Tanzania reviews respiratory surveillance performance to strengthen health security

Tanzania reviews respiratory surveillance performance to strengthen health security

Morogoro – Health experts, epidemiologists, laboratory professionals and surveillance focal persons from across Mainland Tanzania and Zanzibar came together to review the performance of the country’s Respiratory Pathogens Sentinel Surveillance system and identify priorities to further strengthen its capacity to detect and respond to respiratory disease threats. 

Ten Africa countries sign agreement to strengthens cross-border cooperation for health emergencies

Ministers of Health from 10 African countries have signed a Cross-Border Collaboration Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen coordination, information-sharing and joint preparedness and response to public health emergencies across borders. The agreement provides a framework for countries to work together before, during and after emergencies, strengthen early detection and response, clarify roles and responsibilities, and support coordinated action along high-risk border areas.

Addis Ababa—Ministers of Health from 10 African countries have signed a Cross-Border Collaboration Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen coordination, information-sharing and joint preparedness and response to public health emergencies across borders. The agreement provides a framework for countries to work together before, during and after emergencies, strengthen early detection and response, clarify roles and responsibilities, and support coordinated action along high-risk border areas.

Tanzania strengthens emergency care through national implementation research through the ACTxBEC Data Collectors Training

Tanzania strengthens emergency care through national implementation research through the ACTxBEC Data Collectors Training

Dar es Salaam – The Government of Tanzania has strengthened preparations to generate evidence on the effectiveness of emergency care interventions across the country, following the training of 64 data collectors for the Acute Care Transformation through Basic Emergency Care (ACTxBEC) initiative. The data collectors will support a national implementation research study designed to assess how emergency care training can improve the recognition, assessment and management of life-threatening conditions at health facilities.

Nigeria advances early childhood development through primary health care

A child being measured at a heart care facility

Abuja – Every month at the Primary Health Care Centre in Ugbor, Oredo Local Government Area, Edo State, in southern Nigeria, mothers gather with their babies for routine immunization and growth monitoring services. Among them is Mrs Shegu Ritawaits who arrived one morning with her eight-month-old child expecting a routine clinic visit.

New equipment strengthens the capacity of Guinea-Bissau’s National Ophthalmology Service

pose for a group photograph outside the Ophthalmology Service at Simão Mendes National Hospital in Bissau.

Bissau—The initiative expands the resources available for eye examinations, diagnosis and treatment at Simão Mendes National Hospital.

The World Health Organization (WHO) handed over materials and equipment to the National Ophthalmology Service, based at Simão Mendes National Hospital in Bissau.

The equipment, valued at a total of US$151,863, was procured under the National Health System Strengthening Project, funded by the African Development Bank in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health.