ESTHER Alliance

We are an alliance of governments and allied organizations. Our members engage institutions in effective and sustainable North-South partnerships. Our partnerships strengthen the capacity of the health workforce and institutions to provide quality health services for people in low and middle-income countries. We promote institutional health partner... ships through knowledge generation, sharing best practice, collaboration, and advocacy.Since its launch in 2002, the Alliance has already supported more than 200 partnerships in diverse intervention areas and in more than 30 countries.The ESTHER initiative acquired a European dimension soon after the creation of the GIP ESTHER (public French agency) in March 2002. An initial core of countries (France, Italy, Luxembourg and Spain) agreed in April 2002 to jointly develop a ‘Network for Therapeutic Solidarity in Hospitals against AIDS’ (Ensemble pour une solidarité thérapeutique hospitalière en réseau, ESTHER) to strengthen the skills and capacities of health structures in less-developed countries to assist people living with HIV/AIDS.The members agreed to set up a European Secretariat at GIP ESTHER. In March 2004, four more countries ratified the same declaration (Austria, Belgium, Germany and Portugal), followed by Greece in September 2006. Norway in November 2008, Switzerland in November 2011 and Ireland in February 2012. In October 2012, the United Kingdom joined the Alliance with observer status, and in 2014 a Southern Countries Representative joined the Board. In mid-2017, the Alliance widened its membership from a European to a global level and was rebranded as the ESTHER Alliance for Global Health Partnerships.Read More