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Newsletter 23.04.2019

Editorial

Dear colleagues, it’s high time to get serious about waste management in the health sector, but how can Germany contribute? One conclusion of the Regional Conference of the GIZ Sector Network Health & Social Protection in Lilongwe on 26/27 March: ‘Let’s focus on problems rather than on sectors!’ would make it easier to move towards Planetary Health and the 2030 Agenda. Meanwhile, in Liberia, school girls discover health professions as career option. And in Cambodia, health service costing might revolutionise the health system. Last not least, these two proposals were selected to become GHPC studies in 2019. Enjoy the reading! Your editorial team Karolina Luczak Santana & Anna von Roenne Current news topics Reducing the environmental cost of saving lives The push to achieve Universal Health Coverage is expanding access to health services for millions of people worldwide. It is also fueling an exponential rise in healthcare-related waste which is harmful to both human health and the natural world. Joint action by global health actors, including German Development Cooperation, is needed to identify and implement sustainable approaches to waste management. More Resilient Societies: Ready for the Future! On March 26-27, about 120 GIZ health and social protection experts and counterparts from 10 African countries gathered in Lilongwe for two days of lively and substantive discussions. They grappled with a broad spectrum of current health and social protection system challenges – and left inspired, with new ideas about how to address them, cross-sectorally, in their ongoing work. More Broadening horizons Liberia’s health workforce is maldistributed across professional cadres, levels of care and geographical regions. To enable it to deliver quality health services to all Liberians, the Liberian-German Health Programme is addressing these imbalances through a life cycle approach that includes the introduction of school girls from remote areas to careers they may never have heard of. More What do Cambodia’s public health services cost and why does this matter? As Cambodia gears up towards Universal Health Coverage, a German-supported project aims at improving effectiveness and efficiency by determining the costs of public health services. Knowing these costs, differentiated by type of facility, will enable the Ministry of Health to realistically budget for services and to establish how much 3rd party payers should be charged for them. More Connect with Healthy DEvelopments on social media:          Disclaimer    Site notice    © 2010-2019 Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development