Every day over 4.100 people around the world lose their lives to TB and around 30.000 fall ill with this preventable and curable disease. Doctors with Africa Cuamm renews its commitment to defeat this silent disease which incidence is higher than expected. The efforts in Uganda and Angola proved that team-work can be crucial along with community engagement.
The new sections, inaugurated today, have been implemented by Doctors with Africa Cuamm in the framework of IRC19 project “Italia Response to Covid-19: Improving governance and community preparedness for a resilient society (IRC19)”, supported by USAID, United States Agency for International Development.
In Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, the closing event of the 'Test&Treat' project, to share the progress made on the ground in containing the epidemic.
Thanks to a development of screening services, awareness campaigns and availability of technical instruments, many progresses have been made in the prevention of transmittable diseases.
Against the decision to focus everything on military alliances and the threat of arms in an independent state, LINK 2007 network of NGOs reaffirms the need to make every effort to return to political and diplomatic dialogue, even if this seems impossible.
The closing event of the PIPSA project, which started in 2018 and aims to improve assistance and health care services for people living with HIV, took place today in Luanda, Angola.
Today in Addis Abeba the final event of the project "Improving the quality of care and prevention of diabetes mellitus and hypertension", financed by WDF and implemented by CUAMM.
People are registering, vaccinating and collecting data at São Josè de Munhava vaccination centre, one of the 12 set by Doctors with Africa within the campaign “a vaccine for us”.
On Wednesday 15 February, within the framework of the FRESAN Programme for health and nutrition of mothers and children in Angola, a delegation of two EU ambassadors and the ambassadors of ten member states visited the Chiulo Hospital and the adjacent Maternity Waiting Homes.
The vaccination campaign against Covid-19 in Uganda is now in full swing. The aim is to vaccinate 100% of the target population by April. Without leaving anyone behind.