Health is more than the absence of illness

Our project focus

Health cannot be reduced to the provision of medical services. This is particularly true where people do not have enough food, are homeless, have neither education nor work. For medico, achieving the comprehensive right to health accordingly includes creating healthy working, living and environmental conditions for all. Together with our partners, we fight against unhealthy situations and for the right to a good and healthy life.

Brochure on Global Health

Brochure on Global Health

Global Health

Fighting conditions that make us sick. Brochure on medico's work in the field of global health: project partners, networks, interventions 2 MB
Mpox outbreak

Once again nothing learnt

Demo für die Aufhebung des Patentschutzes auf Medikamente, Berlin 2021

Experience from the coronavirus pandemic is being ignored. By Anne Jung. Read more

Global health

Not a bit wise

Dr. Lauren Paremoer

A review of global health policy four years after the outbreak of the corona pandemic. A conversation with South African health scientist Dr. Lauren Paremoer. Read more

From Gaza to Sri Lanka

Health as a target

Krankenhaus in der Ukraine

Hospitals and medical staff are highly protected under international law. But they are increasingly under attack. From Felix Litschauer. Read more

Health

Global pandemic, global vaccination (in)justice

The Pharma-Patent complex and the dispute over the waiving of Covid-19 vaccine patents. Read more

Mpox outbreak

Once again nothing learnt

Demo für die Aufhebung des Patentschutzes auf Medikamente, Berlin 2021

Experience from the coronavirus pandemic is being ignored. By Anne Jung. Read more

From Gaza to Sri Lanka

Health as a target

Krankenhaus in der Ukraine

Hospitals and medical staff are highly protected under international law. But they are increasingly under attack. From Felix Litschauer. Read more

Global health

Not a bit wise

Dr. Lauren Paremoer

A review of global health policy four years after the outbreak of the corona pandemic. A conversation with South African health scientist Dr. Lauren Paremoer. Read more

Health

Global pandemic, global vaccination (in)justice

The Pharma-Patent complex and the dispute over the waiving of Covid-19 vaccine patents. Read more

Global health

Project Funding 2022

  • Membership fees and programme funding / Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2)
  • MEDBOX - The Aid Library; open-source library / Missionsärztliches Institut Würzburg
  • Core and programme support / People's Health Movement (PHM) Global Secretariat
  • Promoting the debate on health systems in Latin America / PHM Global Secretariat
  • Bringing together stakeholders and sharing stories of change in Equinet's work on health equity / Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC) for EQUINET

Project Funding 2022: € 112,942.28

Projects – Projections

All articles on the topic of health

17.08.2023 A life spent fighting for a different world

We mourn our colleague Dieter Müller [1959 - 2023], who died unexpectedly on August 12, 2023 in Mexico.

20.07.2023 Care work is doing change

An interview on a legal case for the rights of Community Health Workers (CHW) and the future of care relationships

18.04.2023 „Small is beautiful, but big is necessary“

Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury (1941 - 2023) has died.

30.03.2023 WHO under construction

75 years after its foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO) seems to be in need of reform in many places. What steps need to be taken?

27.03.2023 No reconstruction

Flood-resistant construction will not help any more in Pakistan. A look back at prevention attempts

30.05.2022 Lessons from the pandemic

The Corona crisis has caused suffering around the world. At the same time, it has exposed the plight of health care and the misery of global cooperation. What needs to be done? Experts and activists draw health policy conclusions

30.03.2022 The Non-Waiver

Why the compromise proposal for the patent waiver on Covid vaccines is a problem for Africa. Interview with Dr. Lauren Paremoer from Cape Town.

22.03.2022 Too little, too late

Global vaccine equity? The negotiations on waiving patents could end in a lousy compromise.

13.09.2021 More Vaccine inequity

Promoting vaccine boosters before equitable access for all is unethical. By Dr Louis Reynolds.

01.09.2021 Reaching the Hard to Reach

A day at the mobile clinic of the medico partner organization PMRS in the south of the Gaza Strip. By Chris Whitman.

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