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.

Conference on Health Crisis Prevention, Preparedness & Response

Vincent Chasteloux created a new event | 10 December 2014

02 Dec

From 2 December 2014
in 1000, Brussels (Belgium)

AGENDA Moderator : Mr. Adriaan VAN DER MEER , Head of Unit – Unit B5, Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace, Nuclear Safety – DG DEVCO – European Commission 09:00-09:30 Registration and welcome coffee 09:30-09:45 General Introduction Mr. Klaus RUDISCHHAUSER , Deputy Director General, DG...

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Group: Health Crisis Prevention, Preparedness and Response
Focus on Ebola

Capacity4dev Team posted Information | 10 December 2014

The recent Ebola virus outbreak has taken the world by surprise. Infecting over 17000 people, and resulting in a reported 6070 deaths to date*, this outbreak has raised several questions. Were we prepared enough to deal with such an outbreak? Was the international community too slow to respond? How...

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Group: Global Health in EC development cooperation
Video: Take a Tour of the EU Mobile Lab in Foya, Liberia

Capacity4dev Team created a new WIKI page | 10 December 2014

Joseph Akoi Bore, who works in the Guéckédou Mobile Lab in Guinea, filmed the Foya Mobile Lab during a visit earlier this year. The video is narrated by Stephan Günther, the team leader of the EU Mobile Labs project and it shows how a mobile lab functions. The team that appears in the video was...

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Project: EU Mobile Labs
Video: Take a Tour of the EU Mobile Lab in Guéckédou, Guinea

Capacity4dev Team created a new WIKI page | 10 December 2014

Earlier this year, colleagues working at the EU Mobile Lab in Guéckédou, Guinea made a short film representing a typical day working in the lab. Each team stays in the field for four weeks, but they work long hours, processing 50-80 samples per day from morning until late at night. A typical day...

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Project: EU Mobile Labs
EU Mobile Labs: Part of the Solution to Tackle the Ebola Outbreak

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 9 December 2014

The Ebola outbreak has already taken many lives in Western Africa, and the long-term economic consequences for affected countries are likely to be dramatic. Such crises can easily spiral out of control and affect other parts of the world, including the European Union. So, what is the EU doing to...

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UPDATE 03.12.2014 - ECHO factsheet - Ebola in West Africa

Vincent Chasteloux updated the Document | 5 December 2014

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ECHO - the EU Humanitarian Aid And Civil Protection Office - published this factsheet on the current situation with Ebola in West Africa, and on the specific action of the European Union. The map below, which is extracted from the factsheet, shows where the three units of the EU Mobile Labs are...

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Project: EU Mobile Labs
Amouzou Bedi commented on a document | 25 November 2014

Promises to Keep - Crafting Better Development Goals

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are applied to all people (rich and poor) worldwide. We have ALL witnessed or been party to the failure of some Millennium Development Goals to achieve their assigned objectives. The struggles and upheavals around the world have highlighted the lack of sufficient...

Group: Capacity Development & Technical Cooperation
Promises to Keep - Crafting Better Development Goals

Amouzou Bedi uploaded a new Document | 25 November 2014

promises_to_keep_-_crafting_better_development_goals_1.pdf 1.31 MB

"The United Nations has always had lots of targets, goals, and declarations. You probably didn’t know, for example, that 2014 is the International Year of Family Farming and the International Year of Crystallography—or that you are currently living through the Decade of Action for Road Safety. Such...

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Group: Capacity Development & Technical Cooperation
Summary - Action Fiche - Health - 29 September 2014

Ileana Nicolau uploaded a new Document | 24 November 2014

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Group: Fonds fiduciaire européen pour la République centrafricaine "Bêkou" / EU Trust Fund for the Central African Republic "Bêkou"
Premières réunions du Conseil d'administration et du Comité de gestion du Fonds Bêkou / First meetings of Bêkou's Strategic Board and the Operational Committee

Ileana Nicolau updated the event | 24 November 2014

29 Sep

From 29 September 2014
in Bruxelles (Belgium)

Organised by European Union

Le 29 septembre 2014 un premier set d'actions a été choisi dans les secteurs de la santé, du genre et de la réhabilitation urbaine.

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Group: Fonds fiduciaire européen pour la République centrafricaine "Bêkou" / EU Trust Fund for the Central African Republic "Bêkou"

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