COVID-19 cases in Africa to top 4 million, vaccine rollout underway
Africa is poised to surpass 4 million COVID-19 infections this week since the continent’s first confirmed case in February 2020. The year-long battle against the virus, which has also claimed over 106 000 lives, is now receiving a crucial boost with the arrival of vaccines through the COVAX Facility – a multi-partner vaccine procurement platform. […]
Call for review of the African Antibiotic Treatment Guidelines for Common Bacterial Infections and Syndromes
The African CDC is calling on qualified healthcare providers, researchers, laboratory staff, or pharmacists with experience diagnosing infectious diseases and prescribing antimicrobial therapies to provide feedback back to the African Antibiotic Treatment Guidelines for Common Bacterial Infections and Syndromes and to serve as members of an External Review Group. The External Review Group will be […]
West African health ministers in joint fight against Ebola
Ministers of Health from Guinea – which is combating a new Ebola outbreak – and neighbouring countries have agreed on a unified front to combat the virus that re-emerged about three weeks ago. The meeting was opened by His Excellency, the Prime Minister of Guinea, Dr Ibrahima Kassory Fofana in Guinea’s capital, Conakry on 2 […]
Angola becomes the first country in Eastern and Southern Africa region to receive COVAX vaccines against COVID-19
Angola today received 624,000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine from the Sérum Institute of India as part of the COVAX initiative, which aims to ensure the equitable distribution of vaccines against COVID-19 worldwide. With this first batch of vaccines, estimated at about 10 per cent of the country’s first phase vaccine needs, the Government will […]
ICAN Health Facility Process Indicators
Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) are a significant burden globally, with millions of patients affected each year. These infections affect both high- and limited-resource healthcare settings, but in limited-resource settings, rates are approximately twice as high (15 out of every 100 patients versus 7 out of every 100 patients). Furthermore, infection rates within certain patient populations, including […]
Training Course: Infection Prevention and Control for Healthcare Workers 12-16 April 2021!
The Basic IPC for Healthcare Workers is an introductory course specifically designed for healthcare personnel requiring basic IPC knowledge with an emphasis on hand hygiene, standard precautions, and procedure-based transmission precautions in newly developing health systems. It is not designed to be totally comprehensive or extensive, but to introduce basic concepts of IPC to the […]
CDC Africa Webcast Healthcare Worker Safety: Proper Usage of Personal Protective Equipment
Please see below webinar regarding Healthcare worker Safety and the Proper Use of Personal protective Equipment. Speakers from the event include Professor Ogunsola, ICAN Chairperson. Programme below: Introduction on COVID-19 Status in Africa – Dr Bakare W Ariyo ACDC PPE – Multimodal Strategy for Use and Reuse Prof F Ogunsola ICAN PPE – Buying and […]
New Ebola outbreak declared in Guinea
Health authorities in Guinea today declared an outbreak of Ebola in the rural community of Gouéké in N’Zerekore prefecture after three Ebola cases were confirmed by the national laboratory, marking the first time the disease has been reported in the country since an outbreak ended in 2016. Initial investigations found that a nurse from the local health facility died […]
#WearAMask Challenge!
Join the new WHO #WearAMask challenge & protect your loved ones from #COVID19. To break the chains of transmission, we must also: -Keep physical distance -Keep cleaning your hands -Keep away from big crowds -Keep covering your mouth and nose when coughing