United is stronger

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Healthier lives contribute to healthier livelihoods – and stronger communities. But 1 billion people around the world lack access to basic healthcare. Diseases such as malaria still claim hundreds of thousands of lives, and millions of children never reach their fifth birthday.

New and different ways of working are required to stimulate innovation and create change that enables access to healthcare and helps people live healthier lives. But it is unlikely that one single organisation will have the skills and capacity to achieve this alone. Healthcare company GSK believes that working in partnerships, which bring together the resources and expertise of business, academics, NGOs and grassroots organisations, is critical.

To challenge. To changeYou can find out here more about how these partnerships work, some of the challenges they face, and the innovations they’re delivering.

In addition, a series of in-depth reports will examine these critical questions: What can be gained by increasing the numbers of trained health workers? What effect has the Ebola epidemic had on already overstretched health systems? How is GSK working with Save the Children in some of the world’s poorest countries? How can people who are best placed to take care of their families reduce the risk of children contracting malaria?

Health workers on the frontline add their own perspectives, looking at how they deal with these issues in their working lives.

And through live online Q&As you can take part in conversations about particular healthcare challenges – how to keep up the momentum against malaria and how to swell the ranks of frontline health workers in developing countries. Bring your questions – and experiences – to these debates.

While there is much great work already underway to challenge existing healthcare models in developing countries, we must all ask ourselves what more could be done to ensure that good health is a possibility for everyone.