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.
Why Ecuador’s government and health workers are determined to make their health system more resilient – and how German technical cooperation supports this endeavour.
How and why German development cooperation invests, technically and financially, in local manufacturing of medical and pharmaceutical products.
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.
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.
A podcast on why Covid-19 must not divert attention and resources from other infectious disease challenges in Africa.
Liberian-German cooperation takes on new meaning in the era of COVID-19
Insights from implementing SORMAS in Nigeria and Ghana
Due to COVID-19 the German Epidemic Preparedness Team is working to capacity – and beyond
Africa’s largest ever cross-border field simulation exercise tests the gaps in pandemic preparedness
