Promoting Global 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.

The One Health Approach: 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 works according to the One Health approach, pooling 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.