AFRICA – In honour of World Breastfeeding Week 2022, UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) have encouraged African governments, donors, civil society, and the private sector to dedicate more resources to safeguard, enhance, and support breastfeeding policies and programmes.
EAST AFRICA – In response to an upsurge in COVID-19 infections in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, Amref Health Africa, Unilever, and the National Business Compact on Coronavirus (NBCC), with assistance from relevant partners, have launched a new behavioural change campaign in the three nations.
INDIA – According to a report in the Economic Times, Indian hospital chains are working to change the way that people travel to other countries for medical care by accelerating direct entry into regions like the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, and the rest of South Asia, which are the main sources of patients for various diseases in India.
KENYA – AstraZeneca, a global pharmaceutical corporation, has supplied Kenya’s Ministry of Health with digital non-mydriatic research equipment that employs retinal cameras to assess a patient’s risk of already having or developing diabetes and hypertension through a single retinal screening.
ESWATINI – In a recent study, Vaccines and Infectious Analytics Research (VIDA) at the University of Witwatersrand identified potential advantages of hybrid immunity, which results from past COVID-19 infection and immunisation against coronavirus variants and subvariants.
DJIBOUTI – The United States government has donated a US$4 million fully equipped mobile field hospital to the Djiboutian Ministry of Health through USAID, the Office of Security Cooperation, and Camp Lemonier to offer a safe environment for high-level medical services.
UGANDA – Over 70 emergency responders, including managers, national trainers, and rapid response teams, were trained by the Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the Nile Village Hotel in Jinja on the rapid deployment and operational response to public health emergencies.
WASHINGTON – The Africa Centres for Disease Control (Africa CDC) has received World Bank approval for a $100 million support program that will help strengthen the institution’s organizational framework and increase its technical capacity in order to increase assistance to African nations in anticipating, identifying, and responding to disease outbreaks and public health emergencies.
AFRICA – The Vaccine Alliance, Gavi, has started a procedure for nations to apply for funds to help to roll out the new vaccine, moving the world’s first-ever mass vaccination against malaria one step closer.
ZAMBIA – The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has called for swift action on strengthening public health emergency operations in the wake of the increasing public health events and recurrent epidemics on the continent.
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