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.

Obituary

„Small is beautiful, but big is necessary“

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

Climate justice

No reconstruction

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

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? Read more

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 Read more

Obituary

„Small is beautiful, but big is necessary“

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

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? Read more

Climate justice

No reconstruction

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

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 Read more

Projects – Projections

All articles on the topic of health

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.

31.05.2021 Lost in (virtual) space

How to move forward in the pandemic? Geopolitical conflicts, the interests of rich countries and the exclusion of civil society make it difficult for the world to come together. By Dr. Andreas Wulf.

25.05.2021 Strong voice

South African health activist Lydia Cairncross spoke about the Covid-19 situation and counterstrategies at the Poverty and Health conference. By Vicky Lessing.

12.05.2021 Now or never

Those who don’t want to talk about restrictions to the patent system should not speak of global solidarity. A year in the grip of a pandemic has brought the fractures in the world into sharp relief - and called us to action. By Anne Jung

12.05.2021 Essential

Their perseverance has paid off: In the midst of the pandemic, community health workers have won a major victory in their fight for recognition and rights. By Usche Merk

12.04.2021 A dictate of reason

Health activists on the topic of patent protection and global ways out of the pandemic. By Julian Toewe.

11.03.2021 "It's a pandemic of inequality"

Today marks the one-year anniversary of when the WHO declared the coronavirus a “pandemic”. We spoke with partners from the Global South about their experience, vaccine patents and the TRIPS waiver.

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