Health

Health is more than the absence of illness. 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. Together with our partners, we fight against unhealthy situations and for the right to a good and healthy life.

South Africa

Community Health Workers start raising their voice

“We have been doing this work for so many years and we are still called volunteers”. That’s why Community Health Workers in South Africa get organised. Read more

Primary Health Care

No prescription for Medicine for the Poor

40 years ago, the World Health Organization tried to materialize the Right to Health. Read more

World Health Organization

In the Stranglehold

70 years ago, the World Health Organization was founded. Today the WHO is chronically underfinanced and remains dependent of vested interests both from member states and private actors. Read more

Poverty & Health 2018

The World Health Organization at the crossroads

At stakes are the World Health Organisations independence, her legitimacy and her ability to continue to be the leading institution on Global Health as enshrined in her constitution from 1948. medico-Debates at the congress Poverty & Health, 21 march 2018 Read more

South Africa