Ukraine Relief Project: EKFS allocates funds for siblings of children with cancer

32 children from Ukraine are currently being treated for cancer at the University Hospital of Essen. Supplementary to medical treatment, the sick children are being integrated into therapeutic offers at the clinic, for example art therapy and kinesitherapy. The children suffering from cancer are accompanied by their mothers and siblings who have fled here. Up till now no therapeutic measures have existed for the healthy siblings to enable them to come to terms with the disease afflicting the member of their family and the wartime events they have experienced.

Innovative strategies for optimization of randomized therapeutic trials using molecular imaging and artificial intelligence

The prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is overexpressed in prostate cancer cells and can be utilized as a target structure to treat patients with advanced prostate cancer. PSMA therapy can display a high efficiency and prolong patients’ survival time; however, it is currently not clear which patients will benefit from therapy and which will not respond to it. This proposal therefore aims at optimizing the selection process for PSMA therapy by means of methods of artificial intelligence, characteristics of all metastases, and additional features.

Intermediate Care Unit at the St Francis Referral Hospital, Ifakara, Tanzania

Situation:

The St Francis Referral Hospital in Ifakara, Tanzania, serves as a referral Center for a rural population of ~1.5 million people. Its emergency department (ED) manages 88.000 patients per year, 10% in a serious condition. To further stabilize seriously sick patients who were successfully managed at the emergency room, and for patients who received surgery, an intermediate care unit is needed. 
 

Hosting of a mobile health camp in the mountainous region of Mugu, Western Nepal

Situation:

One third of the Nepalese population has no access to doctors. There is a lack of health facilities, as well as free medicines. In the rural areas of Nepal there are only poorly equipped "Health Posts", which offer neither simple medicine nor doctors. To this day, people die from easily treatable diseases or lack of knowledge on daily hygiene.

 

Health Care programme for Rohingya Refugees and host community

Situation:

In September 2017 hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fled to Bangladesh and settled behind the border area in Kutupalong. This area became the biggest refugee camp of the world with more than 1 Mio settlers. As one of the international NGOs, SONNE-International set up two health posts inside and outside the camp providing basic and specialised health (ENT) and family planning service.
 

Strengthening community-based maternal and child health care in rural Mozambique (Memba district)

Situation:

In rural settings such as Memba District, maternal and infant mortality rates are far above average, often due to infectious diseases (such as malaria,) or poor pregnancy monitoring and delivery conditions. Families’ knowledge and practices are insufficient, because of a low education level and a difficult access to quality healthcare. The public health system is plagued with shortages of qualified staff and essential equipment, as well as a lack of infrastructures (up to 35 km of walking distance to reach a health centre).

 

Healthcare for Change, Kenya

Situation:

Korogocho is one of the poorest slums in Kenya’s capital Nairobi. Up to 300000 people live in an area of one-and-a-half square kilometers without access to clean water, education or medical aid. Children mainly spend their time looking for valuable material in the country’s largest adjacent landfill, inhaling toxic chemicals, consuming dangerous food and developing unstable health conditions.
 

Objectives:

Establish better prerequisites for obtaining quality education through advancement of child development, nutrition and health.

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