Podcasts – Healthy DEvelopments

Podcast: ‘Dance Like Everyone’s Washing’

Healthy DEvelopments — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 09:41:38 +0000

The popular saying ‘dance like nobody’s watching’ has been turned on its head by Dance4WASH’s award-winning campaign inviting young people in Africa to ‘dance like everyone’s washing’. Listen to the podcast on…

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Podcast: Building Africa’s vaccinology expertise and leadership

Healthy DEvelopments — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 13:01:24 +0000

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.

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Reimagining health systems for a billion people with disabilities

Healthy DEvelopments — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 09:58:48 +0000

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.

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Tackling vaccine hesitancy in Malawi

Healthy DEvelopments — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 07:11:50 +0000

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.

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openIMIS: How a digital global good is transforming the delivery of social protection around the world

Healthy DEvelopments — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 10:06:11 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments around the world to send whole populations into lockdown.

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Tackling healthcare waste on the top of the world

Healthy DEvelopments — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 04:22:01 +0000

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.

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Time to keep an eye on the bigger picture of infectious diseases

Healthy DEvelopments — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 23:28:00 +0000

A podcast on why Covid-19 must not divert attention and resources from other infectious disease challenges in Africa.

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Training hospitals in costing in the midst of a pandemic

Healthy DEvelopments — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 07:42:33 +0000

In Pakistan a GIZ project reinvents its approach to capacity development – with considerable success!

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