by EIDHS | Aug 28, 2023 | Detect, Prevent, Respond
The recent US Department of State’s establishment of the Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy is a significant commitment to preventing, detecting, and responding to infectious diseases. Expanding this essential health security mission throughout...
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 EIDHS | Jun 16, 2023 | Detect
FHI 360’s Krishnapada (Kishan) Chakraborty presented on innovative tuberculosis technology use in Bangladesh at a side event of this year’s World Health Assembly. Photo credit: Dr. Suvanand Sahu, STOP TB Partnership On the occasion of this year’s World Health...
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 Yasser Sanad | Oct 12, 2022 | Detect, Prevent
As we are approaching the fall and winter seasons, which provide favorable conditions for viruses such as Influenza virus to become more active, further precautionary actions are needed to avoid recurrence of the disease outbreak like last year. Avian influenza (AI)...
by Yasser Sanad | Oct 12, 2022 | Detect, Prevent
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses pose a significant threat to animal and human health and have tremendous negative economic impacts. Generally, avian influenza type A viruses are categorized based on the severity of the disease in chickens into two...
