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.

Health for all

Implementing the Right to Health in the Post-2015 Agenda

In the past decades a significant progress has been made in raising awareness for the need to form a universal health approach. Social movements and academic experts have been pushing forward the global health agenda. Read more

G20 Summit & Global Health

Control or Prevention?

Symposium of the German Platform for Global Health (DPGG). Berlin | 15th May 2017 | Henriette-Herz-Platz 2 (DGB) |11 am to 5 pm. Read more

From Charity to Solidarity

Global Social Protection Scheme

There is a growing consensus that effective public social protection schemes are essential to reduce health and other social inequalities. Read more

The fight against Ebola

A matter of human rights

The weakness of the local social infrastructures has fostered the deadly Ebola epidemic. About the medico partner NMJD’s work on public health education and fighting exclusion. Read more