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Fifteen service categories, comprising a total of 110 interventions, have been identified in Africa as priorities for delivery through Community Health Workers. Now, health economists are analyzing the cost of each package to determine how it can transform health outcomes across the continent. The Health Economics and Financing Division, along with the Division of Community […]

The US is the second largest greenhouse gas emitter and by far the highest historical emitter in the world. ADVERTISEMENT Just days before COP29 began in Baku, Donald Trump won the US election.  Trump is a known climate change denier having repeatedly called global warming a hoax and pledged to once again withdraw the US

President-elect Donald Trump has asked U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz, a retired Army National Guard officer and war veteran, to be his national security adviser, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. The nod came despite simmering concerns on Capitol Hill about Trump tapping members of the House, where the final tally is still uncertain

Nearly five years into the pandemic, COVID is feeling less central to our daily lives. But the virus, SARS-CoV-2, is still around, and for many people the effects of an infection can be long-lasting. When symptoms persist for more than three months after the initial COVID infection, this is generally referred to as long COVID.

Mpox, a viral infection that was previously known as monkeypox, is spread primarily through close contact with an infected person. ADVERTISEMENT Mpox cases in Congo appear to be “plateauing” where a new variant was first detected, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The UN health body said in a situation report that the number of

A senior Somali official insisted Saturday that Ethiopia will not participate in a new African Union peacekeeping mission starting in January. The two nations remain deadlocked over a Memorandum of Understanding that Ethiopia signed with the breakaway region, Somaliland, earlier this year. “I can say that Ethiopia is the only government we know of so

Updated: 11/11/2024 – 16:25 GMT+1 Friedi Kuehne and Lukas Irmler, two German slackline athletes, set a new world record by walking a slackline stretched between two hot air balloons at an altitude of 2,500 metres, surpassing the previous record of 1,900 metres set in Brazil in 2021. Friedi Kuehne and Lukas Irmler, two German slackline

Africa has increased technical capacity for diagnosing infectious diseases since the COVID-19 epidemic but with ongoing outbreaks of diseases there is an urgent need to address the gaps in diagnostic capacity and disease surveillance says new research published in the journal, Frontiers Public Health. Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) says the

The private equity business is reported to be looking for a buyer to take on its majority stake in Genetic Group, an Italian pharmaceutical contract manufacturing company. ADVERTISEMENT Luxembourg-based private equity group CVC Capital Partners is reported to be looking for a buyer for its majority stake in Genetic Group, according to the Financial Times.

South Africa’s finance minister, Enoch Godongwana, announced in his October mid-term budget policy statement that cabinet had approved funding for an early retirement programme to reduce the public sector wage bill. R11 billion (about US$627 million) will be allocated over the next two years to pay for the exit costs of 30,000 civil servants while