Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 3/2020

Poverty and disease

Examining a patient in Assam.
Tuberculosis

Never disrupt treatment

To make the world TB free, funding must increase dramatically

Hospitalised tuberculosis patient in Cameroon.
Global challenge

Wake-up call to donors

Doctors without Borders bemoans that funding is declining for health programmes and calls for developing countries to be more proactive

Diabetes leads to severe other health problems – a patient in a Zimbabwean hospital.
Chronic disease

Costly diabetes drugs

Diabetes affects poor and rich people alike, but the poor suffer more where public health care is not up to task

More Articles

Immunising a Kenyan baby.
Public health

Paying a price

Even expensive vaccines prove quite cost-effective

Front-line Ebola workers in the DRC benefit from unlicensed vaccine protection today.
Vaccines

A shot in the arm

Vaccination can be a powerful tool in the fight against poverty in sub-Saharan Africa

Health worker treating Ebola patient in Sierra Leone in early 2015.
Ebola

Five years later

After Ebola, Sierra Leone is probably not properly prepared for another major health crisis

The “WASH in Schools” website.
Sanitation

“A supportive environment”

Progress in promoting awareness of water sanitation and hygiene in Filipino schools

Indigenous women rally for better health care in Brasília, the capital of Brazil, in August 2019.
Health services

Good care for all

The debate on what kind of health care best serves the poor

TB patient in Kolkata agglomeration.
Our view

Systemic market failure

Poverty and poor health are closely interrelated, so public health care is indispensable

Doctor Henry Marique Mwigani performs an ultrasound examination on a trauma patient.
Staff and infrastructure

Emergency care in rural Tanzania

Emergency care in rural Africa can be delivered even with limited resources