In an increasingly integrated, globalized world with new cross-border threats to health, widening disparities in both 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 by global health actors? like its critically acclaimed predecessor, the second edition of  Global Health Watch covers a comprehensive range of 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. Global Health Watch 2 include  chapters on the United States foreign assistant programme, the Gates Foundation, the World Bank, the World Health Organization and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, turberculosis and Malaria. Global Health Watch 2 is not an educational resource for health professionals and activists, it also makes clear the need for global health  advocates to engage in lobbying key actors to do better and to do more, whilst resisting those that do harm.