Better health care

EED is committed to improving health care in the developing world and making the human right to health a reality. To this end, EED engages in both political lobbying and advocacy work.

With the needs and objectives of its partners as its starting point, EED engages politics, business, the church and the community in dialog on development policy issues. The Church Development Service collaborates with churches, ecumenical partners and non-government organizations. EED is a supporting member of the Action against AIDS Germany and the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance, and provides the Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network with specialist support. EED also works closely with Difaem (Deutsches Institut für Ärztliche Mission).

EED's partners and the projects it supports work toward securing access to two of the most essential social services for the world's poor and disadvantaged-health care and education. Many of the programs, designed to help the people help themselves, are integrated into rural development programs. In order to effectively get at the structural causes of poverty and affect change that matters, EED also supports the lobbying and advocacy work of its partners.

EED is involved in the following health-related areas:

• Lack of health care specialists
• HIV and Aids
• Climate change and health
• Malaria
• Access to medicine
• Human right to health
• Health and the Millennium Development Goal
• Primary health care and public health
• Sexual and reproductive health and rights
• Social health conditions
• Access to resources
• Theology and health