One Health – Healthy DEvelopments

Bridging Borders to Fight Avian Influenza: A One Health Success Story in West Africa

Healthy DEvelopments — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 08:40:41 +0000

From July 8 to 12, 2024, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, became the epicentre of a united effort to combat Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). This multi-sectoral workshop emphasized collaboration under the One Health approach to safeguard regional health and biodiversity.

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Global Health and bodily autonomy- a short film by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Healthy DEvelopments — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 13:57:31 +0000

Poor sanitation comes with a cost – it affects the affected individuals' and populations' health status and their productivity. Zambia, for example, loses 1.3 percent of GDP due to public health impacts of poor sanitation which results in child malnutrition, illness and premature death.

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How hospitals in Nepal are making waste their business

Healthy DEvelopments — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 05:14:28 +0000

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, major hospitals across Nepal have set up environmentally friendly systems to segregate, treat and dispose of healthcare waste. The results? Cleaner premises, safer working conditions, no more burning of waste and welcome revenue from the sale of recyclables.

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“Breaking barriers” event at Tierpark Berlin places biodiversity conservation at the heart of One Health

Healthy DEvelopments — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:19:46 +0000

‘I can see the barriers breaking already’, said Prof. Thomas Mettenleiter, founding co-chair of the One Health High-level Expert Panel (OHHLEP), as he welcomed 120 invited scientists, decision-makers and implementers to “Breaking barriers: Advancing the One Health agenda with a focus on the environment” in Schloss Friedrichsfelde, situated in the large and green Tierpark Berlin.

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What does it take to put One Health into practice? A rabies prevention and control project in Cambodia tests out new ways of doing public health

Healthy DEvelopments — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 11:06:55 +0000

Every year as many as 800 Cambodians die of rabies following dog bites. Breaking the cycle of disease is possible, but only when human and animal health workers join forces. A German-supported project is working with Cambodian partners to jointly implement rabies activities in the public sector for the first time.

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A new bio-security lab is boosting Ecuador’s pandemic preparedness

Healthy DEvelopments — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:52:38 +0000

Why Ecuador’s government and health workers are determined to make their health system more resilient - and how German technical cooperation supports this endeavour.

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Protecting mothers and newborns against the negative impacts of climate change

Healthy DEvelopments — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:10:42 +0000

Climate change is increasingly recognised as serious threat to human health with pregnant women and newborns amongst those most at risk. This, and how to mitigate the effects, was the topic of a roundtable discussion at the World Health Summit in Berlin in October 2022.

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A critical juncture for SORMAS: from national to regional outlook and beyond

Healthy DEvelopments — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 14:34:25 +0000

SORMAS (Surveillance Outbreak Response Management & Analysis System) is increasingly recognised as a digital system that can provide policy-relevant data and management support across the One Health domains - not only at local and national level, but potentially at regional and global levels too.

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Seven top experts reflect on health and climate change

Healthy DEvelopments — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 08:46:29 +0000

A diverse group of researchers, activists, programme managers and practitioners from different sectors and parts of the world grappled with the question: ‘How can a holistic understanding of health guide a holistic response to the climate crisis?’

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A new momentum for healthy, green schools in Lusaka

Healthy DEvelopments — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 14:14:36 +0000

Since the start of the COVID pandemic, the Safe Back to School campaign has shown what’s possible when people come together around a shared aim. As COVID recedes, the campaign’s partners are seizing the momentum to broaden and deepen school health initiatives.

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