TABLE OF CONTENTS Project «Equal opportunities for health: action for development». Teaching and advocating global health at the European level  – Serena Foresi, Elisabetta Bertotti Preface – Adriano Cattaneo, Gavino Maciocco List of abbreviations PART I Development assistance in the field of health 1.1. Thirty years after Alma Ata: the development of global health policy – Eduardo Missoni, Guglielmo Pacileo 1.2. Guaranteeing essential health care for all  – Gavino Maciocco, Elena Pariotti, Angelo Stefanini 1.3. Official Development Assistance and health cooperation – Maurizio Murru, Fabrizio Tediosi 1.4. Can our heroes strengthen health systems? – Gavino Maciocco 1.5. Macroeconomic equilibrium and the right to health in Uganda: two conflicting logics? – Daniele Giusti 1.6. Humanitarian aid: charity, ideology, and deceit – Adriano Cattaneo, Nicoletta Dentico, Angelo Stefanini 1.7. Armed conflicts and humanitarian work – Pirous Fateh-Moghadam, Valeria Confalonieri 1.8. International aid in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) – Angelo Stefanini, Enrico Pavignani 1.9. Evaluating development assistance: key concepts and issues – Marianna Bacci Tamburlini, Giorgio Tamburlini 1.10. Italian development cooperation on health: contradictions and good intentions – Eduardo Missoni, Guglielmo Pacileo, Adriano Cattaneo 1.11. Chinese health cooperation in Africa – Paola Agnelli 1.12. International aid seen from the South – Sunil Deepak, Maria Hamlin Zuniga, Narayan Shrestha, Masood Yama, Victor Francisco Gomes 1.13. A perspective from NGOs 1.13.1. Médecins Sans Frontières – Kostas Moschochoritis 1.13.2. Doctors with Africa Cuamm – Dante Carraro, Giovanni Putoto 1.13.3. Emergency – Carlo Garbagnati 1.14. Migration of health workers – Maurizio Murru 1.15. Foreign nursing staff in Italy – Giancarlo Brunetti PART2 Current situation and updates on global health 2.1. Global health policies 2.1.1. Health and intellectual rights: the never-ending war – Nicoletta Dentico, Enrico Materia 2.1.2. Big Pharma and conflicts of interest – Luisella Grandori, Adriano Cattaneo 2.1.3. Global Public-Private Partnerships – Eduardo Missoni, Guglielmo Pacileo 2.1.4. Advance Market Commitments: a new mechanism to help development? – Nicoletta Dentico 2.1.5. Refugees, asylum-seekers and the right to health – Maurizio Marceca, Salvatore Geraci 2.2. The state of the world’s health 2.2.1. Malaria, Tuberculosis, AIDS – Luigi Cicciò 2.2.2. Neglected diseases – Marco Albonico, Lorenzo Savioli, Valeria Confalonieri 2.2.3. Oral and dental health – Patrizia Di Caccamo, Guido Benedetti 2.2.4. Cardiovascular Diseases – Alejandro Macchia, Simona Monte, Gianni Tognoni 2.3. Health systems 2.3.1. USA – Gavino Maciocco, Sara Barsanti 2.3.2. China – Daniele Brombal 2.3.3. Cuba – Maurizio Bonati 2.3.4. Brazil – Mauro Serapioni Authors