Global Health – One Health

Creating resilient health systems

Health is a prerequisite for a self-determined life. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports countries and institutions around the world in making health systems more resilient and in providing people with better health care. The ways it does so include by promoting training of health workers, by strengthening health services structures, by expanding health services for girls and women and by fostering effective treatment methods.

In 2022 alone, GIZ helped 120 million patients to benefit from improved health services. With GIZ's support, 300 million people have benefited from improved health insurance coverage.

Bringing together climate change, biodiversity and health

More than three-quarters of all emerging human infectious diseases originate in the animal world. Inadequate nature conservation and shrinking habitats are bringing humans and animals critically close to one other. GIZ pools its long-standing experience in the fields of health, food security, climate change adaptation and biodiversity conservation in order to prevent the risk of health crises through interdisciplinary cooperation.

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Global solutions for fair healthcare

Diseases do not stop at national borders. International commercial and passenger transport, which is growing steadily brings with it the threat of pandemics. GIZ supports regional organisations in developing cross-border infection protection plans. Mutual learning serves as a basis for controlling and combating disease outbreaks and for fair health care. An example of this is International Hospital Partnerships programme, in which health personnel from Germany and 70 other countries exchange expertise.

Protecting more people through vaccination

GIZ supports partner countries in providing their populations with sufficient vaccine doses against dangerous diseases and in providing information about the risks. To help contain pandemics more quickly, it is also strengthening the development and production of vaccines in Africa and is committed to the equitable distribution of vaccines worldwide.

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Good health made simple: all vaccinations at a glance

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Foto von Anna Sophie Herken, Vorstandsmitglied der GIZ GmbH

Indonesia: Saving forests via smartphone

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Foto von Anna Sophie Herken, Vorstandsmitglied der GIZ GmbH

Consultation with Dr Chatbot

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Foto von Anna Sophie Herken, Vorstandsmitglied der GIZ GmbH

Fast procedures, greater efficiency: digital justice in Mongolia

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Ghana: a place for innovation

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Die Bäuerin Ebari Lomeri steht in einem Gewächshaus in Nordkenia.

Health and gender: how we all benefit from digital innovations

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‘Using artificial intelligence to improve living conditions’

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Eine indigene Frau erntet im ecuadorianischen Wald eine Kakaofrucht.

Malawi: the dream job of a drone pilot

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Die albanische Moderatorin Fatma Haxhialiu, eine Frau mit blonden Locken, lächelt fröhlich in die Kamera, im Hintergrund eine Gruppe von männlichen Jugendlichen

Secure and clean energy for 30,000 people in Nepal

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A new app for social security benefits applications

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Die albanische Moderatorin Fatma Haxhialiu, eine Frau mit blonden Locken, lächelt fröhlich in die Kamera, im Hintergrund eine Gruppe von männlichen Jugendlichen

Harnessing mobiles: making insurance digital and mobile

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Virtual seeds with real benefits

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Die albanische Moderatorin Fatma Haxhialiu, eine Frau mit blonden Locken, lächelt fröhlich in die Kamera, im Hintergrund eine Gruppe von männlichen Jugendlichen

Start-ups in Armenia: Fresh ideas for digitalisation

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Die albanische Moderatorin Fatma Haxhialiu, eine Frau mit blonden Locken, lächelt fröhlich in die Kamera, im Hintergrund eine Gruppe von männlichen Jugendlichen

Digital administration to strengthen resilience

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Cyber security: on a mission to establish trust

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Innovative ideas on how to tackle the challenges facing society in the 21st century

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Philippines: visiting the doctor online

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Female developers needed: boosting the number of women in the digital economy

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Interview: ‘Using digital technology to benefit the whole of society’

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Rwanda: first electric tractor goes into operation

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Using blockchain against counterfeit drugs

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