Africa: Mpox: Coordination, Collaboration, Planning and Finance for Equity Required

Africa: Mpox: Coordination, Collaboration, Planning and Finance for Equity Required

[ad_1] A statement from the Right Honourable Helen Clark and the active former members of The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Given the mpox emergency, stakeholders including the World Health Organization headquarters and regional offices, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, international and regional health actors and those who can finance the response must ensure a co-ordinated and transparent plan to protect people’s lives and stop […]

August 31, 2024

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Why Ethiopia is so alarmed by an Egypt-Somalia alliance

[ad_1] Getty ImagesEgypt and Somalia's leaders have become very close this year - causing jitters in EthiopiaA military alliance between Somalia and Egypt is ruffling feathers in the fragile Horn of Africa, upsetting Ethiopia in particular - and there are worries the fallout could become more than a war of words.The tensions ratcheted up this week with the arrival of two Egyptian C-130 military aeroplanes in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, signalling […]

August 30, 2024

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Africa: Climate Change Has Deep Historical Roots – Amitav Ghosh Explores How Capitalism and Colonialism Fit in

[ad_1] Amitav Ghosh is an internationally celebrated author of 20 historical fiction and non-fiction books. The Indian thinker and writer has written extensively on the legacies of colonialism, violence and extractivism. His most famous works explore migration, globalisation and commercial violence and conquest during the colonial period, against the backdrop of the opium trade in the 1800s. Caroline Southey, from The Conversation Africa, asked economics professor Imraan Valodia and climate […]

August 30, 2024

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Russia’s Bear Brigade troops to leave for Ukraine war

[ad_1] Russia is withdrawing 100 of its paramilitary officers from Burkina Faso to help in the war in Ukraine. They are part of about 300 soldiers from the Bear Brigade - a Russian private military company - who arrived in the West African nation in May to support the country's military junta. On its Telegram channel, the group said its forces would return home to support Russia’s defence against Ukraine’s […]

August 30, 2024

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Africa Stands At the Centre of SA’s Foreign Policy – President Ramaphosa

[ad_1] President Cyril Ramaphosa has asserted that Africa stands firmly at the centre of South Africa's foreign policy. The President said South Africa was firmly committed to strengthening the African Union (AU) as an instrument of peace, stability, integration and development on the continent. "South Africa plays a leading role on several continental issues. We are, for example, the chair of the Presidential Infrastructure Champion Initiative. We are currently the […]

August 30, 2024

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Africa: Mpox in the DRC – Children Are At High Risk – Health Expert Explains Why

[ad_1] The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that children, pregnant women and people with weak immune systems are at higher risk from the mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Reports confirm that children under five account for 39% of all cases in the country, and babies as young as two weeks are being diagnosed with this viral illness. Nadia Adjoa Sam-Agudu, an expert in paediatric infectious diseases, […]

August 30, 2024

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Africa: The Mpox Outbreak’s Disturbing Echoes in Africa

[ad_1] Mpox is not COVID-19, but that pandemic's bitter lessons have not all been learnt. An ominous sense of déjà vu is emerging across Africa as the mpox outbreak spreads from its epicentre in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Is this COVID-19 redux? The short answer is probably no, as mpox isn't spread as easily as COVID-19, merely by breathing - it requires direct physical contact, including sex. […]

August 30, 2024

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Africa: UN Releases U.S.$100 Million to Ramp Up Responses to 10 Underfunded Humanitarian Crises

[ad_1] As the global funding outlook remains grim, the United Nations today released US$100 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to address critical underfunding of humanitarian emergencies across 10 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East. "In far too many humanitarian emergencies, a lack of funding prevents aid agencies from reaching people who need life-saving assistance, and that is heart-wrenching," said Joyce Msuya, Acting Under-Secretary-General […]

August 30, 2024

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Africa: WHO Urges Rapid Access to Mpox Diagnostic Tests, Invites Manufacturers to Emergency Review

[ad_1] WHO has asked manufacturers of mpox in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) to submit an expression of interest for Emergency Use Listing (EUL). WHO has been in ongoing discussions with manufacturers about the need for effective diagnostics, particularly in low-income settings. The request for EUL expressions of interest by manufacturers is the latest development in these discussions. Testing is key for people to get treatment and care as early as possible […]

August 30, 2024

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