Digital monthly 10/2023

Healthy lives

Liberian healthcare workers in 2014. Medical anthropologists were on site during the Ebola outbreak that was happening at that time.

Medical anthropology

Medical anthropology: Global health and social inequalities

The COVID-19 pandemic was not the first incident to show how closely connected health issues are to global contexts and social inequalities. Medical anthropologists examine these connections in an increasingly interconnected world

by Hansjörg Dilger

20.10.2023

Meat vendor in Wuhan: the global Covid-19 pandemic’s epicentre was a wet market in this Chinese city.

Multilateral institution

WHO assesses how human health and natural environment are linked

One Health approach amounts to an appeal to reduce global inequalities

by Isah Shafiq

18.10.2023

Handing over emergency trauma kits to AoG’s Ukraine coordination team.

Medication supply

Pharmacists Without Borders is facing unprecedented challenges

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the organisation Pharmacists Without Borders has had to manage its largest emergency aid mission yet

In India, deadly disease is linked to deforestation

Where natural environments are healthy, the zoonoses Nipah and KFD are less likely to spread among humans

by Nayantara Narayanan

24.09.2023

An illustration prepared on behalf of One Health Colombia, a non-governmental initiative, for a conference.

Evidence-based policy

Global One-Health debate is not properly balanced

Top-down approaches dominate One-Health agenda in high-income countries, while bottom-up approaches prevail elsewhere

by Christina Pettan-Brewer

15.10.2023

Medication supply

Slum pharmacy in Buenos Aires

One of the oldest projects of Pharmacists Without Borders has supplied medication to people in Argentina for over 20 years

by Christian Splett

12.10.2023

In South Asia, bats transmit the Nipah virus.

Our View

Environmental destruction exacerbates health needs

One Health is a holistic approach with a bearing on many different policy areas

by Hans Dembowski

29.09.2023

Childaid orientation on nutrition and other maternal health issues in Ramechhap district, 2023.

Healthcare

Health education for communities in Nepal

More education on health issues is needed in Nepal, especially for women and girls. Local health centres and Female Community Health Volunteers play a crucial role

by Sattish Chandra Aryal