Hard fought gains in immunization coverage at risk without critical health services, warns WHO
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world had made immense progress in ensuring that children are vaccinated Shutting down immunization services in the COVID-19 pandemic risks triggering a…
World Health Organization (WHO) urges countries to move quickly to save lives from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa
New analysis supports the WHO call to minimize disruptions to malaria prevention and treatment services during the COVID-19 pandemic Severe disruptions to insecticide-treated net campaigns and…
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The human factor in clean water
For more than 2 billion people, safe drinking water isn’t a given. Not for them a clean, reliable supply of treated water splurting out on demand from a kitchen tap — instead, they face often…
In the face of Coronavirus, African Countries apply lessons from Ebola Response
Using lessons from the Ebola outbreak in 2014, African countries prepare to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus); in the aftermath of the West Africa Ebola crisis, the World Bank…
Why a one-size-fits-all approach to COVID-19 could have lethal consequences
Suppose you had the choice between two health policies, A and B. Policy A would result in the death of a lot of elderly people. Policy B would result in the death of a lot of children,…
Leveraging AMRH Success – a firm foundation for African Medicines Agency
Improving timely access to drugs for all patients in Africa 1.0 Introduction At present, drug approval processes in African countries operate separately and each country prioritizes its own…
Mental health in Africa: A neglected link in the development chain
Historically, mental health has been neglected on Africa’s health and development policy agenda. Faced with many challenges – including intractable poverty, infectious diseases, maternal and…
Interview: Vaccine manufacturing in Africa and the power of partnerships
Can you tell us why and how Biovac was founded? Biovac is a public-private partnership, established to revive the development and manufacture of vaccines and biologicals in South Africa.…
Africa-India Health Partnerships
The Third India-Africa Forum Summit, held in New Delhi in October 2015, announced ambitious programmes for development of cooperation between Africa and India. Health is a major sector for…
Building economies by closing immunization gaps
Like many people my, age I carry a small childhood scar on my left shoulder, an indication that I was once vaccinated against smallpox. In the villages of Tanzania, such scars used to act as a…
Tackling the next epidemic in Africa & lessons learned from the West African Ebola outbreak
The size and scale of the 2014-16 West African Ebola epidemic sent shockwaves throughout the world. In late summer 2014, television screens beamed disturbing images of people dying in the…
Empowering countries through the data revolution
When the United States and the international community mounted a response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, we saw a dramatic reduction in new cases. Liberia and Sierra Leone are close to…
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