by Salomon Compaore | Jun 20, 2023 | Detect
Mozambique is among 14 countries most affected by tuberculosis (TB) in the world with 97,093 cases of multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB) in 2020 and 12,400 TB-related deaths each year. Additionally, the World Health Organization along with Mozambique’s...
by Salomon Compaore | Jan 12, 2023 | Detect
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic, the public health sector has been advocating for and has been taking important steps toward more integrated public health surveillance systems. The World Health Organization (WHO) Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR)...
by Salomon Compaore | Sep 22, 2022 | Respond
On September 20, 2022, Uganda’s health authorities declared an Ebola Virus disease (EVD) outbreak after a case was confirmed by the Uganda Virus Research Institute. The case is a 24-year-old male from whom a sample was taken after the investigation of six suspicious...
by Salomon Compaore | May 13, 2022 | Detect, Prevent, Respond
The second Global COVID-19 Summit to Tackle Future Pandemics was convened yesterday, May 12, 2022, with the aim of garnering political and financial commitments from countries to end the current pandemic and be better prepared to respond to pandemic threats in the...
