COVID-19: health sector responses – Healthy DEvelopments

Young Africans are stepping up in support of their continent’s New Public Health Order

Healthy DEvelopments — Wed, 10 May 2023 22:50:47 +0000

The Africa Centers of Disease Control and Prevention want to involve young Africans in public health governance. How did this come about and how will it work?

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The Bingwa Initiative – how young people have boosted Africa’s COVID-19 vaccination campaigns

Healthy DEvelopments — Mon, 08 May 2023 19:54:12 +0000

Across the African continent young volunteers have volunteered to accelerate the uptake of COVID-19 vaccinations. This Africa CDC initiative is a deliberate effort to ensure that Africa’s greatest asset - young people - are fully involved in, and own, their countries’ COVID-19 responses and recovery strategies.

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A new bio-security lab is boosting Ecuador’s pandemic preparedness

Healthy DEvelopments — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:52:38 +0000

Why Ecuador’s government and health workers are determined to make their health system more resilient - and how German technical cooperation supports this endeavour.

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Strengthening health value chains by partnering with the private sector in the SADC region

Healthy DEvelopments — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 21:01:51 +0000

How and why German development cooperation invests, technically and financially, in local manufacturing of medical and pharmaceutical products.

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A critical juncture for SORMAS: from national to regional outlook and beyond

Healthy DEvelopments — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 14:34:25 +0000

SORMAS (Surveillance Outbreak Response Management & Analysis System) is increasingly recognised as a digital system that can provide policy-relevant data and management support across the One Health domains - not only at local and national level, but potentially at regional and global levels too.

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A moonshot for Africa’s health security: Co-creating Africa’s own vaccine industry

Healthy DEvelopments — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 17:58:19 +0000

When health workers in African countries read the labels on the vaccine shots they administer - be they against measles or COVID-19 - they mostly find that they were produced on a different continent.

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Vaccine Equity: Have we passed the test?

Healthy DEvelopments — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 19:29:16 +0000

At the WHS 2021, a high-level panel considers achievements and shortfalls in the efforts of the international community to reach global vaccination targets

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A perfect synergy: Germany and WHO join forces to take laboratory diagnostics in Kyrgyzstan to the next level

Healthy DEvelopments — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 09:08:15 +0000

The spread of SARS-CoV-2 has put laboratories in Kyrgyzstan to the test. Since 2020, Germany has been part of a multi-partner effort to broaden and deepen testing capacity in the country, including the introduction of genetic sequencing.

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How can remote mental health services help meet refugees’ and host communities’ psychological needs?

Healthy DEvelopments — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:16:16 +0000

In the Middle East conflicts and COVID-19 have increased demands for mental health services – and made them very hard to deliver. A new study commissioned by GIZ on behalf of BMZ explores the potential of remote service provision.

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Young Malawians conquer the skies to deliver lifesaving medicines

Healthy DEvelopments — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 07:21:43 +0000

Thanks to the Drone and Data Aid project and its training academy, drones revolutionise access to medicines in hard-to reach rural areas of one of the world’s poorest countries.

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