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

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

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

Crisis of legitimacy

Sophie Harman

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

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

Crisis of legitimacy

Sophie Harman

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

Global health

Project Funding 2024

  • Event at the ‘WHA 77’ on global migration of health professionals / Medicus Mundi International
  • Core support / People‘s Health Movement (PHM) - Global Secretariat
  • Global Health Watch as a tool for movement education / PHM - Global Secretariat
  • Improving accessibility, equity and accountability for Universal Health Coverage in Kenya through community engagement / PHM Kenya
  • Health and Climate Justice in eastern and southern Africa / Training and Research Support Centre for EQUINET
  • Partner workshop: Struggles for health in times of repression and shrinking spaces
     

Project Funding 2024: € 125,483.54 (incl. support from medico-Stiftung)

Projects – Projections

All articles on the topic of health

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

30.03.2022 Corona Pandemic
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.