A new Global Investment Framework for Women's and Children's Health demonstrates how investment in women's and children's health will secure high health, social, and economic returns. [Read More]
A two day regional sensitization meeting by the ECOWAS Commission for the extensive use of biolarvicide for the eradication of malaria in Africa, aiming at applying the vector control approach has ended at Abidjan in Cote D’voire.
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) has concluded that vector control is the only intervention capable of militating against malaria transmission, reinforcing the ECOWAS resolve at strengthening the strategy to complement other interventions for a successful outcome. [Read More] New Funding Model, by Region
From Namibia to Ecuador, Senegal and Jamaica, partners in the global effort to defeat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria are busy this month holding consultations at regional meetings about the new funding model that is now being fully implemented by the Global Fund. The meetings are inclusive, stressing the need to deepen partnerships to achieve the most effective impact. Dialogue in Dakar At the regional meeting in Dakar, Senegal, more than 250 participants from 20 countries in Western and Central Africa put special focus on how issues of gender, maternal and child health and respect for human rights should be fully integrated into the new funding model, including the development of a concept note to apply for funding. The words “partnership” and “dialogue” were frequently used. [Read More] Cost of Hunger in Africa Study: A Regional Look at the Price of child undernutrition in Africa4/10/2014
The first report of the Cost of Hunger in Africa (COHA) Study that unveils the crushing impact of child undernutrition on the economies of four African countries was launched today in Abuja, Nigeria during a high level event organized on the sidelines of the Seventh Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. [Read More]
In Kenya and across Africa, neglected tropical diseases are a daily reality for many children, families and communities.
Despite efforts to control and eliminate them, trachoma, human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis (river blindness), soil-transmitted helminths, schistosomiasis and visceral leishmaniasis continue to threaten Kenya’s citizens. [Read More] Satellite and other new technologies could be deployed to help predict disease outbreaks and give us more time to devise strategies to counteract them, suggests the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which cites examples of how weather information can be used in the battle against deadly pathogens. [Read More]
Urbanization Provides Unprecedented Opportunities to Transition to a Green Economy, Says New Report4/10/2014
Medellin — As Consumers of Over 75% of Natural Resources, Cities Are Uniquely Placed to Contribute to Efficiency and Sustainability.
In this context, a new report launched jointly today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Cities Alliance at the 2014 World Urban Forum finds that the rapid pace of urbanization represents an opportunity to build more sustainable, innovative and equitable towns and cities, and to use the world's natural resources more efficiently. [Read More] The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has issued its first guidelines for the treatment of hepatitis C, a chronic infection that affects an estimated 130 million to 150 million people, in a bid to help improve access to more effective and safer medicines to those who need them. [Read More]
More than 100 people have died from Ebola in the West African countries Guinea and Liberia, the World Health Organization has said. International aid organizations try to stop the disease from spreading further. [Read More]
Luanda will host on 14-17 April the first meeting of the African Health Ministers, in a joint promotion of the World Health Organization (WHO) and African Union Commission, under the auspices of the Angolan government.
The meeting, to take place under the topic "Let's Turn Africa into a Healthier Continent", will count on the participation of 300 delegates, including health ministers, experts and international partners. [Read More] |