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Health Inequalities
Everyone in the Global South should have the opportunity to make healthy choices, live healthy lives and access high quality health and care services.
Inequalities in power, money and resources can make people’s daily lives more challenging. As well as being unfair, health inequalities such as in mental health resilience and food insecurity are costly, putting a strain on employment and productivity, impacting on our economic potential and public services.
“Chronic and catastrophic disease remains one of the main factors that push households from poverty into deprivation. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) impose a large burden on human health worldwide. Currently, 63% of all deaths worldwide stem from NCDs – chiefly cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes. The cumulative economic losses to low- and middle-income countries from the four diseases are estimated to surpass US$ 7 trillion by 2025. Additionally, there continues to be underinvestment in the social circumstances and environmental factors affecting health. The job on HIV and health is far from done.
Recognizing the interdependence of health and development, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide an ambitious, comprehensive plan of action for people, planet and prosperity and for ending the injustices that underpin poor health and development outcomes.
SDG 3 aspires to ensure health and well-being for all, including a bold commitment to end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other communicable diseases by 2030.
From the:
Statement of the joint SDG Fund
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Sri Lanka at 75: safeguarding its health achievements
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Our Vision and Mission for a better world
Our Vision
Gunasekera Karunaratna (GK) Foundation envisions a Global South in which a commitment to the health and well-being of the earth and its peoples is fuelled by social, economic, and ecological justice, which has transformed production practices, consumption patterns, and economic and social relations to ones based on sustainability, equity, and dignity
Our Mission
Our mission is to empower marginalised people in South Asia to build sustainable alternatives that nurture human and ecological potential while challenging the root causes of injustice and oppression, guided by our four pillars of collaboration, integrity, justice, and liberation. We do this through grant making, social action, and philanthropic leadership.
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