Gesundheit, Medizin
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

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

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Our View

Environmental destruction exacerbates health needs

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

Brain drain

Underpaid and overworked health workers in Nigeria

Due to underpayment and overload, thousands of trained health workers are leaving Nigeria to find employment abroad

Zoonoses

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

Water pollution

Humanity needs more and better wastewater treatment

The European Investment Bank assesses the risks of microplastics and micropollutants

Patriarchal attitudes

How family planning sometimes depends on church or mosque

In West Africa, some faith-based networks promote demographic change

Basic needs

At current trends, water SDG will not be achieved

UN states that water management must improve internationally

Nutrition

Boys face undernutrition too

While research indicates that girls and women are particularly affected by hunger, boys and men must not be forgotten too

Health

Malawi is encouraging women to screen for cervical cancer

Due to religious belief and culture, many women in Malawi do not want to go to hospital and be screened for cervical cancer

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Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.