The Black Brothers: Poverty, Migration and Child Labour

Children in hazardous work - What we know, what we need to do

ILO-Report published

ILO "This report reviews the current state of knowledge concerning children in hazardous work and presents the case for a new focus on the issue as part of the wider global effort to eliminate the worst forms of child labour. The report highlights recent global trends while comprehensively summarizing the scientific evidence base related to health and well-being of working children."

www.ilo.org

Risky business: children at work

The Lancet on the ILO-Report

The Lancet "New data suggest that more than 100 million children are in hazardous labour worldwide and they face greater risks than do adults, but how helpful are the statistics?" Onome Akpogheneta reports for The Lancet.

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World Ageing & Generations Congress 2011

St. Gallen, 29 August - 2 September 2011

"The congress is a worldwide platform to share knowledge and experience, discuss and find solutions for questions pertaining to ageing and generations. During the congress experts and participants highlight the societal, economic, health and educational-political impacts of demographic change in Special Sessions, Plenary Panels and Side Events.The congress is targeted at individuals from business, health organisations, social services, politics, academia and non-governmental organizations."

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SRK-Tagung: Vielfalt des Pflegepersonals als Chance?

Bern, 15. September 2011

SRK Die 9. Nationale Fachtagung des SRK greift die aktuelle Diskussion über die demografische Entwicklung, den prognostizierten Pflegenotstand und die Migration von Gesundheitspersonal auf. (pdf)

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Eine Reise nach Kuba 2011: Projektbesuche, Tourismus und Politik

Kuba, 9. - 23. Oktober 2011

mediCuba Wie schon in den vergangenen Jahren führt mediCuba eine Informationsreise nach Kuba durch.Dabei besuchen die TeilnehmerInnen Projekte von mediCuba-Suisse (Onkologie und Palliativmedizin Havanna, Quartier Atarés Havanna, Prävention HIV-Aids Matanzas, Grüne Medizin Granma), Politik (Basisorganisationen), Tourismus (Monumente, Museen und Strände) und Freizeit (Musik, Tanz und Theater). (pdf)

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Symposium 2011: Health – a Human Right

Basel, 8 November 2011

Health is a human right: too often forgotten, this is the central issue of international health policy and health cooperation. And yet millions of people die each year in developing countries due to easily preventable diseases. This is a basic violation of the human right to health. In addition, women, minorities and marginalized people often have limited access to health care due to poorly functioning health care systems. That is why this year's Swiss Health Cooperation Symposium, which will be organized by the Swiss Red Cross and the Network Medicus Mundi Switzerland will reflect debate question how the human right to health could be strengthened in the Swiss Foreign Health Policy as well as in Global Health.

www.medicusmundi.ch

Gesichter Nicaraguas - ein Vortrag von Nathalie Bur

Selzach, 12. August 2011

INTERTEAM Die INTERTEAM-Fachperson Nathalie Bur ist zurück aus ihrem Einsatz in Nicaragua. Als Betriebswirtschafterin begleitete sie die Mitarbeitenden der Partnerorganisation La Cuculmeca sowie deren Zielgruppen – vor allem Kooperativen – bei der Vermarktung ihrer Produkte (Tourismus, Grundnahrungsmittel). Das nördliche Hochland, wo die Partnerorganisation tätig ist, war vor 20 Jahren Schauplatz des Bürgerkrieges. Ende Juli kehrte Nathalie Bur in die Schweiz zurück. Im Rahmen eines Vortrages wird sie von ihren Erfahrungen berichten. Dort gibt es auch Antworten auf Fragen wie: Wie sind und leben die Menschen in Nicaragua? Mit welchen Mitteln können Inhalte vermittelt werden? Was bewirkt ein Einsatz, der immer auch mit Spenden finanziert wird?

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The History of Health Care in Africa: Actors, Experiences, and Perspectives in the 20th Century

Basel, 12 -14 September 2011

HHSA Health in Sub-Saharan Africa has always been experienced, debated and pursued in a specific historical context. At the same time the history of health and health care in a specific local setting cannot be separated from processes on a larger scale. Neither diseases nor ideas and practices about health, healing and care stopped at colonial or national borders. This conference looks beyond the borders of colonial empires and national states by bringing together researchers with different temporal and spatial perspectives on the history of health, health care and medical research in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Swiss TPH: Allgemeiner Tropenkurs

Basel, Oktober-November 2011

Swiss TPH Der Allgemeine Tropenkurs (ATK) ist ein 8-wöchiger, ganztägiger Kurs, welcher auf das Leben und Arbeiten in Ländern mit extremer Mittelknappheit vorbereitet. Der ATK ermöglicht eine intensive Auseinandersetzung mit den globalen ökonomischen, ökologischen, kulturgeographischen und sozio-kulturellen Zusammenhängen und gesundheitlichen Aspekten des Lebens in den Tropen und Subtropen.

www.swisstph.ch

Rational Management of Medicines

Pretoria, 30 October - 11 November 2011

Swiss TPH "Course objectives are to enable health professionals to understand and apply the concepts and principles of essential medicines and rational medicine policy and management, to recognize the need for a national and international medicine policy environment and to gain practical field experience for rational medicine management."

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Health District Management: Priority Setting, Planning and Programme Design

Ifakara, 14 November - 2 December 2011

Swiss TPH "The course aims at introducing the basic principles of strategic programme and project management. It also focuses on practical aspects of the planning and implementation process, using the techniques of a simulation exercise and computer based support."

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Nahrung und Trinkwasser für Opfer der Hungerkrise

Intensives Ernährungsprogramm

SRK Im Dürregebiet Kenias und Äthiopiens unterstützt das Schweizerische Rote Kreuz (SRK) ein Ernährungs- und Trinkwasserprogramm. Insgesamt stockt das SRK seine Hilfe für die vom Hunger betroffene Bevölkerung in Ostafrika auf 1.2 Mio Franken auf.

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The Swiss official development assistance has fallen to 0.41%

2010 Annual Report on Switzerland’s International Cooperation

"The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) published the joint Annual Report for 2010 on Switzerland’s international cooperation. It provides the most important results in relation to Switzerland’s commitment to combating poverty, and contributions to the reduction of global risks."

www.eda.admin.ch

Krise am Horn von Afrika

DEZA-Factsheet

DEZA Das Horn von Afrika ist mit wiederkehrenden Naturkatastrophen, vor allem mit Dürren und Überschwemmungen, konfrontiert. Auch die langanhaltenden Konflikte im südlichen Somalia und der Somali Region Äthiopiens tragen zur Destabilisierung der Lebensgrundlagen der Bevölkerung bei. Aufgrund dieser fragilen Lage brauchen jährlich mehre Millionen Menschen am Horn von Afrika humanitäre Hilfe. Die DEZA hat ein Factsheet zur Krise am Horn von Afrika publiziert. (pdf)

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Breakthrough in the Fight against Malaria

A new malaria vaccine found to be safe, well tolerated and efficacious to reduce malaria in Tanzanian children

Swiss TPH The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, one of the important players in the malaria vaccine development field, announced today a major breakthrough in the fight against malaria, one of the major serial killer of children in Africa. They report that a new malaria vaccine conferred 50% protection to Tanzanian children against clinical episodes of malaria.

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Donors continue to hold back support from Global Fund

Report in The Lancet

The Lancet "Several donors to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria continue to hold back their contributions for this year. Some have yet to make pledges; others have frozen disbursements pending the outcomes of two ongoing reviews of corruption. The result is that resources available to the Global Fund for 2011 remain US$0·5 billion short of what the Fund was expecting for this year," reports Ann Danaiya Usher for The Lancet.

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Women on the Front Lines of Health Care

Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers 2010

PHM "This report contains the twelfth annual Mothers’ Index, which documents conditions for mothers and children in 164 countries – 43 developed nations and 121 in the developing world – and shows where mothers fare best and where they face the greatest hardships. All countries for which sufficient data are available are included in the Index. Some countries from the east, central and southern African region fared poorly in the Index, notably the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which was ranked 37th out of 42 least-developed countries (LDCs). The Central African Republic and Angola also performed poorly, positioned at 33 and 30 respectively. Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi and Uganda were ranked highest among LDCs, surpassed only by the Maldives in the first place. South Africa’s performance was mediocre, as it was ranked at 19 out of 38 less-developed countries, far behind Cuba, which was ranked first."

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The Millennium Development Goals Report 2011

UN Report published

PHM "Despite significant setbacks after the 2008-2009 economic downturn, exacerbated by the food and energy crisis, the United Nations notes that the world is on track to reach poverty-reduction targets, but also notes that progress has been inequitable. According to the United Nations. The number of deaths of children under the age of five declined from 12.4 million in 1990 to 8.1 million in 2009. The largest absolute drops in malaria deaths were in Africa, where 11 countries have reduced malaria cases and deaths by over 50%. New HIV infections are declining steadily, led by sub-Saharan Africa. Between 1995 and 2009, a total of 41 million tuberculosis patients were successfully treated and up to 6 million lives were saved, due to effective international protocols for the treatment of tuberculosis. In contrast, the report notes that progress has been inequitable: the poorest children have made the slowest progress in terms of improved nutrition, poor women and girls remain severely socially disadvantaged, and advances in sanitation often bypass the poor and those living in rural areas." (pdf)

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The State of Breastfeeding in 33 Countries

Report of the World Breastfeeding Trend Initiative

WBTi "The newly released report, “The State of Breastfeeding in 33 Countries: 2010, Tracking Infant and Young Child Feeding Polices and Programmes Worldwide” shows how babies are missing out on their foundation of development and basic protection from disease. Millions of newborn babies are still not receiving timely breastfeeding within one hour or exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months and timely and appropriate complementary feeding after six months along with continued breastfeeding, a period that is so critical for survival and brain development."

www.worldbreastfeedingtrends.org