La coopération internationale de la Suisse – le parent pauvre de la cour de récréation

"Comment documenter et partager les apprentissages d’un programme de santé maternelle et infantile ? Enfants du Monde a choisi de donner la parole aux communautés et aux soignant·es à travers un reportage vidéo, produit lors de la fin de phase de son programme de santé maternelle et néonatale (2024). Ce récit, fait partie d’un processus de capitalisation : il reflète comment, au fil des années, l’approche intégrée d’Enfants du Monde – formation des prestataires, engagement communautaire, autonomisation des femmes et des familles – a contribué à améliorer la santé des mères et des enfants dans des contextes fragiles."

• Enfants du Monde
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Depuis mai 2025, The Family of 5 sont ambassadeurs de Handicap International Suisse. Leur engagement prend vie à travers des vidéos de sensibilisation, des publications, et une collecte de don en faveur de la Syrie lors du semi-marathon de Lausanne en octobre 2025. Ils ont réalisé leurs objectifs : courir les 21 km et collecter 10’000 CHF.

• handicap international

Les Philippines font face pour la 20ème fois en 2025 à un typhon d’une violence extrême : Kalmaegi est le plus meurtrier de l’année, le bilan est catastrophique. l’archipel des Philippines, avec des rafales de vent atteignant jusqu’à 170km/h selon le service météo philippin. C’est peu après minuit qu’il touche le pays avec une violence extrême. Pluies torrentielles, inondations, coulées de boue, etc. La province de Cebu a été l’une des plus durement touchées

• Handicap international

À Gaza, la guerre a transformé chaque instant en lutte pour la survie. Parmi les milliers de blessés, Fouad, neuf ans.

• handicap international

"Scientists said ganaplacide-lumefantrine, or GanLum, would be the first major innovation in malaria treatment in decades since the introduction of artemisinin-based combination treatments."

• devex

"The vaccine alliance reached its target of immunizing an estimated 86 million girls with the vaccine that prevents human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted infection which can lead to cervical cancer."

• devex

" Près de deux semaines après son passage, les conséquences de l’ouragan Melissa continuent de bouleverser le quotidien des habitants de Cuba, de la Jamaïque et d’Haïti. Le Département fédéral des affaires étrangères (DFAE) a envoyé des renforts en expertise et en matériel. Il a consacré 1,3 millions de francs pour répondre aux besoins des populations affectées par l’ouragan dans ces trois pays. "

• Département fédéral des affaires étrangères

"The World Health Organization (WHO) today released its first global guidelines for the management of diabetes during pregnancy, a condition affecting about one in six pregnancies – or 21 million women annually. The new recommendations provide a critical roadmap to tackle this growing health challenge and prevent serious complications for both women and their children."

• World Health Organization

"Opinion: With the right strategies following aid cuts, Africa’s health financing can shift from crisis mode to a system of long-term, financial resilience that sees capital retained and reinvested within the continent."

• devex

"As COP30 observed Health Day on Thursday, world leaders came together to witness the launch of the Belém Health Action Plan for the adaptation of climate change to the health sector."

• devex

""GENEVA – Global health leaders are calling for robust new measures to combat the use of tobacco and related products, including restrictions on flavours to curb the surge in e-cigarettes use in adolescents and filter bans to protect the environment. "

• Health Policy Watch

"Eine Studie legt nahe, dass es armen Menschen gesundheitlich besser geht, wenn man ihnen einfach Geld zuteilt. Solche Zahlungen sind in weniger wohlhabenden Ländern verbreitet – aber ihre Wirkweise bleibt unklar."

• Süddeutsche Zeitung SZ

"This week, the world marks World Antimicrobial Awareness Week and malaria parasites, though often forgotten, are part of the range of microbes preventing us from achieving the Sustainable Development Goal of Good Health and Well-being. Malaria remains an immense public health burden, especially in Africa. It mainly affects the poor, and remains an immense health burden for families and nations. "

• Health Policy Watch

Public health experts expressed concern that African governments are losing their collective bargaining power with the ‘America First’ approach to global health.

• devex

"Artificial intelligence could compress years of drug discovery into months – helping to overcome growing drug resistance to existing treatments for malaria and other vector-borne diseases. But scientists in low-income countries are often left behind. Jeremy Burrows, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) vice president, head of drug discovery, explains how a new open-access, AI-powered drug discovery tool co-developed by MMV aims to level the playing field. "

• Health Policy Watch

"Zambia, Zimbabwe and DRC take steps to protect decades of progress in reproductive health, as donor fatigue leads to steep cuts in aid Several African governments are boosting funding for family planning programmes as cuts in foreign aid threaten decades of reproductive health progress and access to birth control for millions of women and girls."

• The Guardian

The World Health Organization (WHO) is marking its first official observance of World Prematurity Day with the launch of a new global clinical practice guide for Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) – a simple, proven and life-saving intervention that significantly improves survival for preterm and low birth weight babies.

• World Health Organization

Violence against women remains one of the world’s most persistent and under-addressed human rights crises, with very little progress in two decades, according to a landmark report released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UN partners.

• World Health Organization

"In August 2025, Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali removed all taxes and customs duties on feminine hygiene products. Now, Guyana’s Ambassador to the UN in Geneva calls on other countries to follow suit."

• Health Policy Watch

"The World Health Organization (WHO) today called on countries to make fertility care safer, fairer and more affordable for all in its first-ever global guideline for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infertility."

• World Health Organization

"One in six people of reproductive age will be affected by infertility, yet health services to address this are “severely limited” and largely funded out-of-pocket, according to the first ever global guideline on the issue by the World Health Organization (WHO)."

• Health Policy Watch

"On World AIDS Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls on governments and partners to rapidly expand access to new WHO-approved tools including lenacapavir (LEN) to drive down infections and counter disruption to essential health services caused by cuts to foreign aid."

• World Health Organization

"L’OMS/Europe a désigné Public Health Wales (Royaume-Uni) comme nouveau centre collaborateur pour l’équité en matière de santé numérique. Cette collaboration contribuera de manière essentielle à définir les travaux de l’OMS sur l’équité en matière de santé numérique, ainsi qu’à développer les activités conjointes dans ce domaine et à sensibiliser davantage les acteurs régionaux concernés à cette question.

• World Health Organization