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We propose a specialized summer training course on mathematical modelling of infectious diseases, focusing on Malaria, at the Center of Epidemiological and Modelling Analysis (CEMA), Nairobi, Kenya. This two-week event will host 15 participants from malaria-endemic African…

To meet the challenges of climate change and land degradation in the Sahel, Enabel, with funding from the Kingdom of Belgium, is implementing the Sahel Regional Thematic Climate Portfolio (PTCS) in four countries (Burkina Faso, Senegal, Niger and Mali) for a period of 05 years (2022-2026). The…

Given the complexity of the actors operating and delivering on nutrition outcomes, and engaging and participating in the government decision-making processes related to Food Systems we are undertaking an analytical mapping of the actors involved in nutrition and food system in Rwanda. Through this…

Background: Malaria is a major public health problem globally and resistance to most widely used drugs impedes its control. Artemisinin resistance has emerged and spread in the Greater Mekong Sub region (GMS), followed by artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs)’ treatment failure, due to both…

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Home care professionals are more at risk for health problems than usual in hot weather, as their clients are particularly vulnerable to the heat, need more care and thus require more effort. Second, the work of home care professionals consists of physically demanding and cognitively…

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Population trust in health systems is crucial both during public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic and during normal times, as it influences people’s willingness to contribute resources to the health system, to utilize the services it offers, and to follow public health guidance.…

The raison d’être of Anesvad is to improve the health of the most neglected people and communities. A major ongoing quest is the fight against neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) with a focus on skin NTDs through health system strengthening (HSS) from a human rights perspective. This is outlined in…

Swiss TPH provides technical assistance to country organisations currently engaged in the implementation of Global Financing Facility (GFF) Investment Case (IC) evaluations, with the aim to strengthen their capacities to conduct high quality evaluations. Focusing on reproductive, maternal, newborn,…

Noul Inc, a South Korean start-up, has developed the miLab(TM) platform, which allows automated sample preparation to imaging and AI analysis of small amounts of blood samples. The platform is of potential high interested for malaria control, namely malaria diagnostics in low- and middle-income…

IMCI-PLUS is an inter-disciplinary, Pan-African-EU research partnership, with emphasis on capacity strengthening and mutual learning, to improve management of pediatric lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) – the leading cause of child morbidity and mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) – by…