Solidarity and local engagement ended the 10th Ebola outbreak in DR Congo in mid-2020. Congolese health officials and the World Health Organization incorporated traditional healers in community education and protective measures.
Solidarity and Leadership Required to Suppress COVID-19
The keys to reducing the global toll of the pandemic are known. Find, treat, isolate and contact trace every case of COVID-19. And while testing, treatment and tracing are under way - wear masks, maintain physical distance and wash hands as much as possible. "Every single leader, every single government and every single person can do their bit to break chains of transmission and end the collective suffering," said World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus this week. "If the basics aren't followed, there is only one way this pandemic is going to go.It's going to get worse and worse and worse." But compassionate leadership at every level can prevent that tragedy.
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Africa: Greatest Global Challenge is Cooperation - Not COVID-19
allAfrica, 14 July 2020
Pandemics come and go. The tragic effect of plague in the Middle Ages reminds us that Covid-19 wasn't the first, and it is clear that it won't be the last. Read more »
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Rwanda: A Message from Vice Chancellor Prof. Agnes Binagwaho Regarding COVID-19
UGHE, 3 April 2020
Dear Readers, I hope you and your families are safe and well. Read more »
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Africa: WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 13 July 2020
WHO, 14 July 2020
Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. Read more »
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World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced today that former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former New Zealand Prime Minister ... Read more »
