Sexual and reproductive health and rights – Healthy DEvelopments

Towards better care for mothers and newborns: lessons from Central Asia

Healthy DEvelopments — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:55:47 +0000

Health systems are often designed around institutions rather than people. For patients – especially pregnant women – navigating these systems can be complex, fragmented, and at times overwhelming.

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Empowering Girls in the Shadow of K2: How Nutrition Education Sparks Change

Healthy DEvelopments — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:49:06 +0000

Supported by the German Government through GIZ, the SOPRAN initiative is helping adolescent girls in Skardu (Pakistan) understand nutrition, improve their health, and adopt stronger eating habits. But the impact goes deeper: as girls begin making informed choices, they also gain the confidence to express their needs, influence decisions at home, and guide their peers. Through stories like Adila’s, the article shows how nutrition education is not only strengthening health but also nurturing a quiet shift in behaviour and voice—one that is gradually reshaping families and communities.

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“Many Voices, One Vision” at the 2025 International Dialogue on Population and Sustainable Development

Healthy DEvelopments — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:35:10 +0000

As progress on sexual and reproductive health and rights faces growing resistance worldwide, over 120 global leaders, activists, and experts gathered in Berlin for the 2025 International Dialogue on Population and Sustainable Development — not just to raise alarm, but to exchange solutions, strengthen alliances, and reaffirm a shared vision: rights, health, and choice for all.

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Girls in charge: How the Oky period tracker app empowers girls and helps to close the digital divide

Healthy DEvelopments — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:53:02 +0000

The Oky app gives girls of all abilities the information they need to manage their periods and answers their questions about sexual and reproductive health. As an inclusive digital solution created ‘by girls, for girls,’ it offers an entry point to practice and improve digital skills.

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Midwives and Nurses: Pillars of Libya’s Health System

Healthy DEvelopments — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 13:22:11 +0000

Once reliant on foreign health professionals, Libya is now strengthening its healthcare system by investing in local talent. By providing more modern and practice-oriented education, the country is equipping midwives and nurses with the skills to deliver quality care - ensuring better health outcomes based on capacity building.

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A call to action: A new social impact campaign tackles menstrual taboos

Healthy DEvelopments — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:34:53 +0000

A global campaign aims to tackle taboos, ignorance and misinformation about menstrual health and hygiene by using the award-winning German-Kenyan social impact film Impure as a catalyst for change.

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AIDS Conference 2024: BACKUP’s Dialogues on HIV & Human Rights

Healthy DEvelopments — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:57:38 +0000

BACKUP Health invited partners to explore strategies aimed at helping policymakers and civil society to safeguard access to HIV services for key vulnerable populations (KVPs).

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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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AIDS Conference 2024: Germany Unites Global Efforts to End HIV/AIDS by 2030

Healthy DEvelopments — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 13:14:20 +0000

“Break the stigma. Break the silence. Together we can end AIDS.” Germanys motto at the 25th International AIDS Conference

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Helping premature infants in Uzbekistan to survive – and thrive

Healthy DEvelopments — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 07:08:00 +0000

Participation in an international study on delivery room management has given neonatologists in Uzbekistan the chance to hold up a mirror to their own practice.

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