Projects and Issues

Healthlink Worldwide at IAC 2010

IAC2010 logo Healthlink Worldwide and some of our African partners were represented at the International AIDS Conferenece in Vienna, in July.

Engaging communities: claiming rights to access health services in Cambodia

advocacy training Many Cambodians, particularly those in rural areas, lack access to adequate health care. The project seeks to strengthen the capacity of civil society to engage with existing legislation on human rights and its ability to hold government to account.

Child rights in East Africa

two children in Africa Ensuring children's legal and human rights to a secure future is important in strategies to reduce their vulnerability and poverty relating to the HIV and AIDS epidemic in East Africa.

Putting health workers at the heart of the MDGs – joint agencies’ call to the coalition government

A group of UK NGOs, including Healthlink Worldwide, have joined forces to a call on the UK coalition government to put health workers at the forefront of efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

Engaging the public in health research

African woman

The new issue of Health Exchange - Engaging the public in health research, for Summer 2010, contains a range of articles showing how communities can engage with science and health research.



Photo: Merlin/Frederic Courbet


About Healthlink Worldwide

Empowering people for better health

Family reading at a resource centre,

We work with over 50 partners worldwide, mobilising innovative knowledge and communication processes; empowering people to voice their health needs and have those voices heard.

How we work

Linking Evidence with Policy and Practice

An article presenting our work in support of effective communication of research, written by our Executive Director, Andrew Chetley.

Participation and partnership

Participants at a Communicating for Advocacy workshop, Bangladesh

Healthlink Worldwide is a specialist health and development agency. Our aim is to improve the health and well-being of disadvantaged and vulnerable communities in developing countries.

 

Vienna declaration