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Empowering health workers in Zimbabwe to advance universal health coverage during COVID-19

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Voices & Views

The EU has been supporting the global fight against COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, and it is committed to making national health systems more resilient. Partner countries have faced many challenges including the...

Africa
Zimbabwe
Health
Health Systems Strengthening
Universal health coverage - equity

Couverture médiatique de la COVID-19 en Afrique de l'Ouest : s'adapter et se réinventer

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Voices & Views

Plus d'un an après son déclenchement, la pandémie de coronavirus continue de préoccuper la communauté internationale. Les journalistes et les médias ont été au cœur de cette pandémie pour informer leurs différents publics. Entre...

Africa
Burkina Faso
Senegal
Democracy
Health

Media coverage of COVID-19 in West Africa: adapting and reinventing

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Voices & Views

Over a year after its outbreak, the coronavirus pandemic continues to concern the international community. The media have been at the heart of this pandemic – informing their different audiences. Between the risk of exposure to...

Africa
Burkina Faso
Senegal
Democracy
Health
Group of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo

A Whole-of-Society Approach for a new Africa-Europe Alliance

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Voices & Views

On 5 April 2019, the European Political Strategy Centre (EPSC) and the Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development(DG DEVCO) of the European Commission organised a workshop with 30 representatives of...

Worldwide
Africa
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Agriculture & Rural Development
Agricultural education/training and Research
Civil Society
+3
Citizen participation
Non-state actors
Health

Tackling malnutrition in all its forms

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Voices & Views

Ending hunger and malnutrition by 2030 will require approaches that go beyond targeting only stunting and wasting – agreed the participants of the Nutrition Seminar organised in March by the European Commission in Brussels.

Worldwide
Africa
Chad
+1
Kenya
Development Effectiveness
Children and Youth
Health
+3
Health in fragile contexts
Nutrition and health
Reproductive health care

Many paths, one direction: Strategies for achieving Universal Health Coverage

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Voices & Views

Each year, nearly 100 million people find themselves pushed into extreme poverty because of health-related expenditures. Capacity4dev spoke to health programme managers at the EU Delegations to Nigeria, Ethiopia, South Africa and...

Africa
Nigeria
South Africa
+4
Ethiopia
Asia
Timor-Leste
Oceania
Health
Health policies & policy dialogue
Health Systems Strengthening
+1
Universal health coverage - equity

How the EU supports partner countries in achieving Universal Health Coverage

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Voices & Views

In the second part of our series on Universal Health Coverage, we look at how the EU is supporting partner countries achieve UHC, through mechanisms like the IHP for UHC 2030, the UHC Partnership, and the SPHIP programme.

Worldwide
Africa
Uganda
Health
Health financing
Health policies & policy dialogue
+3
Health Systems Strengthening
Private Sector
Public Private Partnerships

No Health, or Inclusive Development, Without Mental Health

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Voices & Views

Depression affects over 300 million people around the world, the majority in lower and middle-income countries. Living in poverty exposes people to a barrage of risk factors for mental illness, and it’s a vicious cycle: people...

Worldwide
Africa
Guinea
Health
Health Systems Strengthening
Mental health

The Higher Education AIDs Programme in South Africa: A Real Force for Transformation

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Voices & Views

Development projects and programmes aim to change lives around the world using various methods from technical assistance to capacity development. But what actually happens when a project ends and the money is withdrawn from one...

Africa
South Africa
Development Effectiveness
Health

A firmer future for family planning in Zambia's remotest communities

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Voices & Views

Marie Stopes Zambia's (MSZ) innovative family planning project is coming to an end of its funding (around €750,000) from the European Union. However, MSZ plans to continue delivering family planning services in 2016 in conjunction...

Africa
Zambia
Gender
Health