In Africa, innovative #digitalhealth services, like , are helping to:
✅ Improve access to healthcare for rural populations
✅ Reduce the costs of medical services
✅ Advance the continent's achievement of #SDG3
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The introductory session has began with opening remarks from our DD- Policy Advocacy Communications, Behaviour Insights, , welcoming , Chief Communications Officer, and , Director of Policy & Advocacy . #InsightsToImpact #Aksha
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It’s great to work with to strengthen health systems on the continent through integrated approaches. 👏
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Over the years, we have worked with @gatesfoundation + partners to set up Polio Outbreak Control Rooms (POCRs) across Africa.
The POCRs strengthen the government's coordination + ability to combat polio + other vaccine-preventable diseases.
Learn more:
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Polio cases in Africa have decreased by more than 99.9% since 1988, thanks to immunization efforts that have reached nearly 3 billion children. 📉
At , we continue to deliver safe and effective vaccines to #EndPolio for good. 🌍
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“When we move, we move as a team.” 🤝
In conversation with , explains how African states are working together to strengthen #healthsystems and build capacity through support networks. #BetterHealthForAll
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To help achieve #HealthForAll in Africa by 2030, argues that African countries can step-up efforts to #EndCholera by:
🏫 Increasing community engagement
💧 Developing water and hygiene infrastructure
💉 Providing oral cholera vaccines
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✅ Cross-border collaboration
✅ Community engagement
✅ Mobilizing capacities
As Uganda’s successful #Ebola response showed, the above practices are instrumental for African countries to strengthen their #healthsecurity. Dr. explains more:
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Neglected tropical diseases like African River Blindness threaten the health of more than a billion people around the world–but they don’t have to in the future. With the right investments, these diseases can be beaten in our lifetimes.
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To #EndMalaria in Africa by 2030, it’s critical for communities to work together.
New research from shows how community health workers in Africa can play a crucial role in administering vital #antimalarial drugs. 💊bit.ly/3W5VIHv
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Looking forward to the #AHAIC2023 in March which will bring together diverse stakeholders from around the world to discuss challenges and opportunities for improving #health in Africa.
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SAVE THE DATE: 5=8TH March 2023.
The #AHAIC2023 will bring together leaders, policymakers, CSOs, innovators, the private sector, researchers and youth advocate to exchange inclusive health ideas for a healthy and sustainable Africa.
Join us!
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This #WorldNTDDay, is calling for comprehensive and universal care for #AllAfricans affected by neglected tropical diseases. 🦟
Let’s #ActNowActTogether to control, eliminate, and eradicate NTDs to achieve #SDG3.
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“When countries prepare consistently and act decisively, they can prevent epidemics.”
Let’s continue stepping-up investments in the continent's #healthsystems and frontline health workers to ensure a #HealthierTomorrow for Africa. 💪
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To strengthen Africa's efforts to #EndMalaria, is urging leaders in Africa and worldwide to #SpeedUpScaleUp the provision of vital, preventative #antimalarial treatments to mothers and babies - who are especially vulnerable to the disease. 🤰
endmalaria.org/speed-up-scale
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Today's #InternationalDayofEducation highlights the importance of striving for #inclusive and #equitable education to advance Africa's progress toward the . 👩🏫
To invest in people, prioritize education.
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A strong health care system is fundamental to Africa’s prosperity. At a session titled “Health is wealth and stability: investing in health care to build a more prosperous Africa." With
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According to , Africa produces less than 0.1 per cent of the global vaccine supply.
As explained by in , investments in Africa’s #vaccine manufacturing capacity can help develop resilient #healthsystems on the continent.
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Need for resilient, equitable, sustainable health systems for UHC & global security is evident now more than ever. Great to see GoJapan’s continuing high level leadership on this from the PM. #G7JPN
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This new roadmap to strengthen Africa's public health institutions by the will help Africa:
✅ Achieve #healthsecurity and #selfreliance
✅ Foster innovation
✅ Save lives
Africa CDC's acting director, , explains how. ⬇️
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Investments in local manufacturing, such as these new cancer diagnostic tests developed in Morocco by , are vital to building Africa's #NewPublicHealthOrder.
Only through local solutions can the continent achieve health #selfsufficiency.
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As we embark on 2023, this year's Annual Letter from discusses:
🌍 The 's approach to ensuring that everyone, everywhere, has a chance to live a healthy, productive life
🤝 The foundation's Annual Budget, and how it will be used to realize the above goal
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Overlapping crises are rolling back a decade of progress in global health and development & have taken a severe toll on the world's poorest people. In response, @gatesfoundation is increasing its commitment to ensure everyone has a chance to live a healthy, productive life
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Reaching zero-dose children with #vaccines in hard-to-reach areas across the continent is critical for Africa to #EndPolio for good.
This #GPEI report explains how strengthened immunization programs helped Nigeria to reduce its polio cases in 2022. 👇
polioeradication.org/news-post/poli
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A new study by has shown that a new three-dose #malaria vaccine has demonstrated safety and efficacy when tested on adults in #BurkinaFaso. 👏
R&D progress, like this, is key to strengthening Africa's ongoing fight to #EndMalaria.
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We, at , wish everyone a warm holiday period.
I will be pausing activity on this account until after the New Year.
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As #malaria continues to pose a significant health challenge for Africa, Special Ambassadors underscore the importance of:
📈 Boosting domestic investments
👩🔬 Investing in new approaches and innovations
✅ Improving the use of existing tools
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Nigeria's malaria prevalence is declining, according to . 👏📉
The key to this success was the use of preventive measures, such as insecticide-treated nets. Let's continue investing in R&D to ensure our #EndMalaria goal remains in sight.
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"Young people are Africa's and the world's greatest untapped resource."
of explains the role young people can have to ensure Africa's leaders maintain their commitment to #EndMalaria. 🌍
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The , alongside , will provide US$30 million to support partners and in their efforts to manufacture affordable vaccines in Africa. 👏
Collaboration and funding are key to securing Africa's health self-sufficiency.
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CEPI & The @GatesFoundation will provide US$30 million to support vaccine technology transfer from @SerumInstIndia to @aspenpharma to manufacture routine and outbreak vaccines in Africa, for Africa 
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With support from partners, such as , officials are using portable digital chest X-rays to spot early signs of tuberculosis.
Investments in #HealthTech, like this, are key to strengthen Africa's efforts to #EndTB for good. 🌍
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"Investing in African health systems means investing in Africa's future."
As today's #UHCDay highlights, striving to achieve universal health coverage for #AllAfricans will enable us to build a more prosperous and equitable future for all. 🌍🏥
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African countries continue to experience the highest TB burden in the world.
Despite this, 's Morounfolu Olugbosi highlights areas of progress towards eliminating the disease on the continent, such as greater political will to invest in health.
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Too many people in Africa have limited access to quality health care, and COVID-19 has further exacerbated these problems. Let's rally around the #AddisDeclaration on Immunization to keep Africa's children healthy #DakarVxForum2022 #EndPolio
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As South Africa continues to struggle with limited access to safe drinking water, sanitation scientist, Dr. Arumugam-Nanoolal, examines how alternative #sanitation technologies to flushing toilets can contribute to better health outcomes. 👩🔬🚽
#WASH4ALL
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This newly launched 'Adopt A Private Health Facility' project aims to strengthen the capacity of health facilities, by targeting the country's healthcare value chain. 🏥
Innovative solutions, like this, are key for Nigeria to achieve its goal of #UHC.
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Today, we have many tools for preventing, testing, and treating #HIV. 💊
Despite this, discusses how inequalities are slowing Africa's progress toward elimination, as Africans continue to be disproportionately affected by the disease.
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