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Newsletter 10.11.2017

Editorial

Dear Reader, The Healthy DEvelopments newsletter has a fresh look and a new format! From now on, it will come to you every 4 to 6 weeks, providing you with highlights from the Healthy DEvelopments portal. (Apologies for the empty issue some of you received yesterday due to a technical hiccup.) In this issue we cover the recent ‚Lessons for the Future - what East African health workers learned from fighting the Ebola epidemic in West Africa‘ conference and we report on a hackathon on urban health and a session on digital health and development which KfW and GIZ organised at this years World Health Summit. Don’t miss the feature about recent developments in the Ukrainian HIV response, or this short and impressive video clip: Loveness’ story about her volunteer deployment as a nurse during West Africa’s Ebola epidemic. Enjoy the reading! Your editorial team Karolina Luczak Santana and Anna von Roenne Current news topics Lessons for East Africa from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa During West Africa’s Ebola outbreak (2014-16) some 500 East African professionals from various disciplines supported their West African colleagues in responding to the epidemic. This conference brought together some of these professionals to share their experiences for the first time and to document the lessons learned so that these as a result of these can inform future responses to major disease outbreaks on the continent. More Loveness's Story: I fought Ebola and learned how to protect my country Loveness Isijock, a Tanzanian nurse, volunteered to help care for Ebola patients in West Africa. In this 4-minute video she explains what this experience taught her and why this matters for her own country, too. Watch Video What’s the way for­ward for dig­i­tal health in de­vel­op­ment? In­vest­ments in in­for­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy can strengthen health sys­tems and im­prove the de­liv­ery of health ser­vices. But in the rush to digi­tise, there’s a risk that the care­ful plan­ning and con­sul­ta­tions needed for sus­tain­able so­lu­tions get over­shad­owed. Find­ing the bal­ance is dif­fi­cult, but pos­si­ble. More KfW hackathon gen­er­ates in­no­v­a­tive ur­ban health so­lu­tions At this year’s World Health Sum­mit, KfW En­twick­lungs­bank or­gan­ised a two-day hackathon at which teams of young ex­perts from coun­tries around the world searched for in­no­v­a­tive so­lu­tions to ur­ban health chal­lenges. At the award cer­e­mony KfW Gen­eral Man­ager Joachim Nagel praised the three win­ning teams, say­ing that ‘the in­ter­na­tional com­mu­nity needs in­no­va­tions like these to tackle the enor­mous chal­lenges it faces’. More So­cial pro­tec­tion for peo­ple caught up in pro­tracted crises The num­ber of peo­ple forced to leave their homes has reached an all-time high. Fresh and prac­ti­cal so­lu­tions to ex­tend so­cial pro­tec­tion to peo­ple caught up in the world’s cur­rent pro­tracted crises were at the cen­tre of an in­ter­na­tional con­fer­ence in Brus­sels on 28/29 Sep­tem­ber, or­ga­nized jointly by UNICEF, Ger­man De­vel­op­ment Co­op­er­a­tion, EU Com­mis­sion and other part­ners. More The HIV re­sponse in Ukraine: Back from the brink Ef­forts to stem Ukraine’s HIV epi­demic suf­fered a huge set­back when so­cial un­rest and con­flict erupted in 2013 and 2014. While it has yet to re­gain its for­mer mo­men­tum, the HIV re­sponse is show­ing a sur­pris­ing turn­around, in part due to a joint aware­ness cam­paign that is chang­ing the way peo­ple think about HIV. More Connect with Healthy DEvelopments on social media:          Disclaimer    Site notice    © 2010-2017 Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development