Development and
Cooperation

Digital monthly 3/2020

Poverty and disease

Tuberculosis

Never disrupt treatment

To make the world TB free, funding must increase dramatically

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

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

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Public health

Paying a price

Even expensive vaccines prove quite cost-effective

Vaccines

A shot in the arm

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

Ebola

Five years later

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

Sanitation

“A supportive environment”

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

Health services

Good care for all

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

Our view

Systemic market failure

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

Staff and infrastructure

Emergency care in rural Tanzania

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