This is achieved through three types of healthcare projects and a commitment to sharing our skills and training local people. These can be defined as:

• Emergency response projects
• Post-emergency, crisis, rehabilitation and reconstruction projects
• Long-term, sustainable healthcare development projects involving training local healthcare staff

Our objective of achieving universal access to healthcare means that we give a voice to vulnerable people. We report on their stories which may not otherwise be heard, when we witness obstacles to healthcare, or abuses of human rights.

In addition, three themes have been identified upon which our overseas projects are broadly based:

• Childhood
• Globalisation and its effects on health, including migration issues
• Infectious diseases: working towards worldwide prevention