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Arusha — A two-day EAC regional stakeholders consultation meeting to validate technical documents that the Partner States National Medicines Regulatory Authorities (NMRAs) will use for harmonized medicines regulation scheme was held 17 to 18 March 2014 in Arusha, Tanzania.
[Read More] East African Community (EAC) member states are in the process of harmonising the registration of human drugs to allow their free movement and increase availability of safe, efficacious and good quality essential medicines in the region. [Read More]
To test the assumption that reductions in malaria in Africa will increase economic productivity, a correlation-regression analysis was conducted to evaluate the impact of expenditures by the US President’s Malaria Initiative for Africa (PMI), and increases in the economic productivity of countries included in the PMI. [Read More]
Seven new Commissioners were on Thursday, 23rd January 2013 appointed into an expanded ECOWAS Commission by the Council of Ministers, bringing the membership of the Commission’s management to 15, in line with the decision of regional
Heads of State and Government. [Read More] Previous studies on vaccination coverage in developing countries focus on individual- and community-level barriers to routine vaccination mostly in rural settings. This paper examines health system barriers to childhood immunization in urban Kampala Uganda. [Read More]
By 2050, sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) urban population is expected to grow from 414 million to over 1.2 billion. This growth will likely increase challenges to municipalities attempting to provide access to water supply and sanitation (WS&S). This study aims to characterize trends in access to WS&S in SSA cities and identify factors affecting those trends. [Read More]
Since February 3, 2014 Dr. Xavier CRESPIN a citizen of Niger and Dr. Laurent Aholofon ASSOGBA a Beninese citizen, are respectively, the new Director General and the new Deputy Director General of the West African Health
Organisation (WAHO). The two new heads of the institution were appointed by the Council of Ministers of ECOWAS... [Read More] African Union Commissioner for Social Affairs Dr. Mustapha Kalokoh has briefed journalists on the Commission’s roadmap on migration, labour and employment and nutrition, on the cusp of the 22nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this year. [Read More]
The African Union Heads of State and Government, at their 15th Ordinary African Union Assembly, adopted key actions to improve maternal, neonatal and child health and mandated the African Union Commission to report annually on the state of maternal, newborn, and child health in Africa, until 2015. This document represents the second report on the status of maternal, newborn, and child health in Africa.
This year’s report focuses on low-cost, high-impact maternal, newborn, and child health interventions in Africa, such as family planning, immunization, nutrition, integration of health services, and health financing. [Read More] For Africa to benefit from the demographic dividend requires that the increase in the working-age population be complemented by quality human growth. The ‘Cost of Hunger in Africa’ (COHA) study highlights the economic and social implications of ignoring the variety of nutrition problems that children face, as well as how these issues impact the productivity and capacity of individuals. The COHA study shows how much we stand to gain in terms of productivity if we take action on nutrition today. [Read More]
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