In the Middle East conflicts and COVID-19 have increased demands for mental health services – and made them very hard to deliver. A new study commissioned by GIZ on behalf of BMZ explores the potential of remote service provision.
An electronic patient register allows health workers in rural facilities to improve diagnoses and treatment and to contribute to, and use, the national health information system.
Thanks to the Drone and Data Aid project and its training academy, drones revolutionise access to medicines in hard-to reach rural areas of one of the world’s poorest countries.
Nepal plans to produce and deploy thousands of professional midwives across the health system to improve women’s access to quality maternity care. With support from Germany, midwifery education programs are now up and running – and the first graduates are already busy at work.
The Board of the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) just endorsed the Framework for the Global Fund Strategy 2023-2028. In a joint EU statement, Germany and partners emphasise the need for several strategic shifts to be spelled out in the Strategy Narrative in the coming months.
To enhance the quality of care provided at health facilities, a project explored, and built on, health workers’ motivations and cultural values related to care-giving – with surprising results.
A German-supported coordination mechanism, and one key advisor in particular, indicate a possible way forward with the big ‘4Gs’.
The global incidence of polio cases has declined by 99% since 1988, but eradication of this devastating disease has remained elusive.
On 10 June 2021, the last day of the High Level Meeting on the Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a new political declaration
At GIZ in Berlin Dr Eckart von Hirschhausen and Karin Kortmann in conversation about three global crises
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