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With well-adapted prostheses and orthoses, children with congenital or acquired disabilities can participate in a normal life, attend school, play and develop in a manner appropriate to their age.

This project supports the Br. Tarcisius Prosthetics and Orthotics Training College (BTPOTC) in Nsawam, through targeted further training of the subject teachers, to increase the level of training of the graduates in the long term so as to gain international recognition as a technical school for the training of Associate Prosthetists & Orthotists.

The aim of the project is to significantly improve patient care and education in the field of chronic non-communicable diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes and chronic kidney disease. The focus is on the expansion of care structures and the training and further education of local health personnel. In particular, the team relies on community health workers who sensitize, train and test the local population in dealing with chronic diseases, refer them to participating health centers if necessary and provide long-term care.

Setting up a Mother-and-Child Clinic in a strongly under-served region;
Access to low cost / free of charge basic health care for poorest parts of the population;
Capacities sufficient to serve up to 25.000 patients / year;
24/7 service, i.e. the clinic is open 24 hours per days and 7 day per week;
Procurement, installation, maintenance of medical equipment;
Setting up an operation theatre for basic surgical interventions;
Regular training for different work areas / staff groups;
Outreach through traditional birth attendants who receive continuous training;

The project rolls out WHO recommended wound management combined with innovative low-tech community-based thermotherapy of Buruli ulcer (BU) in the BU-endemic Tiassalé Health District,  Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa. It addresses three key areas of clinical and public health importance:

Palliative care means disease-relieving care for seriously ill people with incurable conditions such as tumour diseases, HIV/AIDS, chronic neurological diseases, paralysis, strokes, blindness or non-healing wounds. In rural regions of Africa, such patients and their relatives are largely left to their own devices. The aim of the project is to improve Palliative Care in Muleba District, a rural, extensive region in northwest Tanzania.

since 2008 the NGO Pharmacists without Borders Germany has co-operated with the Health Centre No. 16 in a slum area in Buenos Aires. The project ensures medical and pharmaceutical care on a long-term basis – at least 10 years – for slum residents with chronic diseases such as Type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia and obesity in order to lower the number of fatalities and consequential conditions due to cardiovascular diseases.

Operating in Africa has been active in Burkina Faso since 2001, originally sending teams of European surgeons to local hospitals for short-term assignments and training campaigns. In 2014, the organization built a surgical clinic, currently staffed by 29 local employees, which provides basic care for the local population and at the same time serves as a platform for short assignments of surgical teams of various surgical disciplines. Approximately 10 such aid missions take place every year.

In Ambam in southern Cameroon a rented building houses a small eye clinic with an attached optician workshop, which is also the location of a mobile eye clinic with which we conduct surgical campaigns four times a year in remote areas of the country.

The project aims to improve maternal and child healthcare in 15 Epicenters in rural areas in Ghana addressing needs on both the supply and demand side. By building up basic health care services, mother, newborns and children have improved access to health care. Staff of the Epicenter clinics is trained, thus they advise mothers to basic health care and nutrition and breastfeeding practices. Through media campaigns and trainings 15.000 people are informed and sensitized about maternal and child healthcare and nutrition.