The effort, according to African Union, AU, Spokesperson, Janet Byaryhanga, is to help reduce import of pharmaceutical products into the continent from other developed nations, to engage experts in the pharmaceutical sector all over the world in order to address those involved in policy formulation in the health, finance and other sectors so as to provide all that are needed to drive the local pharmaceutical industry in Africa. [Read More]
African leaders and prominent institutions across the globe have agreed to boost local production of pharmaceutical products.
The effort, according to African Union, AU, Spokesperson, Janet Byaryhanga, is to help reduce import of pharmaceutical products into the continent from other developed nations, to engage experts in the pharmaceutical sector all over the world in order to address those involved in policy formulation in the health, finance and other sectors so as to provide all that are needed to drive the local pharmaceutical industry in Africa. [Read More] Declaring open the 15th Ordinary Meeting of the Assembly of Health Ministers of ECOWAS at the City Hall, the President of the Republic of Liberia, Her Excellency, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, told participants that achieving Universal Health Coverage by ECOWAS countries is a daunting task not only because it takes time and perseverance, it also involves accessibility, affordability and quality of service. [Read More]
Providing West African communities with sound information crucial to curbing spread of Ebola – UN4/14/2014
Together with Ministries of Health and other partners across seven countries in West Africa, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is using culturally-sensitive communication strategies to disseminate life-saving information in order to contain the often-fatal Ebola virus, through text-messaging, radio shows, TV programmes and door-to-door campaigns. [Read More]
Participants at the just ended southern and eastern Africa regional meeting on the Global Fund’s new funding model have committed to ensure robust participation of women and adolescents in designing their plans as well as implementing gender-responsive programmes in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. [Read More]
Released in Johannesburg in early April, this is the first such review of its kind in a high burden African country, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). [Read More]
A new Global Investment Framework for Women's and Children's Health demonstrates how investment in women's and children's health will secure high health, social, and economic returns. [Read More]
A two day regional sensitization meeting by the ECOWAS Commission for the extensive use of biolarvicide for the eradication of malaria in Africa, aiming at applying the vector control approach has ended at Abidjan in Cote D’voire.
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) has concluded that vector control is the only intervention capable of militating against malaria transmission, reinforcing the ECOWAS resolve at strengthening the strategy to complement other interventions for a successful outcome. [Read More] New Funding Model, by Region
From Namibia to Ecuador, Senegal and Jamaica, partners in the global effort to defeat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria are busy this month holding consultations at regional meetings about the new funding model that is now being fully implemented by the Global Fund. The meetings are inclusive, stressing the need to deepen partnerships to achieve the most effective impact. Dialogue in Dakar At the regional meeting in Dakar, Senegal, more than 250 participants from 20 countries in Western and Central Africa put special focus on how issues of gender, maternal and child health and respect for human rights should be fully integrated into the new funding model, including the development of a concept note to apply for funding. The words “partnership” and “dialogue” were frequently used. [Read More] Cost of Hunger in Africa Study: A Regional Look at the Price of child undernutrition in Africa4/10/2014
The first report of the Cost of Hunger in Africa (COHA) Study that unveils the crushing impact of child undernutrition on the economies of four African countries was launched today in Abuja, Nigeria during a high level event organized on the sidelines of the Seventh Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. [Read More]
In Kenya and across Africa, neglected tropical diseases are a daily reality for many children, families and communities.
Despite efforts to control and eliminate them, trachoma, human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis (river blindness), soil-transmitted helminths, schistosomiasis and visceral leishmaniasis continue to threaten Kenya’s citizens. [Read More] |