A recent editorial in the Lancet highlighted the synergies between the maternal, newborn and child health movements, calling for an integrated approach to the way the international health community funds, plans and implements care. Translating the continuum of care from theory into practice is an enormous challenge; however, recent consensus-building around the post-2015 global health agenda constitutes a tremendous opportunity to harmonize international frameworks, intervention packages and tools for measurement and evaluation. [Read More]
The slogan “make poverty history” has been used by development pundits and pop star philanthropists for years. Now, in a bid to turn words into deeds, it is being discussed as a universal global target to be met within a generation.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight poverty-reduction targets that were signed during a world summit in 2000, will be retired next year. Diplomats, aid experts and UN officials are currently negotiating the 15-year objectives that will replace them in 2016. [Read More] The Session of Senior Officials of the 9th Ordinary meeting of the EAC Sectoral Council of Ministers of Health is underway at the Zanzibar Beach Resort Hotel in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
At the official opening of the Session, Ms. Asha Ali Abdallahi, the Principal Secretary, Ministry of Empowerment, Social Welfare, Youth, Women and Children, Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania called upon Partner States to closely harmonize and strengthen policies that improve access to high impact interventions thereby improving the quality of life in the EAC. [Read More] Global policymakers, meeting in Kigali earlier this month at the 2nd Global Conference on Biofortification, committed to making biofortified nutritious foods more widely available in order to improve nutrition and health for millions of people around the world. [Read More]
African leaders and prominent institutions across the globe have agreed to boost local production of pharmaceutical products.
The effort, according to African Union, AU, Spokesperson, Janet Byaryhanga, is to help reduce import of pharmaceutical products into the continent from other developed nations, to engage experts in the pharmaceutical sector all over the world in order to address those involved in policy formulation in the health, finance and other sectors so as to provide all that are needed to drive the local pharmaceutical industry in Africa. [Read More] Declaring open the 15th Ordinary Meeting of the Assembly of Health Ministers of ECOWAS at the City Hall, the President of the Republic of Liberia, Her Excellency, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, told participants that achieving Universal Health Coverage by ECOWAS countries is a daunting task not only because it takes time and perseverance, it also involves accessibility, affordability and quality of service. [Read More]
Providing West African communities with sound information crucial to curbing spread of Ebola – UN4/14/2014
Together with Ministries of Health and other partners across seven countries in West Africa, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is using culturally-sensitive communication strategies to disseminate life-saving information in order to contain the often-fatal Ebola virus, through text-messaging, radio shows, TV programmes and door-to-door campaigns. [Read More]
Participants at the just ended southern and eastern Africa regional meeting on the Global Fund’s new funding model have committed to ensure robust participation of women and adolescents in designing their plans as well as implementing gender-responsive programmes in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. [Read More]
Released in Johannesburg in early April, this is the first such review of its kind in a high burden African country, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). [Read More]
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