Africa’s SPARK-NCD Program to Tackle Noncommunicable Diseases Burden
As Africa undergoes profound epidemiological transition, life expectancy rises and health systems continue to improve, but Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) have emerged as a defining public health challenge. Cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases, and mental health conditions are rising rapidly across every region of the continent, increasingly affecting people in the prime of their […]
Giving Life to the Vulnerable and Underserved in Hard-to-reach Ethiopia
Africa CDC staff In 2022, 61-year-old Mr Mebrhatu Gebreegziabher received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine during the pandemic, and as a pensioner residing in the remote, hard-to-reach area of Agebe village, Tanqa Milash woreda, Tigray Region in the northern part of Ethiopia, he looked forward to receiving a second dose to further protect […]
The legacy of Cold Chain Equipment Optimization in Africa
COVID-19 health response lasts the mile on the continent | By Africa CDC staff In 2021, faced with the possibility of receiving up to 900 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to vaccinate 70% of Africa’s population, Dr John Nkengasong, the then Director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), tasked his […]
Outreach campaigns increasing access to reproductive health services for Kenyan women
By Sharon Atieno In her fourth month of pregnancy, Lilian Clinton, 35, a resident of Naningoi village, Kajiado county near Nairobi, Kenya had started experiencing severe headaches and difficulty in breathing. Work that she would do comfortably, became too difficult and strenuous. She would spend most of her time sleeping. A community health promoter (CHP) […]
Programme at the Core of Intervention against Cancer causing Virus
School girls in Kenya display their human papillomavirus (HPV) cards after vaccination | By Sharon Atieno It is almost 5pm in the evening, when we arrive at Oiti Glory Comprehensive School, Kajiado county, nearly 100km to the southeast of Nairobi. A team of health workers from the county government of Kajiado is packing their tools […]
From Hesitancy to Confidence
How community engagement changed vaccine uptake in Abuja community | Lara Adejoro In the early days of Nigeria’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign, one barrier proved more stubborn than supply chain logistics: public trust. From urban centres to rural communities, skepticism, misinformation, and historical grievances left many unwilling to get vaccinated. When the vaccination began in March […]
Woman Embarks on Farming after Losing Cows to Drought
By Diana Meneto For decades, the Maasai community has solely relied on livestock keeping as their source of income. This, however, has been greatly affected by climate change which has brought about frequent and severe droughts leading to water scarcity and pasture loss, which have caused loss of numerous livestock. Severe loss of livestock especially […]
Vaccination: La dose d’Africa CDC au Cameroun
Entre amélioration de la logistique, formation des personnels logisticiens et lutte contre la désinformation, entre autres, le projet SLL porté par cette organisation a considérablement contribué au renforcement de l’accès aux vaccins. Par Guy Martial Tchinda Porté par sa maman, Loïc Dongmo tète. Une « bouffée d’oxygène » pour oublier momentanément la douleur de l’injection […]
Cameroun: La couverture vaccinale améliorée grâce au programme SLL
Nadège Christelle BOWA Lancé en 2021 pour venir à bout de la pandémie de Covid-19, le programme « Saving lives and livelihoods (Sll) » (Sauver des vies et des moyens de subsistance), d’Africa Cdc et Mastercard foundation, semble avoir dépassé les objectifs fixés, comme le révèle une récente évaluation de la première phase de cette […]
Berthe Ngo Billong et Alihou Pantami: Mieux outillées pour une meilleure gestion des vaccins
Ces deux dames ont été nommées comme logisticiennes il y a une décennie pour la première et trois ans pour la deuxième. Sans expérience préalable, elles ont essuyé bien de difficultés avant de bénéficier d’une formation organisée dans le cadre de mise en place du projet Saving Lives and Livelihoods (SLL) – Sauver des vies […]