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.
RWANDA – Rwanda has been awarded a significant contract to host the African Medicines Agency’s (AMA) headquarters. This will improve Africa’s access to high-quality medical products by enhancing state parties’ and RECs’ capabilities to regulate medical products.
The Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) of Zimbabwe has collaborated with the World Health Organization (WHO) to perform an external review of the country’s Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy (TPT) program management.
Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, have announced a collaboration to enhance health, nutrition, and sanitation in low- and middle-income countries, especially Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Accra/Brazzaville – Ghana has announced the country’s first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, after a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre laboratory confirmed earlier results.
ZAMBIA – The Zambian government intends to improve healthcare delivery by utilizing solar electricity for unserved healthcare facilities in order to increase the quality of services provided to poor and vulnerable members of society.
DRC – The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued recommendations on diagnosing, preventing and managing zoonotic diseases in Africa with an aim to reduce the risks of emerging public health threats in the region as well as prevent the next outbreak through a one-health approach.
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