The 3rd International Conference on Public Health in Africa, held in Lusaka, Zambia, from November 27-30, 2023, proved to be a pivotal African-led platform. Leaders from across the continent converged to address critical global health challenges, encompassing various issues. Among these, sustainable health financing emerged as a prominent topic, showcased at a side event led…
Eight years since the launch of the world Zero Discrimination Day, civil society organisation have commended the government on the progress that has so far been made to ensure that more people enjoy their rights without discrimination. Launched on March 1, 2014, the Zero Discrimination Day was originally established by the Joint United Nations Program…
This resistance, already reported in some countries of the continent, simply translates into longer recovery time. But it is feared that in the long term, it might cause the treatment to become totally ineffective. Malaria experts are concerned about the increasing resistance of the malaria pathogen Plasmodium falciparum to artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), the only…
The Global Fund 7th replenishment investment case was unveiled during the Global Fund preparatory meeting, that was hosted virtually by a coalition of five countries namely; the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal and South Africa on February 23, 2022. The Global Fund’s target for the Seventh Replenishment aims at raising at least…
Following the case of Rwanda, one of the GF grants’ implementing countries, the Community Health Program was instituted in 1995 and started with just about 12,000 health workers and was initially conceived as a response to the major public health problems that had developed because of the previous year’s war and the 1994 Genocide against…
While progress in West and Central Africa is slow, East and Southern Africa is making significant progress that is bringing some of its States closer to eliminating this form of infection. Progress in the fight against mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS is mixed in sub-Saharan Africa. The UNAIDS 2021 report , released on 1st December 2021,…
Les Circonscriptions africaines se réunissaient les 18 et 19 octobre derniers lors des Rencontres Annuelles Consultatives à Addis Abeba, en Ethiopie. Cette importante réunion réunissait 55 délégués d’Afrique Sub-saharienne ainsi que des partenaires techniques et financiers que sont ONUSIDA et Le Fonds Mondial réunis autour du thème « L’Afrique se positionne pour influer sur les…