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Aug 14, 2016

Working in Fragile Contexts and Building up Resilient Health Systems

Medicus Mundi Schweiz Symposium 2016 - To end preventable child and maternal deaths, create an AIDS-Free Generation, and protect communities against infectious diseases such as Ebola, we need effective, functional health systems that can deliver essential health services to those in need. International health organisations are more and more obliged to work in fragile contexts where the environment is marked by instability, the public structures are weak or quick to collapse and the rule of law is lacking.

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Oct 26, 2016

How to Best Apply a Human Rights-based Approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health

In recent years we have seen a renewed global commitment to a human rights-based approach to development and, particularly to the universal realization of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). There is a compelling level of evidence that the human rights-based approach has contributed to health gains of women and children.

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Aug 14, 2016

Building on Success – Malaria Control and Elimination

Swiss TPH - The Swiss TPH Winter Symposium 2016 invites medical and health sector specialists to review and discuss the history, successes and future of Malaria Control and Elimination.

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