ESTHER Switzerland
Network for the promotion
of Institutional Health
Partnerships

ESTHER Switzerland
Network for the promotion
of Institutional Health
Partnerships

A Swiss-Uzbek partnership
The thread that led to a
beautiful friendship

A Swiss-Uzbek partnership
The thread that led to a
beautiful friendship

A Swiss-Tanzanian partnership
How an ESTHER partnership
builds on past experience

A Swiss-Tanzanian partnership
How an ESTHER partnership
builds on past experience

ESTHER Switzerland
Network for the promotion
of Institutional Health
Partnerships

ESTHER Switzerland
Network for the promotion
of Institutional Health
Partnerships

ESTHER Switzerland
Network for the promotion
of Institutional Health
Partnerships

ESTHER Switzerland
Network for the promotion
of Institutional Health
Partnerships

Partnerships

Grants

Funding

Network

What is ESTHER?

ESTHER Switzerland coordinates healthcare partnerships between organisations in Switzerland and low- and middle-income countries.

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Our Work

ESTHER Switzerland works through institutional health partnerships, which are financed by grants.

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Resources

ESTHER Switzerland collects helpful resources about partnerships, tools and the work of partner institutions.

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The thread that led to a beautiful friendship

A Swiss–Uzbek partnership

It all began with an e-mail that no one answered. Olimjon Saidmamatov, an Uzbek economist attending an energy conference in St. Gallen, learned that ESTHER offers grants for Institutional Health Partnerships between Switzerland and low- and middle-income countries. He came from a family of doctors and was interested in helping to close the gap between Uzbek and Swiss medicine. Saidmamatov sent an email to more than 100 doctors in Switzerland, looking for a collaborator.

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Fighting childhood malnutrition
How to build on past experiences

A Swiss-Tanzanian partnership

Improving child survival in Tanzania is the goal of Maja Weisser, an infectious diseases specialist from Basel, Switzerland, and Getrud Mollel, a global health professional from Kilombero, Tanzania. The recipients of a 99,862 franc ESTHER grant to improve screening for childhood malnutrition in Tanzania talk about the benefits of their north-south partnership.

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