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About the session Across Africa and beyond, resilience is shaped by overlapping challenges including climate change, epidemic risk, fragile health systems,…

About the session Across Africa and beyond, resilience is shaped by overlapping challenges including climate change, epidemic risk, fragile health systems,…

With major issues still unresolved, civil society groups are urging African negotiators to hold the line for a binding system that links pathogen sharing to fair access to vaccines, treatments, and di...

DRC nears historic 14.5% Abuja target for health sovereignty

Weak Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing Annex could lead to repeat of vaccine apartheid.

Programme which supports schemes in six African countries was previously hailed as vital protection for Britain against future pandemics

Cholera, typhoid, dysentery and bilharzia are some of the diseases that follow floods.

Despite spending billions on health every year, many African health systems remain underfunded and heavily dependent on external assistance. Then, African leaders adopted the Abuja Declaration, which ...

A new £40 million climate-health initiative led by African universities aims to build a fortress of evidence to protect vulnerable populations.

CONTEXTCombating the several public health threats across the African continent requires adequately trained and equipped workforce. The Africa Health Security and Sovereignty (AHSS) Agenda has called ...

Across the African region, health threats are increasingly being detected early, bolstering measures to protect communities. To further reinforce health emergency preparedness, the World Health Organi...

The government of Zambia acknowledged this week that it is unhappy with part of a proposed health aid deal with the United States that “does not align with

By prioritizing primary health-care systems led by locals, the Lusaka Agenda can transition power back to Africa

It’s been a few days since I got back home after an intense — and deeply energizing — week advancing Africa’s resilience agenda. I kicked off in Freetown, Sierra Leone, supporting the launch of the R...

The African Medicines Agency (AMA) called on the 24 African member states that are yet to ratify the AMA Treaty to “act without delay” at a meeting on the

Opinion: Africa’s main health vulnerability isn't a shortage of funds — it’s a lack of efficiency. To finance its own resilience and reclaim its sovereignty, the continent doesn’t need to spend more, ...

"It's not if there will be another pandemic, but when it will happen." Dr Christian Happi and his team have just won a $100 million grant that enables them to expand their vital work to try to identif...

Across Africa, One Health is endorsed at the top but often breaks down where outbreaks start.

Climate change could lead to half a million more deaths from malaria in Africa over the next 25 years, according to new research.

The Government of Ethiopia has officially declared the end of its first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) following the completion of enhanced surveillance and the mandatory follow-up perio...

Africa has officially lifted Mpox as a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security following recommendations from the Africa CDC Emergency Consultative Group. The decision highlights the continent...

Progress in tackling major threats like Ebola are undermined by Western donors’ widespread retreat from aid funding

Analyses of mpox clades currently in circulation provide clues to how the virus managed to spread worldwide in 2022 — and how it might go global again.

‘I can’t just leave them’: Kenya’s health workers carry on without pay

Oladimeji Solomon Yemi (Lead writer)For decades, global health governance was shaped by aid flows, multilateral institutions, and shared norms of solidarity. Countries...

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Development does not begin in conference rooms or spreadsheets. It begins by listening, on the ground, to innovators driving change.

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