Expanding vaccine production in Africa, now a key objective for the continent, will require a highly skilled workforce with the necessary expertise. This is why BACKUP Health is supporting vaccine production-related further education and training through the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. The recent African Advanced Vaccinology course is one example.
With much publicity, the world’s population reached eight billion on 15th November 2022. What has been much less publicised is that at least a billion of these people live with disabilities – an enormous group that, according to the just launched WHO Global Report on Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities, is often underserved or overlooked when it comes to health care.
Convincing communities that vaccines are safe and countering misinformation is a major challenge to public health efforts all around the world. In this Healthy Developments podcast we hear about some innovative ways of overcoming those challenges in Malawi.
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments around the world to send whole populations into lockdown.
Not long ago in Nepal, like in many other lower-middle income countries, healthcare waste – from personal protective equipment, such as gloves and gowns, to used swabs and bandages, expired drugs, needles, laboratory reagents and chemicals – was simply dumped behind health facilities, mixed with general waste and sent to landfills, or openly burned.
A podcast on why Covid-19 must not divert attention and resources from other infectious disease challenges in Africa.
In Pakistan a GIZ project reinvents its approach to capacity development – with considerable success!
