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Nouvellement recrutés par le Ministère de la Santé, de l’Hygiène Publique et de la Couverture Maladie Universelle (MSHP-CMU), 136 Pharmaciens et Préparateurs Gestionnaires en Pharmacie (PGP), ont été formés sur la chaîne d’approvisionnement des produits de santé en Côte d’Ivoire. Cette formation, qui s’est déroulée du 18 juillet au 05 août 2022 à Abidjan, a bénéficié de l’appui financier de l’OMS dans le cadre d’un co-financement avec le Fonds mondial pour la lutte contre le VIH, la tuberculose et le paludisme.

Healthy life expectancy in the African region has increased on average by 10 years per person between 2000 and 2019, a World Health Organization (WHO) assessment reports. This rise is greater than in any other region of the world during the same period. The report also notes that the disruptive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic could threaten these huge gains.

Dr Francis Manyinza, a senior clinician at the Migori County Referral Hospital in southwestern Kenya, wasn’t surprised when lifelong tobacco farmer Petalis Ouma sought medical care for his chronic cough and ever-worsening chest pains. 

In 2018, 60-year-old James Kimeu Mulei suffered a badly broken ankle that left him unable to walk after a violent attack. A few years previously, this story could well have ended with a permanent injury that restricted Mulei’s ability to work and live a full life. 

Marlène Seck has brought her infant daughter to the Philippe Maguilene Senghor Health Centre in Yoff, Senegal, to be vaccinated against hepatitis B. The baby cries as she receives her jab, but the tears are worth it: having received her first dose at birth, this is her third dose of the life-saving vaccine.

When a man in Temessadou M’Boket – a village in the densely forested southern Guinea region – died in early August 2021 after suffering fever, headache and haemorrhage, Fassara Diawara, the head of a local clinic, was quick to act.