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Kigali - When the fourth COVID-19 wave hit the country in early 2022, Rwanda went through a surge in the number of new cases with a spike in the number of deaths. To avoid reliving the experience seen during the third wave with a very high number of deaths daily in July 2021, something had to be done, but what? Rwanda’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic had already been rapid, cross-cutting, structured, and well-coordinated.  

To increase access to the much-needed health care services and improve the health situation among the internally displaced people and host communities in the hard-to-reach villages of Sirimon and Kuda in South Sudan’s Central Equatoria State, the World Health Organization (WHO) has deployed an emergency mobile medical team to conduct integrated medical mobile services to save lives.

World TB Day was commemorated on 24 March 2022 in Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea.   The theme of World TB Day for 2022 was “Invest to end TB. Save lives”. TB is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide and millions of people continue to fall sick with TB each year. 

Maseru – A multidisciplinary team of four experts from WHO-AFRO, the South African National Bioinformatics Institute, and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD South Africa) has arrived in Lesotho on a mission to assess the country’s readiness to launch the implementation of pathogen genomic surveillance, starting with SARS-CoV 2 genomic surveillance. This follows an earlier mission in December 2021 to conduct a countrywide situational analysis.

Abuja, 28 March, 2022 - Imagine a world where medical treatment of routine ailments or operations become life-threatening and stop responding to drugs. The seemly far-fetched scenario is becoming real and a danger to medical interventions with the emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).  

In the case of Yomi Ade (not real name), a 21- years old who lives in Ile -Ife, Osun State, had to spend 87 days in the hospital after being diagnosed with blood sepsis because his aliment was not responding to any of the medication administered. 

Abuja, 28 March, 2022 - “It’s hard to remember life without COVID-19 anymore, we have become so used to wearing masks and preventives that not doing so makes it look weird” says Dr Oje Uzochi, a Medical Officer at Asokoro General Hospital, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja.

Abuja, 25th March, 2021 - Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire says to progress on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the country recognizes the need to keep adolescents at the center of all programmes, centered around their health and development.