Health

This topic covers a wide range of issues related to the EU commitment to protect and promote health as a human right for all in the frame of the EC external cooperation. Support to the building of competent health systems, accessibility to basic health services, equity and solidarity values are just some of the principles guiding this cooperation. Maternal and child mortality, the crisis of human resources in the health sector, poverty related diseases and other issues may be addresssed under this topic.

Malaria Research: How Eaves Tubes are Saving Lives

Capacity4dev Team posted Information | 28 April 2015

“Most of the projects are quite successful because malaria research has come a long-way,” explains Inmaculada Penas Jimenez. She is a Scientific Officer working to fight infections diseases and global epidemics. Employed by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Research and Innovation,...

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Group: Global Health in EC development cooperation
Achieving Malaria Eradication: ‘The Devil is in the Detail’

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 24 April 2015

What is the best way to improve health in developing countries: by targeting (and hopefully eradicating) specific diseases, or by improving national health systems? For Veronique Lorenzo the answer lies in a combination of both.

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Eradicating Malaria Through Innovation: Where Next After 2015

Capacity4dev Team posted Information | 24 April 2015

On 27 January the Novartis Malaria Initiative invited development practitioners to an event at the European Parliament to discuss eradicating malaria through innovation. You can watch the event in the video below, a copy of the agenda with the corresponding timings in the video can be found...

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Group: Global Health in EC development cooperation
Lancement du projet Santé dans la préfecture de Mbomou, mis en œuvre par l'ONG Cordaid

Cristina Rigolli posted Information | 20 April 2015

Témoignage de Jean Laurent, Réprésentant du Fonds Bêkou en RCA Le 11 avril dernier, j’ai assisté, à Bangassou, à l’inauguration du projet Bêkou santé mis en œuvre par l’ONG Cordaid dans la Préfecture de Mbomou (Sud-Est du pays). L’essence du message délivré par les autorités confirme la pertinence...

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Group: Fonds fiduciaire européen pour la République centrafricaine "Bêkou" / EU Trust Fund for the Central African Republic "Bêkou"
MSF Scientific Day: Innovative approaches & technology in humanitarian action

Rahel Dette created a new event | 17 April 2015

07 May

From 7 May 2015
in London (United Kingdom)

Organised by MSF UK

*MSF Scientific Day is an opportunity to present and discuss research from our field programmes around the world.* MSF Scientific Day 2015 will be a two-day event on *7 - 8 May*, hosted at both the *Royal Society of Medicine in London* [1], UK and in New Delhi, India [2]. More informationa: http://...

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Group: innov-aid
Health via Healthy Roads

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 15 April 2015

It may seem curious to begin the fourth thematic month of the European Year for Development on Health by talking about roads, but as experience in Ethiopia has shown, improving transport infrastructure can make a big difference to people’s well-being.

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James Madhier commented on an article | 12 April 2015

Health via Healthy Roads

As someone who has been on the ground, I agree with this article completely. Health and roads are highly interrelated. Most roads are seasonal and this means many areas are cut off from the rest of the world during rainy season and other bad weather. It is refreshing to hear that an initiative as...
Published: FERN report on deforestation "Stolen goods"

Laura Giappichelli posted Information | 8 April 2015

Recently published document by FERN and UK Aid on deforestation available here: http://www.fern.org/sites/fern.org/files/Stolen%20Goods_EN.pdf

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Health via Healthy Roads

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 3 April 2015

It may seem curious to begin the fourth thematic month of the European Year for Development on Health by talking about roads, but as experience in Ethiopia has shown, improving transport infrastructure can make a big difference to people’s well-being.

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Fever Pitch: The Fight Against the Long-Term Effects of Child Hunger

Capacity4dev Team updated the Article | 1 April 2015

Eric Turyasingura chases after a ball made from plastic bags outside his mud-brick home in the mountains of southern Uganda. Yelling in his tribal tongue, Nkore, “Arsenal with the ball! Arsenal with the ball!” he jostles with his younger brothers for possession. The fame of the English soccer club...

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