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
Global Health

Ebola Is A Political Failure

Einem Junge wird Fieber gemessen.

Once again, Ebola has East and Central Africa in its grip, and once again it is being treated as a natural disaster, with no social causes. But Ebola is a political event.

Bangladesh

On their own initiative

Gesundheitsversorgung von Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK) in Bangladesch

medico partners have launched collective health insurance for textile workers in a model project. By Andreas Wulf

Global Health

MAGA meets Health

Nyumbani Children's Home, Karen district of Nairobi, Kenia Februar 2025

Since leaving the WHO, the US has been pursuing its own brand of health policy on the African continent

Whoever causes damage is liable

Climate Cost Case Pakistan - Polluters have to pay

43 farmers from Pakistan demand compensation from RWE and Heidelberg Materials for climate damage

Global Health

Ebola Is A Political Failure

Einem Junge wird Fieber gemessen.

Once again, Ebola has East and Central Africa in its grip, and once again it is being treated as a natural disaster, with no social causes. But Ebola is a political event.

Global Health

MAGA meets Health

Nyumbani Children's Home, Karen district of Nairobi, Kenia Februar 2025

Since leaving the WHO, the US has been pursuing its own brand of health policy on the African continent

Bangladesh

On their own initiative

Gesundheitsversorgung von Gonoshasthaya Kendra (GK) in Bangladesch

medico partners have launched collective health insurance for textile workers in a model project. By Andreas Wulf

Whoever causes damage is liable

Climate Cost Case Pakistan - Polluters have to pay

43 farmers from Pakistan demand compensation from RWE and Heidelberg Materials for climate damage

Global health

Project Funding 2025

  • Research on ‘Non-profit pharmaceutical production’ / BUKO Pharmakampagne – Gesundheit
  • Programme funding / Geneva Global Health Hub, G2H2
  • Campaign against the anti-feminist attack on health / Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2)
  • Core and programme support / People’s Health Movement – Global Secretariat (PHM Global)
  • From knowledge to action: Strengthening health literacy and equity through citizen participation in the context of health reform in Kenya / People’s Health Movement Kenya (PHM Kenya)
  • Promoting health equity and climate justice in commercial practices in Eastern and Southern Africa / Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC) 

Project Funding 2025: € 99,104.38

Projects – Projections

All articles on the topic of health

20.07.2023 South Africa
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 Obituary
„Small is beautiful, but big is necessary“

Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury (1941 - 2023) has died. By Dr. Andreas Wulf

30.03.2023 Global health
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 Climate justice
No reconstruction

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

16.02.2023 Alîkariya Mîrovi – Bê Sînor

Bangewaziya sînemakarên navnetewî li ser erdheja Tirkiye û Sûriyê.

16.02.2023 Sınır tanımayan yardım

Türkiye ve Suriye’deki deprem felaketi üzerine uluslararası sinemacılardan bir çağrı.

16.02.2023 Help without borders

International statement by filmmakers on the earthquake in Syria and Turkey.

27.09.2022 Syria/Turkey
One year after the earthquake

There is still dire need in the earthquake regions – also because Ankara and Damascus are instrumentalising aid.

27.09.2022 Donations: Earthquake emergency aid

medico partners in northern Syria and Turkey are providing emergency aid after the devastating earthquake. Support them now with a donation!

30.05.2022 Covid-19
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