Health for All Project - Improving Population Health in Albania

In early May 2016, Jürg Utzinger and Kaspar Wyss visited Albania to review progress and challenges of the Health for All Project (HAP), to explore additional collaborations and to participate in an international public health conference. The visit also offered the opportunity to meet and exchange with the Minister of Health of Albania Ilir Beqaj and the Swiss Ambassador to Albania Christoph Graf and his team. Swiss TPH has been actively involved in Albania since 2014. The current activities primarily focus on improving population health through the Health for All Project (HAP) , a project funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation that Swiss TPH co-implements with 'Terres des Hommes? and 'Save the Children.' In collaboration with the Albanian Ministry of Health, the project aims to improve the primary health care services in two regions of Albania (Fier and Diber). On the demand side, HAP implements interventions to strengthen citizen's participation and health literacy. On the supply side the primary care infrastructure and equipment is renewed and health managers, primary care doctors and nurses are actively trained. Jürg Utzinger and Kaspar Wyss met the local team in Tirana and received in-depth insights of their work.