We can #HEALtogether
Global Health Partnerships (formerly THET) has placed partnership at the core of our work for over 35 years. We recognise that the incredible strides and achievements made by the global health community would not be possible without collaboration, solidarity, and investment.
Introducing HEAL
In a time where partnership in global health is needed more than ever before, Global Health Partnerships has been leading the HEAL (Health Equity for ALL) campaign since 2021. By mobilising the NHS workforce and diaspora, amplifying Global South leadership, and utilising parliamentary channels in the UK and around the world, we seek to catalyse confident, principled, UK global health leadership with global health funding prioritised by UK government.
We invite you to join us in making change. To build stronger health systems. To prioritise health equity. To unite with your fellow health workers – wherever they are in the world.
It’s #TimetoHEAL. Together, we can make it happen.
Why HEAL now?
- More than half of world’s population (over 4.5 billion people) cannot access essential health services.
- Over 500 million people face extreme poverty because of health expenses, worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Top 25 countries with lowest life expectancy worldwide are in Africa.
- WHO estimates a projected shortfall of 11 million health workers by 2030, mostly in low- and lower-middle income countries.
- The distribution of COVID-19 illustrated huge inequalities, not least in the distribution of vaccinations.
The Covid-19 pandemic placed a spotlight on health inequities within and between countries. So too has it demonstrated that we are only as strong as we are united. It is against this backdrop that the UK Government cut aid spending by £4bn in 2021, and by a further 40% in February 2025. The damage caused by these cuts on the world’s most vulnerable cannot be understated. We must respond together.
- Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget cut to 0.3% of GNI in February 2025.
- After a year-on-year decrease of 21% in 2023, UK bilateral ODA for health fell to its lowest point since 2014.
- The USAID ‘stop-work’ order equates to about $70 billion funding stopped per year.
- USA withdrawal from the World Health Organization equals approximately an 18% decrease in funding per year.
It’s time to put the most vulnerable communities throughout the world at the front of the queue, not the back. It’s time to prioritise health equity. It’s time to HEAL.
Ready to Help HEAL?
Join our Health Advocates Network!
Open to health workers across the world, the Health Advocates Network is rooted in Global Health Partnerships’ long-term commitment to partnership in global health and to building stronger health systems in low- and middle-income countries.
If you are a global health enthusiast and want to add your voice in support of a healthier world for all, join our network today!
Action Pack for Change
You don’t have to be a campaigner or have advocacy experience to add your voice in support of global health investments.
Take a look at our Action Pack for Change which contains plenty of top tips, resources and guidance to help you challenge the status quo!
94%
of NHS health workers think that investing UK Aid in LMICs is important.
96%
agree that sharing clinical knowledge and skills globally can benefit us all.
94%
agree that health is central to human development and the reduction of poverty.
“I feel betrayed with the recent UK government decision to reduce international aid. We all live in a global village. It is not right for us to enjoy all prosperity when people in the world are dying due to lack of basic needs such as vaccines, clean water, and medicines for preventable diseases.”
Satyan Rajbhandari - NHS Doctor
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Meet our HEAL Partners
The Gates Foundation
This campaign is very generously funded by the Gates Foundation.
From poverty to health, to education, the Gates Foundation works to dramatically improve the quality of life for billions of people by building partnerships that bring together resources, expertise, and vision. They work with the best organizations around the globe to identify issues, find answers, and drive change.
Action for Global Health
We are delighted to be working with Action for Global Health (AfGH) to deliver the HEAL Campaign.
AFGH mobilises the UK’s biggest thinkers, advocates and researchers to ensure that the UK government and other key stakeholders renew their leadership and financial, programmatic and political commitments to global health.
