Report: Virtual Meeting on The African COVID-19 Vaccine Financing and Deployment Strategy
Key points • The COVID-19 pandemic has caused devastation on the African continent, with more than 3.4 million confirmed cases and nearly 87,000 COVID-19 deaths to date; it has also severely impacted the continental economy, education, health programmes and other elements critical to Africa’s Agenda 2063. • Since the beginning of the pandemic, the African […]
Call for Review of the African Antibiotic Treatment Guidelines for Common Bacterial Infections and Syndromes
Instructions for External Review: The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) in collaboration with the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) are developing African Antibiotic Treatment Guidelines for Common Bacterial Infections and Syndromes (First Edition) for publication in 2021. The purpose of these guidelines is to provide healthcare workers across […]
Africa Regulatory Taskforce has Endorsed the Emergency Used Listing for Two Versions of the AstraZeneca-Oxford Vaccine
Africa Regulatory Taskforce has Endorsed the Emergency Used Listing for Two Versions of the AstraZeneca-Oxford Vaccine (AstraZeneca-SKBio in South Korea and Serum Institute of India) The Africa Regulatory Taskforce is a joint effort established by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) coordinated African Medicines Regulatory […]
Statement on the Efficacy of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) against the SARS-CoV-2 Variants
Context: Many countries in Africa are managing the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. There have been over 3.6 million cases and over 96,000 deaths reported on the continent since the first official case was reported on the continent on 14 February 2020. The continent’s case fatality rate of 2.6 percent is above the global […]
Questions and answers on COVID-19 vaccine
How do vaccines work? Vaccines work by tricking your body into thinking it has been infected with a disease-causing organism (also called germs) such as a virus, prompting it to develop an immune reaction to the organism itself. This can be done in many different ways including growing the germ in a laboratory and then […]
COVID-19 MANAGMENT: Curriculum for Community Health Workers
OVERVIEW: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), sub-Saharan Africa has only 3% of the world’s health workers to cater for 11% of the world population, bearing over 25% of the global disease burden (WHO, 2014). With a steady increase in reported cases on the African Continent, the current COVID-19 pandemic threatens to overwhelm our […]
Webinar Series on Mental Health Aspects of COVID-19
Topic: Sleep in the Time of COVID-19 (Practical Tips for Improving & Optimizing sleep)Date: Thursday 5 November 2020Time: 4:00 5:30 pm (East Africa Time / GMT+3)
WEBINAR SERIES ON MENTAL HEALTH ASPECTS OF COVID-19
WEBINAR SERIES ON MENTAL HEALTH ASPECTS OF COVID-19Topic: Practical Mental Health Considerations for Healthcare Staff during COVID-19
Ensuring COVID-19 vaccine preparedness through community engagement
Ensuring COVID-19 vaccine preparedness through community engagement: Lesson from adult female vaccination programmes in Africa Date: Wednesday, 19 August 2020Time: 12:00 – 13:30 East Africa Time
Guidance on Setting Up an Isolation Ward for COVID-19 Cases
Scope: The number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in Africa is increasing, and in many countries the number of cases has surpassed the number of available hospital beds. Because of the surge many countries are using tents or converting existing buildings into isolation wards. This document simplifies the WHO guidance on severe acute respiratory […]