MMI Network News, Reports and Resources
Medicus Mundi Spain was awarded the WHO Sasakawa Health Prize for its work in the transformation of public health systems
In a ceremony at the 69th World Health Assembly, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has awarded the Sasakawa Health Prize 2016 to Medicus Mundi…
Iraq, Nassirya 2008-2016: The bridge of trust
Contribution to MMI Annual Report 2015 When Emergenza Sorrisi NGO (past Smile Train) performed its first mission in Iraq, in 2008, in the American…
How to reaching sustainability in a rural health centre in Chiapas, Mexico
Contribution to MMI Annual Report 2015 Everyone who deals with this topic knows it: Ensuring financial sustainability of social services is very…
Scratch-off labels on pharmaceutical packaging
Contribution to MMI Annual Report 2015 Counterfeit drugs represent a major health risk for the public health and the individual patient. They lower…
…behind the headlines intertwined
Contribution to MMI Annual Report 2015 Burkina Faso is a land-locked country in Western Africa. The Human Development Index ranks it 183rd among 187…
Developing culturally appropriate health systems – key principles
Contribution to the Annual Report 2015 of the MMI Network Health Poverty Action has 30 years of experience in working to improve the health of…
Lighting up St. Paul hospital in Kashikishi
Contribution to the Annual Report 2015 of the MMI Network The story repeats itself frequently: In a remote place in Africa there is a poor hospital,…
Equitable access to quality healthcare for the most vulnerable: Vision or reality? Ex-post impact study
Contribution to the Annual Report 2015 of the MMI Network The core aim of the Swiss Red Cross (SRC) health projects is to enable equitable access…
Innovating the delivery of hypertension care
Contribution to the Annual Report 2015 of the MMI Network Gideon Dapaa, 49, a high school teacher from the Lower Manya Krobo District in the Eastern…
The global challenge of health workforce
Contribution to the Annual Report 2015 of the MMI Network Worldwide, there is a shortage of skilled health workers. Wemos advocated for health…
Let’s unite to end Tuberculosis
Contribution to the Annual Report 2015 of the MMI Network Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world’s most deadly infectious diseases, striking men,…
Growing demand for training in results based financing
For the past decade Cordaid has continuously been seeking to improve public service delivery through results based financing. In both health care…
Jan 25, 2016 – Jan 30, 2016, 138th session of the WHO Executive Board
Geneva, 25-30 January 2016. The WHO Executive Board is composed of 34 members technically qualified in the field of health. Members are elected for…
What is pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management?
"Millions of people around the world lack continuous access to essential medicines. Improving the supply chain management of medicines is a…
Health Poverty Action: Briefing papers on trade, tax and health
In December 2015, Health Poverty Action has published two new briefing papers which form part of a wider series looking at how the structural causes…
Implementation Research: Practice of NGOs and Political Challenges
Measurement and evaluation as well as looking for evidence: Implementation Research on projects and programmes is of increasing importance within…
UHC Day 2015: MMI take home messages
UHC Day 2015 was again an inspiring event. In addition to the simple promotional slogan along "UHC is right - smart - overdue", there have been many…
CWGH’s role at the 18th International Conference on Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa
The Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) played a critical and pivotal role during the just ended 18th International Conference on Aids and…
Zimbabwean government urged to unfreeze nurses’ posts
Harare, 25 November 2012. Parliamentarians, civil society members and health workers who last week met in Harare at the Community Working Group on…
Safe delivery in rural DRC: A motorcycle ambulance project
Contribution to MMI Annual Report 2014 Untill recently, the pregnant women of the Kinzamba healthzone (DR Congo) had to walk or cycle for tens of…
Solidarity begins beyond aid
It is good and just to give homeless people shelter for the night, wrote Bertolt Brecht. He added, however, that this will not change the world, or…
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