After over 10 years without new case, WHO certifies Kenya free of sleeping sickness
Triumph over sleeping sickness scourge sees Kenya join Benin, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Guinea, Rwanda, Togo and Uganda in eradicating the disease. Health authorities in Kenya have not reported any indigenous new cases of sleeping sickness since 2009. Sleeping sickness, which is only...
Africa in fresh push to decentralize tests, speed up response to disease outbreaks
To counter disease outbreaks, Africa CDC is leading experts in co-developing a continental framework for decentralizing laboratory services to enhance early warning surveillance and timely confirmation of diseases. Initiative also includes training personnel, establishing a national sample transport system, and conducting lab mapping to improve...
IMF’s blueprint for Africa’s debt sustainability
The IMF counsels that successful debt stabilization requires measures to strengthen public finances and institutions, alongside pro-growth structural reforms and a sound macroeconomic environment. Fiscal adjustment is likely to result in stronger, more durable reductions in debt when complemented by pro-growth structural reforms and by...
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