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- Annual Report 2017 The global health landscape is changing. In less than two decades, the world has registered some of the most momentous advances against infectious diseases.… Read more
- Researchers focus on eight potential HIV vaccines, so far none promises gleam future Kenyan researchers are working on about eight potential HIV vaccines.None has shown efficacy, but scientists believe they are still potent if delivered efficiently into… Read more
- The African Civil Society Platform on Health and GFAN Africa Urge African and World Leaders to Urgently Address Drug Resistant TB Contact: Carol Nawina: carolnawina@gmail.com + 260 97 7960043 Rosemary Mburu: rosemary@wacihealth.org +254 711 308858 Emmanuel Etim: info@africahealthplatform.org + 251 912 623 935 Drug… Read more
- We Must Invest in TB-HIV Programming or Lose Two Fights at Once By Stephen Mule This year, the two deadliest infectious diseases traded places. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that tuberculosis had overtaken HIV, as… Read more
- The Far-Reaching Impact Of Strengthening Primary Health care Author : Suzanne Ehlers & Rosemary Mburu Suzanne Ehlers is President and CEO of Population Action International; Rosemary Mburu is Executive Director of World… Read more
- Netherlands’ Commendable Leadership in Women’s Health President Donald Trump has reinstated the Mexico City Policy – an abortion-related requirement prohibiting foreign non-governmental organizations that receive U.S. funding from using their… Read more
- Africa Must Increase Investments in Health, Now More than Ever A growing wave of nationalism is sweeping across the West and demanding a sharper focus on domestic issues and lesser engagement abroad. For global… Read more
- Africa CDC: Great Opportunity for New AU Chair to Transform Africa’s Health In February, Africa elected Chad’s Moussa Faki Mahamat as the new chairperson of the African Union Commission (AU) replacing South Africa’s Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. One… Read more
- New Beginnings for HIV Prevention Research in Africa Advances in science in the last two decades have led to tremendous progress against HIV. Breakthroughs in HIV treatment and prevention research have allowed… Read more
- Big Stories of 2016 WACI Health reflects on the major developments in global health in 2016. In May 2016, WHO recommended a shorter treatment for multi-drug resistant TB,… Read more
- Press Release Combating TB-HIV in South Africa World AIDS Day 2016 A new research report from ACTION shows that while countries have taken steps in the right direction to combat the deadly duo of TB and HIV,… Read more
- Highlights of the Year In our advocacy work over the last year, our partnership has accumulated a list of accomplishments and as a result propelled our vision of… Read more