AFRICA’s HEALTH ministers have launched a new strategy aimed at reducing the health and socioeconomic...
The Regional Strategy for Health Security and Emergencies 2022–2030, aims to reduce the devastating impact of public health emergencies like the recent Covid 19 pandemic
This week, a new Regional Strategy for Health Security and Emergencies 2022-2030 was agreed in response to the devastating effects of the Covid 19 pandemic on already fragile health systems. Covid 19 is a wake-up call for the African region to prioritize building resilient health systems capable of coping with public health emergencies.Observers noted that the pandemic threatened to undo decades of progress in health and economics by overloading health systems, disrupting key health services, and fuelling socioeconomic instability.
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