“Making Global Health Funds Work for Africa” The African Constituency Bureau brings together the two African constituencies West and Central Africa (WCA) and East and Southern Africa (ESA) represented at the Global Fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria (Global Fund). The two constituencies represent 46 African Countries that are recipients of Global Fund support for…
Kenya’s Community Health Strategy recommends the integration of service provision at community level. The strategy defines the role of Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) in basic healthcare with emphasis on integrated model of preventive and promotive health service delivery (MOH, 2020). Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS), ACK Development Services (ADS) Nyanza and the County Government of…
LABORATORY SERVICES BACKGROUND Laboratory services play a critical role in the detection, diagnosis and treatment of diseases. As the world moves towards the goal to eliminate HIV, TB and Malaria by 2030, the role of laboratories cannot be understated. The onset of COVID-19 pandemic, a virus that too requires laboratory services for its diagnostics, has…
Covid-19 A FOCUS ON HUMAN RESOURCES FOR HEALTH (HRH) BACKGROUND Many African countries continue to face significant challenges to providing adequate health care services due to understaffing, high staff attrition and poor working conditions. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated the situation as HRH, not only for healthcare but also for HIV, TB and Malaria…
HIV/AIDS AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS AND YOUNG WOMEN BACKGROUND Despite great progress made against HIV globally, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) are disproportionately at risk of acquiring new HIV infections. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown measures, including school closures, further predispose the AGYW at risk. Therefore, policy measures remain a necessity to reduce the…
Context to Research In Sub-Saharan Africa, there were 215 million Malaria cases and 384,000 malaria deaths recorded in 2019[1]. As the region is home to 94% of the malaria cases worldwide, evidence-based malaria interventions are critical to expand the current intervention paradigms. The Global fund for HIV, TB and Malaria is in the process of developing its post-2022…