing countries, civil society actors are asking 'why is so little progress being made'? Like its critically-acclaimed predecessor, the second edition of the "Global Health Watch" covers a comprehensive range of health topics, including access to medicines, mental health, water and sanitation, nutrition, and war and conflict. Unlike other reports on global health, it also draws attention to the politics of global health and the policies and actions of key actors. Hence chapters on official aid programmes, including a dedicated chapter on the United States foreign assistance programme for global health; the Gates Foundation; the World Bank; and the Global Fund; and the World Health Organisation.