January 31, 2023
A new bio-security lab is boosting Ecuador’s pandemic preparedness
Why Ecuador’s government and health workers are determined to make their health system more resilient - and how German technical cooperation supports this endeavour.
December 9, 2022
Strengthening health value chains by partnering with the private sector in the SADC region
How and why German development cooperation invests, technically and financially, in local manufacturing of medical and pharmaceutical products.
December 8, 2022
A critical juncture for SORMAS: from national to regional outlook and beyond
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.
November 27, 2021
A moonshot for Africa’s health security: Co-creating Africa’s own vaccine industry
When health workers in African countries read the labels on the vaccine shots they administer - be they against measles or COVID-19 - they mostly find that they were produced on a different continent.
November 1, 2021
Vaccine Equity: Have we passed the test?
At the WHS 2021, a high-level panel considers achievements and shortfalls in the efforts of the international community to reach global vaccination targets
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COVID-19: health sector responses
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Supporting partner countries worldwide in the fight against COVID-19.
COVID-19 is the greatest challenge of our time, posing an existential threat to the health and livelihood of the world’s entire population, yet affecting each country differently. In record time, every single country has had to develop its unique response to the pandemic, be it in protective measures such as mask-wearing, handwashing and closure of locales where people are likely to gather, in informing and sensitising their population, in organising testing for the virus, in building up or restructuring their treatment capacities to deal with this unprecedented threat, or more recently in the roll-out of vaccination.
In these times of COVID-19, the resilience and epidemic preparedness of partner countries’ health systems can make all the difference between an epidemic under control and unacceptable loss of life, health and prosperity. German-supported projects are actively coordinating with other partners to support speedy, comprehensive and adapted responses to the pandemic in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
What do these efforts look like in practice? The articles, studies, podcasts and events assembled on this page document and illustrate how Germany supports the worldwide efforts against COVID-19.
Stories
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A new bio-security lab is boosting Ecuador’s pandemic preparedness
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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Strengthening health value chains by partnering with the private sector in the SADC region
How and why German development cooperation invests, technically and financially, in local manufacturing of medical and pharmaceutical products.
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A critical juncture for SORMAS: from national to regional outlook and beyond
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.
Events
Studies
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A software for disease surveillance and outbreak response
Insights from implementing SORMAS in Nigeria and Ghana