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Kampala, Uganda — Africa’s restricted pharmaceutical trade, excessive prices of uncooked supplies, and dependence on imported medicines have lengthy hampered residents’ entry to the medicines they want. The challenges the continent faces are daunting. They embody poor provide chain techniques, lack of presidency funding within the pharmaceutical sector, unfavourable manufacturing …

There’s nothing fairly like a brand new 12 months to immediate us to take inventory of our lives, our well being, our objectives – and our funds. Many individuals will begin 2023 by considering how finest to price range, plan and save. That is at all times a very good …

Hundreds of public well being leaders and clinicians from Africa and the world gathered in Kigali, Rwanda, on December 13-15, for the 2nd Worldwide Convention on Public Well being (CPHIA) in Africa. The convention theme was “Preparedness for future Pandemic and Put up-Pandemic Restoration: Africa at a Crossroad”. A significant …

Ukraine desires to rekindle its presence on a continent the place Russia already has important investments and affect. However how do African nations view Ukraine’s diplomatic initiative? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lately introduced that new embassies could be opened on the African continent in first quarter of 2023. “We’re restarting …

By Chakib Jenane As a central pillar of African diets for 1000’s of years, millet has a prized place as one of many continent’s most necessary crops. And with the onset of local weather change, millet provides precious safety to the continent’s smallholder farmers because of the crop’s tolerance for dry …

In 2020, we knew little or no concerning the novel virus that was to change into referred to as COVID-19. Now, as we enter 2023, a search of Google Scholar produces round five million results containing the time period. So how will the pandemic be felt in 2023? This query …

By Guy Dinmore Elephant populations are beginning to get well in elements of Africa as regulation enforcement businesses and native communities flip the tide of their long-running battle in opposition to wildlife poachers and traffickers. However felony gangs are continuously shifting techniques and exploiting different species, whereas the best menace now’s …

Within the waning hours of the 12 months’s greatest local weather change convention — COP27 — we realized of a deal to create a loss and harm fund. That is basically a supply of finance to compensate poor nations for the ache they’re incurring due to local weather change. An …

Regardless of robust proof that human exercise performed a task in catastrophic climate occasions, and the emergence of a gasoline disaster sparked by the struggle in Ukraine, greenhouse fuel emissions continued to rise. However, the UN saved the local weather emergency excessive on the worldwide agenda, reaching main agreements on …

The UN warned that the COVID-19 pandemic remains to be a trigger for world concern, and outbreaks of cholera, Ebola and Monkeypox (now renamed mpox) led to the mobilization of well being and help employees to comprise life-threatening sicknesses. The UN warned that the goal of eradicating HIV/AIDS by 2030 …

A grave safety menace, however not essentially on par with the US, European Union and China. That is how some are describing Russia’s involvement on the continent. And it is the query the South African Institute of Worldwide Affairs (SAIIA) wished to reply with their newest journal, entitled Russia in …

Covid-19 has had profound implications for the “role of business in society“. One among them is the pandemic’s impact on firms’ sustainability methods. These are efforts to keep away from firms’ dangerous impacts on the atmosphere and communities, and to reinforce the optimistic impacts. The pandemic could trigger firms to …