Antimicrobial resistance is now one of the biggest challenges to global public health. German development cooperation has been working to tackle the problem in Liberia – how can the lessons learned be carried forward?
A unique alignment of development partners working together over the last 10 years has supported major improvements in some countries and led to greater momentum for WASH in Schools.
‘Clicktivism‘ is proving an effective tool for challenging harmful practices and for empowering young women in Nepal.
Nearly a quarter of the world’s population suffers from just 20 profoundly disabling tropical diseases, that have largely managed to stay ‘under the radar’. Germany is a major player in a fresh global effort to shine a light on the Neglected Tropical Diseases and overcome their ravages.
In a bid to end open defaecation, India has built more than 100 million toilets since 2014. But to protect human health and the environment, cities have to safely manage what comes out of them. Shit Flow Diagrams have emerged as a key tool to help them plan and monitor progress.
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.
In rapidly growing cities in Africa and Asia, the sanitation needs of the very poorest are often neglected – to the detriment of public health. By visualising how excreta is managed as it moves through a city, Shit Flow Diagrams can help municipal authorities to prioritise investments where they are needed most.
One Health has traditionally focused on collaboration between human and animal doctors. Panellists at the World Health Summit argued for a paradigm shift to put communities and their natural environments at the center. Four concrete One Health projects show what this can look like in practice.
At GIZ in Berlin Dr Eckart von Hirschhausen and Karin Kortmann in conversation about three global crises
In an interview with Healthy DEvelopments in March 2021, Dr Maria Flachsbarth outlined in some detail the thinking and motivations behind the One Health approach pursued by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
