African Health Ministers Commit to Strengthen Emergency Preparedness and Response

African Health Ministers Commit to Strengthen Emergency Preparedness and Response

Lusaka — Across the African continent, fragile health systems are often the first to falter when crisis strikes, with profound impacts on lives and, livelihoods and health, and often times causing long-term socio-economic disruptions. Renewing efforts to protect communities from the growing threat of health emergencies, health ministers meeting for the Seventy-fifth session of the…

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African Health Ministers Commit to Strengthen Emergency Preparedness and Response

Africa: Madaniya* (Civic Politics) – Women Emergency Response Rooms As Flourishing Sites of Democracy in War Time Sudan

The Sudan War series is a joint collaboration between the Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation – Khartoum (CEDEJ-K), Sudan-Norway Academic Cooperation (SNAC) and African Arguments – Debating Ideas. Through a number of themes that explore the intersections of war, displacement, identities and capital, Sudanese researchers, many of whom are themselves displaced,…

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Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro says he’s deploying 4.5 million militia members in response to “outlandish threats” by U.S.

Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro says he’s deploying 4.5 million militia members in response to “outlandish threats” by U.S.

Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro on Monday said he would deploy 4.5 million militia members in response to “outlandish threats” by the United States after Washington raised the bounty for his arrest to $50 million and launched anti-drug operations in the Caribbean. “This week, I will activate a special plan with more than 4.5 million militiamen…

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African Health Ministers Commit to Strengthen Emergency Preparedness and Response

West Africa: To the Security Council, Special Representative Simão Calls for a Collective Response to Challenges in West Africa and the Sahel

The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, Leonardo Santos Simão, presented this Thursday to the United Nations Security Council the latest report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS), covering the period from 1 April to 31 July 2025….

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African Health Ministers Commit to Strengthen Emergency Preparedness and Response

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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African Health Ministers Commit to Strengthen Emergency Preparedness and Response

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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African Health Ministers Commit to Strengthen Emergency Preparedness and Response

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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