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Risk assessment for the EU/EEA of the mpox epidemic caused by monkeypox virus clade I in affected African countries

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ecdc) (2024) CC

The monkeypox virus (MPXV) clade I epidemic that has been affecting the Democratic Republic of the Cong ... more

Vector control and the elimination of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis

World Health Organization World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

The main purpose of the meeting was to review tsetse control tools, activities and their contribution to the elimination of gHAT and the monitoring thereof. Seven endemic countries provided reports ... more

WHO Director-General declares mpox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has determined that the upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic ... more

Emergence of Zaire Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea — Preliminary Report

S. Baize; D. Pannetier; L. Oesterreich, et al. (2014)

The New England Journal of Medicine Genetic analysis of the virus indicates that it is closely related (97% identical) to variants of Ebola virus ... more

Fexinidazole for Human African Trypanosomiasis, the Fruit of a Successful Public-Private Partnership.

Bernhard, S.; Kaiser, M.; Burri, C.; Mäser, P. Diseases (2022) CC

After 100 years of chemotherapy with impractical and toxic drugs, an oral cure for human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is available: Fexinidazole. In this case, we review the history of drug discove ... more

Strategic Framework for Enhancing Prevention and Control of mpox, 2024-2027

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

Mpox continues to affect people around the world. A new framework released today by WHO will guide health authorities, communities and other stakeholders in preventing and controlling mpox outbreaks, eliminating human-to-human transmission of the di ... more

West & Central Africa HIV catch-up - WHO in an era of transformation

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The Transformation Agenda (TA) ushered in an ambitious reform process intended to transform the World Health Organization (WHO) into an organization that is proactive, results-driven, accountable and which meets stakeholder expectations, towards transforming and improving public health services in t ... he African Region. It aimed to achieve a WHO that is pro-results, which optimally and creatively targets technical work as well as make operations more responsive, with greater effectiveness in both communications and partnerships. The Africa Region has been the epicentre of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic and it’s one of the leading causes of disease and death on the continent. The WHO, with partners, has worked tirelessly for many years to control the threat and reduce the negative impact of the disease. Since the early 2000s, significant progress has been made in the global fight against the scourge of HIV. However, the WCA subregion was falling concerningly behind ESA on several key indicators of progress. In 2016, the WHO joined UNAIDS, UNICEF and other partners in a call for a strong and urgent response to support WCA countries to develop catch-up plans to triple and fast-track ART coverage, to enable the region to catch up with ESA by the end of 2020. Implementation of a widespread test-and-treat strategy, coupled with the scale-up of differentiated service delivery (DSD) and mobilization of requisite funding, accelerated WCA’s progress towards this goal. The HIV treatment catch-up and fast-track plan has achieved its target of seeing the West and Central African region (WCA) catch up with the Eastern and Southern African region’s (ESA) antiretroviral coverage rate of 78% in 2021, albeit later than the 2020 target time frame. A 33% improvement was achieved in WCA, against 21% in ESA, between 2015–2020. WCA achieved a significant 42% increase, compared to ESA’s 23%, between 2015 and 2021, to see WCA draw level with ESA at 78%. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) alone, progress of up to 47% was observed between 2015 and 2020, for example. In addition, 1.6 million more People Living with HIV (PLHIV) were enrolled on antiretroviral treatment (ART) between 2015 and 2020. more

Democratic Repub. of Congo | Urban health profile

World Health Organization (WHO) (2016) C_WHO

Refugee and Migrant Health System Review: Challenges and Opportunities for Long-term Health system Strengthening in Uganda

Government of Uganda; World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

Uganda is Africa's largest refugee-hosting country and ranks fifth globally. Over the decades, Uganda has hosted refugees from nations including South Sudan, the Democratic Republic ... more

Banso Tolonga – COVID-19 Rumor Tracking Bulletin

Internews (2021) CC

The project aims to build trust around COVID-19 vaccines to ensure greater access to and uptake in the vaccines through establishing healthy information ecosystems to address mis- and disinformation and vaccine hesitancy in the Democratic ... more

WHO AFRO Outbreaks and Other Emergencies, Week 42: 12-18 October 2020

World Health Organization WHO (2020) C_WHO

The WHO Health Emergencies Programme is currently monitoring 118 events in the region. This week’s main articles cover the following events: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Togo Measles in Chad Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Équateur Province, ... more

Health Sector Integrated Refugee Response Plan 2019 - 2024

Uganda Government (OPM) (2022) CC

Uganda hosts approximately 1.1 million refugees making it Africa’s largest refugee hosting country and one of the five largest refugee hosting countries in the world. Most recently, throughout 2016- 2018, Uganda was impacted by three parallel emer ... more

WHO AFRO Outbreaks and Other Emergencies, Week 13: 25 - 31 March 2019; Data as reported by 17:00; 31 March 2019

World Health Organization WHO (2019) C_WHO

Response to the tropical cyclone in southern Africa Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the ... more

Welthungerindex: Transformation der Ernährungssysteme und lokale Governance Synopsis

Concern Worldwide; Welthungerhilfe e.V. (2022) C2

This is the seventeenth annual publication of the Global Hunger Index (GHI), a report jointly published by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe. The 2022 Global Hunger Index (GHI) brings us face to face with a grim reality. The toxic cocktail ... more

Epidemiological Update Mpox in the Americas Region - 17 August 2024

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2024) C_WHO

Download (419.34 KB) On 14 August 2024, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) determined that the resurgence of Mpox in the Democra ... more

Fexinidazole for T.b. gambiense (Sleeping Sickness)

Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative DNDi (2022) C2

DNDi is now striving to make fexinidazole available to the majority of people who have T.b. gambiense sleeping sickness. We are supporting a three-year access and pharmacovigilance study that began in 2020 and have so far carried out in-coun ... more

South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan, January 2019- December 2020

UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR (2019) C1

UNHCR, the UN Refuge Agency, and NGO partners are launching an appeal for US$2.7 billion to address the live-saving humanitarian needs of South Sudanese refugees in 2019 and 2020. Five years on since the onset ... more

2022 Global Hunger Index: Food systems transformation and local governance -Synopsis

Concern Worldwide; Welthungerhilfe e.V. (2022) C2