by EIDHS | Jan 12, 2023 | Respond
The declaration from Uganda’s government and the World Health Organization announcing the end of the Ebola virus outbreak in Uganda is a welcome event and demonstrates how swift action can address and contain emerging public health threats. Measures taken by the...
by EIDHS | Nov 10, 2022 | Prevent, Respond
FHI 360 was pleased to participate in the recent Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) workshop held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire that brought together stakeholders from human, animal, and environmental health sectors to strengthen and operationalize...
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 EIDHS | Aug 19, 2022 | Detect, Prevent, Respond
A trained member of FHI 360’s safe and dignified burial team in the Democratic Republic of the Congo shows colleagues how to dress themselves in personal protective equipment to handle bodies of people who died from Ebola. The training took place in early 2021, during...
by EIDHS | Jun 22, 2022 | Detect, Respond
Cambodia has made tremendous progress in reducing the Tuberculosis (TB) incidence. Though it is still on the global watchlist to monitor regularly, Cambodia is no longer in the top 30 countries with the highest TB burden[1]. Yet according to the Center for...
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...
