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

06.10.2025 Global health
Crisis of legitimacy

The global right is launching an attack on global health. Its success in this endeavour is partly home-grown. Interview with Sophie Harman

19.03.2025 5 years Corona
Control instead of care

Autoritarian measures characterized the state's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. In regards to health issues in many places, people had to looked after themselfs. By Felix Litschauer

20.01.2025 Halt the Decline
Halt the decline

"Stop the Pushback on Women’s Rights". An initiative aims to stop the global attack on women's rights in international institutions. Interview with Nicoletta Dentico.

16.01.2025 Shift to the right
Trump and Global Health

Under Donald Trump, the US is expected to withdraw from global health institutions, agreements and financing – with enormous consequences.

25.09.2024 Appeal for donations
Standing by the people of Lebanon

The war is escalating. Hundreds of thousands are fleeing from the bombs. medico supports partner organizations in caring for the refugees.

04.09.2024 Mpox outbreak
Once again nothing learnt

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

23.05.2024 From Gaza to Sri Lanka
Health as a target

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

27.03.2024 Global health
Not a bit wise

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.

07.11.2023 Health
Global pandemic, global vaccination (in)justice

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

17.08.2023 Obituary
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.