Africa: Facing Debt, Donor Retreat, Africa Needs United Response – UN Warns

Africa: Facing Debt, Donor Retreat, Africa Needs United Response – UN Warns

ADDIS ABABA- The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) suggested African countries to strengthen their economic diplomacy in home-grown expertise and credible evidence as debt crisis and donor retreat intensifies. In a briefing to the Africa Group of ambassadors at United Nations (UN) headquarters, the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Executive Secretary Claver Gatete…

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Africa: Facing Debt, Donor Retreat, Africa Needs United Response – UN Warns

Africa Launches Continental Strategy to Decentralize Diagnostics and Accelerate Outbreak Response

Yaoundé, Cameroon — In a major step toward faster and more localized outbreak response, Africa CDC convened public health leaders from ten African countries in Yaoundé to co-develop a continental framework for decentralizing laboratory services. The four-day workshop, which began on 14 July, placed equitable access to diagnostics at the core of Africa’s epidemic preparedness…

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Africa: Facing Debt, Donor Retreat, Africa Needs United Response – UN Warns

Africa: Emergency Vaccine Response Has Cut Infectious Disease Deaths By Nearly 60 Percent Since 2000

Geneva — Researchers at Burnet Institute, in collaboration with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, have provided the world’s first ever look at the historical impact of emergency vaccination efforts on public health and global health security, with a comprehensive study of 210 outbreaks of five infectious diseases – cholera, Ebola, measles, meningitis and yellow fever –…

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Democrats struggle to come up with a unified response to Trump’s Iran strikes

Democrats struggle to come up with a unified response to Trump’s Iran strikes

They condemned. They sidestepped. They offered support. What Democrats didn’t do in the wake of President Donald Trump’s decision to unilaterally greenlight military strikes on Iran was push a consistent, coherent message. In Congress, Democrats were all over the map on where they stood on Trump’s action. At the gubernatorial level, where many potential 2028…

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Africa: Facing Debt, Donor Retreat, Africa Needs United Response – UN Warns

Africa CDC Reports Daily Cholera Cases Decline in Amhara, Attributes Progress to Joint Response

Addis Abeba– Daily cholera cases in the Amhara Region have declined in recent weeks, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), which attributed the development to a “coordinated response” implemented jointly with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) and the Amhara Public Health Institute (APHI). Africa CDC said the deployment…

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