By: Malaria No More UK Tuesday 18th August: To keep the malaria fight alive and front of mind during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new team of global influencers are joining with youth champions behind the Zero Malaria Starts with Me campaign to inspire awareness and action this World Mosquito Day (August 20).
An information note released recently by the World Health Organisation suggests that if the COVID-19 pandemic led to a global reduction of 25% in expected TB detection for three months – levels of disruption in TB services being observed in multiple countries considered – then we could expect a
By: RBM Partnership to End Malaria On 2nd July 2018, at the 31st African Union Summit in Nouakchott, Mauritania, Africa Union Heads of State and Government endorsed the “Zero Malaria Starts with Me” campaign. This year, the global malaria community will celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the campaign and
By: Government of Rwanda Having adopted skills and expertise established to tackle the 2018 Ebola crisis, Rwanda has so far fundamentally controlled the spread of COVID-19. Soon after the COVID-19 outbreak in December 2019 and dreading its spread in the continent, Rwanda set up a multidisciplinary team to assess
OPINION PIECE By: Dr. Margaret Agama-Anyetei: Head, Health Nutrition and Population, African Union Commission, Department of Social Affairs The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a number of shortcomings in securing critical medical supplies in many African countries. Global competition and inaccessibility coupled with the increase in export restrictions has
