A new collaborative learning and practice platform dedicated to improving health care delivery in Africa is mobilizing powerful new multi-country partnerships and equipping frontline health workers to better combat devastating diseases like HIV, tuberculosis, cancer, cholera, and Ebola. On February 18-19, Project ECHO will conduct an immersion workshop training in Johannesburg, South Africa, for around…
Digital health technology could improve quality, patient safety in Africa
Despite high death rates due to injury, less than half of the Africans have access to modern health facilities, According to experts, a majority of these cases could be avoidable through the implementation of digital health technology, with out-of-hospital care and monitoring forecasted to grow globally by 30 per cent to cross the $25 billion…
Bill Gates to deliver remarks at the AU Summit 2019
Bill Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will deliver remarks at the African Union Summit 2019 and the first annual Africa Leadership Meeting set for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Speaking to an audience of Heads of State and Government, representatives of the African Union and business leaders, Gates will highlight the remarkable progress…
HelpAge International launches project to strengthen health systems for older people in Africa
The Governments of Kenya and Mozambique jointly with HelpAge International have launched a three-year project in Nairobi that will seek to make health systems in Africa more responsive to the health and care needs of older persons. The Better Health for Older Persons in Africa (BHOPA) project is funded by the Maxwell Harvey Legacy Grant,…
Ghana’s First Lady picked Nutrition Champion
Ghana’s first lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo has been made a Nutrition Champion by the African Leaders for Nutrition on Monday in acknowledgement of her work and commitment to sound nutrition and the wellbeing of mothers and infants. The ALN initiative is a platform for high-level advocacy and engagement to advance nutrition in Africa, endorsed by the…
Kenya: NCDs leading cause of death of older people, Global AgeWatch Insights report reveals
The number of deaths attributable to non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Kenya is on the rise, according to the Kenya findings of Global AgeWatch Insights 2018, a new report from HelpAge International and AARP. Kenya has seen an increase of cases of non-communicable diseases, with the Ministry of Health reporting they are responsible for over 55%…
Global health leaders celebrate immunization
More than 300 leaders from the global health community, including representatives from governments, civil society and the private sector met in Abu Dhabi, UAE to celebrate the 700 million children immunised and 10 million lives saved in the world’s poorest countries thanks to Gavi support since 2000. Partners at the Gavi Mid-Term Review took stock…
NCDs Debilitating Africans over 60, Global AgeWatch Insights reveals
By Adlyne Wangusi Africans are more likely to live with disabilities caused by non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in their later years than any other health problem, a new joint report by the HelpAge International and AARP reveals. According to Global AgeWatch Insights, studies from around the world show that NCDs, like Cancers, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases (like…