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AFHEA’s biennial conferences are important spaces for sharing WHO African Region’s research on health systems performance. This space is being used by the WHO Regional Africa Office for Africa’s health financing and economics programme, and has the potential for leveraging to share the work by other programmes on health systems and health services.
14 August – The World Health Organization (WHO) declares mpox a public health emergency of international concern for the second time in two years, following the spread of the virus in African countries. [22] 24 August – In Barsalogho, Burkina Faso, 600 civilians are victims of a massacre by Islamists associated with Al-Qaeda. [23]
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ogwell was essentially the chief of operations at the Africa CDC and also responsible for liaison with various partnerships. [7] [8] Ahmed has led the Africa CDC to advocate for the New Public Health Order, [9] which is a vision for Africa to reset its role in global health security. He has been and ...
On 12 August 2024, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention declared that the growing mpox outbreaks in Africa had become a public health emergency, with over 517 deaths being reported. As a result, the organization requested the help and intervention of the international community to control the spread of the virus and treat ...
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African Union member states had first considered the idea of establishing a continent wide public health agency in 2013 at an AU Special Summit on HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Abuja Nigeria (July 2013). The idea was proposed by the government of Ethiopia, then the Chair of the AU.
On 19 August 2024, the DRC's Ministry of Public Health, Samuel-Roger Kamba Mulamba , said in a press conference that all of the country's provinces, including the capital city of Kinshasa, had been affected by the outbreak, [26] while announcing that the national government would launch a €45 million response plan including awareness ...
Human Heredity and Health in Africa, or H3Africa, is an initiative to study the genomics and medical genetics of African people. Its goals are to build the continent's research infrastructure, train researchers and clinicians, and to study questions of scientific and medical interest to Africans. [ 1 ]