Accra/Brazzaville – Ghana today declared the end of the Marburg virus disease outbreak that was confirmed nearly two months ago. It was the first time the highly infectious haemorrhagic fever was detected in the West African country.

It has been over two years since the World Health Organization (WHO) sounded the alarm on COVID-19. In March 2020, the virus Rwanda had apprehensively watched from afar had emerged on its doorstep.

Few could have imagined how life would change. The handshakes once used with impunity became a deadly health risk. Cases rose rapidly and Rwanda’s leadership and frontline health workers toiled around the clock to contain the emergency. Despite the commendable work done by the government, health service delivery was gravely affected like in the rest of the World.

The Kingdom of Eswatini has once again hosted the East, Central, and Southern Africa College of Nursing (ECSACON) delegates for the 15th Biennial Scientific Conference and the 7th Quadrennial General Assembly.

Conakry : En Guinée, d’importants progrès ont été accomplis dans la lutte contre la poliomyélite. Toutefois, en dépit de ces progrès, des cas de poliovirus dérivés de la souche vaccinale type 2 ont été notifiés dans le pays en 2020-2021. 

Dar es Salaam: Last year, the United Nations passed a resolution on Global Drowning Prevention and the problem is now gaining importance among different sectors in Tanzania and East Africa countries that share the Lake Victoria, the second biggest fresh water lake in the world.

GOBABIS- Thirty four year-old Erwin Meroro believed he would never get sick with COVID until he was hospitalized with the disease for over two months in the Gobabis State hospital. Meroro, the patient with the longest hospital admission for COVID-19 at Gobabis State hospital narrowly escaped death. That experience changed his perspective on COVID-19 and life. 

When Dr Ifeolu Oyedele first learned that he would be going for training on the World Health Organization (WHO)’s ‘Clinical handbook for the health care of survivors subjected  to intimate partner violence and/or sexual violence’ he did not think he would learn anything new from the session.

A reactive measles vaccination campaign targeting 37 390 children aged between 6 months to 14 years is underway this week in Juba County.

The campaign that started on 5 September 2022 is being implemented by the Ministry of Health with support from WHO and partners in Kator, Rajaf payams and two IDP sites in Juba.

^{By Vivian Mugarisi}

Mutare, Zimbabwe - Surveillance is a vital tool to provide crucial information that shapes the public health interventions. Sturdy information management systems are crucial for analysing and managing data from multisector antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance systems.