Das zweite Credit-Suisse-Momentum: Und der Bundesrat verschläft es

"Mit Verhaltensänderungen tun sich alle Menschen schwer. Nicole Rähle und Monika Christofori-Khadka, Gesundheits-Expertinnen des SRK, entwickelten einen Ansatz, der Verhaltensänderungen nachhaltig fördert. Sie bilden Mitarbeitende und Freiwillige der Rotkreuz- und Rothalbmond-Bewegung in diesem Ansatz weiter. Im Interview erklärt Monika Christofori-Khadka, was es braucht, um gesundheitsfördernde Gewohnheiten im Alltag zu verankern."

• Schweizerisches Rotes Kreuz

"Nach dem schweren Erdbeben in Myanmar schickt das Schweizerische Rote Kreuz Hilfe nach Südostasien. Häuser, Spitäler und Brücken sind eingestürzt. Tausende Menschen verloren ihr Leben oder wurden verletzt. Das Schweizerische Rote Kreuz leistet technische und finanzielle Unterstützung und entsendet bei Bedarf Personal in die Region."

• Schweizerisches Rotes Kreuz

"Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases. While new treatments offer hope, the rise of drug-resistant TB strains threatens to reverse progress. This World TB Day, we highlight new research from Swiss TPH that aims to stay one step ahead of this growing health crisis."

• Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

"Um 12.50 Uhr Ortszeit erschütterte ein schweres Erdbeben der Stärke 7,7 Myanmar. Die Erschütterungen wurden in Laos, Thailand und China verspürt. Die Zahl der Todesopfer noch nicht bekannt, aber zahlreiche Verletzte strömen in die Spitäler. Wir befürchten eine ernste humanitäre Notlage in diesem Land, das bereits durch eine politische, wirtschaftliche und gesundheitliche Krise geschwächt ist. Die Behörden haben den Notstand in sechs vom Erdbeben betroffenen Regionen ausgerufen."

• handicap international

"Litauen wird am 6. März 2025 die Konvention über das Verbot von Streumunition verlassen. Es ist der erste Staat, der seit der Annahme des Vertrages im Jahr 2008 aus diesem und überhaupt aus einem Abrüstungsvertrag austritt. Handicap International, Gründungsmitglied der „Cluster Munition Coalition“, bedauert diese Entscheidung zutiefst und fordert Litauen auf, dem Übereinkommen wieder beizutreten. "

• handicap international

"Erst nach der Geburt bemerkte Prabins Mutter Sunita, dass ihrem kleinen Jungen der Unterschenkel des rechten Beins fehlte. Prabins erste Jahre waren schwierig für Sunita und ihre Familie. Sie liebten ihren kleinen Jungen, aber ihre Gemeinschaft akzeptierte Kinder mit Behinderungen nicht wirklich. "

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Weltweit und auch in der Schweiz mangelt es an ausgebildeten Fachkräften im Gesundheitswesen. Der globale Mangel an Gesundheitspersonal führt dazu, dass sich die Länder gegenseitig aktiv und passiv Ärzt:innen und Pflegepersonal abwerben. Die Verlierer dieser Situation sind vor allem Länder mit schwächeren Gesundheitssystemen. Diese Länder verlieren nicht nur das Personal, sondern auch die Investitionen, die in dessen Ausbildung getätigt wurden. Das MMS-Symposium 2024 befasste sich mit den Folgen und möglichen Lösungen des Personalmangels im Gesundheitswesen und erörterte Wege aus der Misere, die er verursacht. Weitere Erkenntnisse zu diesem Thema werden in diesem Bulletin vorgestellt.

• Medicus Mundi Schweiz

"The US decision to gut its foreign assistance budget has been cause for panic and confusion. A head-spinning succession of announcements from organisations seeing their grants paused, then exempted, then terminated, then restored, has made it difficult to get a clear picture of the scale of the impact of US funding. The latest piece of the puzzle comes from a leaked document from the US state department, reported last week by The New York Times and shared by Politico."

• Geneva Solutions

"The tariffs imposed by the United States on goods from several African countries on Wednesday will make it even more difficult for African countries to increase their health spending, said Dr Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). These tariffs – ranging from 10% for Kenyan goods to 50% for impoverished Lesotho – come on top of the loss of billions of dollars of US aid for health programmes including vaccinations, maternal and child health, HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. (...) The Africa CDC launched a concept paper on health financing on Thursday outlining how countries could mobilise more resources for health in the face of a 70% decline in official development assistance (ODA) between 2021 and 2025, from $81 billion to $25 billion."

• Health Policy Watch

"WHO’s budget crisis is even bigger than previously thought. The global health organization is short nearly $1.9 billion from a planned $4.2 billion budget for 2026-27, along with a $600 million deficit through end-2025, senior WHO officials revealed at a global ‘Town Hall’ meeting of WHO staff on Tuesday, heard by Health Policy Watch. The $1.9 billion gap means that WHO is short nearly 45% of the funding it needs to run even on a the reduced budget of $4.2 billion that had been planned for the upcoming 2026-2027 budget period, Imre Hollo, WHO official in charge of Planning, Resource Coordination, and Performance Monitoring, told staff at the Town Hall meeting."

• Health Policy Watch

"It’s been a rough few weeks. That is if you sit in Geneva or Washington DC and see colleagues who thought they were in safe, long-term jobs have to clean their desks and look for new work. If you run emergency services in South Sudan or Myanmar or any one of hundreds of other frontline battlefields in the global fight against disease, rough doesn’t cover it. The last few weeks have been tragic, heartbreaking and cruel. The sudden and brutal end to billions of dollars in global health assistance has been costly: in thousands of lives lost; in wasted medicines and supplies that cannot be distributed; in projects and research that will end with no conclusions or results. As damaging as the cutoff of services and treatment is, the infrastructure, supply chains, surveillance and information networks that are gone overnight are even harder to rebuild."

• Geneva Health Files

"The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned last week that 58 million people risk losing life-saving assistance in the agency’s 28 most critical crisis response operations unless new funding is received urgently. In a news release issued on 28 March, WFP said that despite the generosity of many governments and individual donors, it is experiencing a steep decline in funding across its major donors. The severity of these cuts, combined with record levels of people in need, have led to an unprecedented crisis for tens of millions across the globe reliant on food aid, it added."

• Third World Network

"La crise que connaît l'ONG Terre des hommes Lausanne depuis l'élection de Donald Trump empire. L'organisation de défense des droits de l'enfant a annoncé jeudi que l'un de ses projets majeurs, en Afghanistan, ne serait plus financé par les États-Unis. Fin février, elle avait déjà révélé que Washington abandonnait son soutien dans quatre autres pays, à savoir l'Égypte, l'Inde, le Kenya et le Liban. Cinq des sept projets de Terre des hommes Lausanne sont ainsi désormais délaissés par l'administration Trump."

• 20 Minuten

"Health facilities in two different Ugandan regions are out of stock of some lifesaving HIV treatment. The government is scrambling to address any shortfalls. A pharmacist at Kiboga Hospital in central Uganda said the facility ran out of the preferred medicine for children with HIV last Thursday. Instead, pharmacists are breaking adult formulations of the same drug down to a size they hope children will be able to tolerate.

• devex

"There could be 2,000 new HIV infections a day across the world and a ten-fold increase in related deaths if funding frozen by the United States is not restored or replaced, the United Nations AIDS agency said on Monday. (...) Byanyima said that if funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) did not resume at the end of the 90-day pause, in April, or was not replaced by another government, "there will be, in the next four years, an additional 6.3 million AIDs-deaths."

• Reuters

"Critics of the Trump administration’s early actions on global health—withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO) and paralyzing U.S.-funded international health programs—fear that those moves will cede Washington’s long-standing leadership role to Beijing. American power and prestige, they charge, will wane, and China’s will grow. The reality is worse. A U.S. retreat on global health, if sustained, will indeed open the door for China to exploit the abrupt, chaotic withdrawal of U.S. programs in some strategic regions. (...) Without sustained support for either international institutions or health programs in the world’s poorest countries, the result will be a vacuum in global health that will make everyone less safe."

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"The global health landscape is at a pivotal moment, where Africa’s collective voice is pushing for a redefined, equitable health architecture. At the Africa Health Agenda International Conference (AHAIC) 2025, a critical plenary session titled Health for All, Not for Some examined how Africa can assert its role in shaping global health policies, financing models, and partnerships to achieve sustainable, inclusive health systems. (...)The Lusaka Agenda, a framework for advancing health equity in Africa, was a focal point of the discussion. It underscores key areas such as regional manufacturing, research and development, sustainable domestic financing, and equity. Speakers emphasized that traditional donor-driven health systems have perpetuated dependency, urging a shift toward African-led solutions."

• Amref

"African health systems are at a crossroads, grappling with systemic challenges including workforce shortages, underfunded infrastructure, and climate-driven health burdens. Volatile financing—driven by unpredictable donor commitments and competing global priorities—has left countries vulnerable to disruptions in essential services. The urgency for reform is amplified by overlapping crises, from pandemic recovery to climate shocks, demanding a reimagined approach to health financing that prioritises African agency and long-term sustainability."

• Center for Global

"The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) today announced the first pledge to its Eighth Replenishment Campaign – and it comes from the private sector. The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) has made a groundbreaking US$150 million commitment, a five-fold increase from its previous contribution. This historic pledge not only underscores CIFF’s unwavering commitment to global health, but also sets a powerful precedent for private sector leadership in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria."

• The Global Fund

"The World Health Organization (WHO) today launched new guidance to help all countries reform and strengthen mental health policies and systems. Mental health services worldwide remain underfunded, with major gaps in access and quality. In some countries, up to 90% of people with severe mental health conditions receive no care at all, while many existing services rely on outdated institutional models that fail to meet international human rights standards. (...) "Despite rising demand, quality mental health services remain out of reach for many people," said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. "This new guidance gives all governments the tools to promote and protect mental health and build systems that serve everyone.”

• World Health Organization (WHO)

"Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a threat to global health, food security and achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Tackling AMR is critical to preserving the world’s ability to treat diseases in humans, animals, and plants, reduce risks to food safety and security, protect the environment and maintain progress towards achieving the SDGs. Children and youth today will face the consequences of inaction and increased risks of AMR. In response, six organizations - the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the United Nations Educational, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) - recognize that young people can play an important role in bringing together wider society and stakeholder groups to tackle AMR."

• World Health Organization

"In this episode, we turn the lens on ourselves as the global health community. Host Garry Aslanyan speaks with Hani Kim and Seye Abimbola about how elite global health actors can marginalize local perspectives and knowledge. They stress the importance of localizing efforts and acknowledging implicit biases to address the structural inequalities that perpetuate health disparities. Seye Abimbola is Associate Professor at the University of Sydney School of Public Health and inaugural editor-in-chief of BMJ Global Health, and Hani Kim is Executive Director of the Research Investment for Global Health Technology (RIGHT) Foundation in South Korea."

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"The concept of determinants of health has evolved significantly over time. The Industrial Revolution marked a shift in thinking about health determinants, moving from a focus on individual factors to a broader recognition of how social, economic, and environmental conditions shape population health. The Digital Revolution and the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) are broadening our understanding of health determinants further, raising new questions about what influences health and well-being in the modern world. The health promotion community has always been at the forefront of efforts to address the determinants of health, advocating for multisectoral action and policy responses that tackle structural inequalities and challenge the practices of health-harming industries. In the face of new opportunities and problems presented by digital transformations, the health promotion community has now been called on to lead the charge in addressing the digital determinants of health (Kickbusch and Holly 2023)."

• Health Promotion International

"The Gates Foundation has signed a three-year, $7.5 million partnership to scale artificial intelligence innovations in Rwanda, on the sidelines of the Global AI Summit on Africa. The summit, convened by the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Rwandan Ministry of ICT & Innovation in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, was held last week in Kigali. Trevor Mundel, president of global health at the Gates Foundation, and Paula Ingabire, Rwanda’s minister of ICT and innovation, signed a memorandum of understanding to establish the Rwanda Artificial Intelligence Scaling Hub."

• Devex

"As Western governments slash billions in foreign aid budgets, women and children in the world's most vulnerable communities face a grim reality: The fragile health systems they depend on are crumbling. These cuts aren't merely financial adjustments — they represent potential death sentences for millions who rely on donor-funded health care programs."

• devex

"Since reclaiming power in 2021, the Taliban have systematically denied Afghan girls and women their rights to education, employment, and freedom of movement. Now, as internal divisions shake the regime, there is a real chance that the ban on girls’ education may finally be lifted. (...) Nowhere is the fight for the rights of girls and women more urgent than in Afghanistan, where the Taliban’s return to power in 2021 has led to egregious human rights violations, including the exclusion of girls from secondary education. Now, after yet another Afghan school year has begun without girls beyond sixth grade, a rift within the regime offers hope that the ban may be reversed in the near future."

• Project Syndicate

"Trotz medizinischen Fortschritts und gesellschaftlicher Sensibilisierung ist die Diskriminierung von Menschen mit HIV in der Schweiz ein ungelöstes, drängendes Problem. Anässlich des Zero Discrimination Day am 1. März veröffentlicht die Aids-Hilfe Schweiz einen Bericht über die im Jahr 2023 eingegangenen Diskriminierungsmeldungen und ruft dazu auf, Menschen mit HIV respektvoll zu begegnen."

• Aids Hilfe Schweiz

"The newly released policy brief “What’s new in the draft Pandemic Agreement?” shows how the draft agreement builds on lessons from COVID-19 by proposing a systemic approach to pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (PPPR). The analysis is structured in three parts: (1) a comparison with the amended International Health Regulations (IHR) to understand why a new instrument was deemed necessary and how the two frameworks could work together; (2) a thematic grouping of related articles, illustrating the integrated logic of the draft text; and (3) a focus on the ‘green’ provisions—articles already broadly agreed—which introduce meaningful innovations and mark progress beyond existing international health law."

• Health Policy Watch

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