For instance, we recently collaborated with a Scandinavian ECA to provide a loan to Côte d’Ivoire for the purchase of buses that would form the public transport backbone in the city of Abidjan. We also arranged a loan to the Government of Ghana to build the new Eastern Regional...
IDIs and FGDs took place at the Mbale Regional Referral Hospital or in participants’ homes. Key themes emerged; preparation for continuing care in the home, psychosocial challenges to providing preterm care in the home, barriers to continuing preterm care in the home, and suggestions for ...
The global problem of the presence of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals in the environment is under investigation. Despite the increase in the knowledge of its sources, fates and impacts, the assessment of risks and the derived prevention actions are limited to single cases. The predicted increasi...
Data were collected in four countries in East Africa (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) (Kristjanson et al., 2012) and five in West Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Senegal). The household survey and village studies are components of the baseline definition activities of the ...
Chinese private enterprises’ investment in Africa shows a clear regional concentration. In Eastern Africa, investments focus on Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda; in Southern Africa, Zambia, Mozambique, and Angola; in West Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, and Côte d'Ivoire; and in Northern Africa, Egypt an...
In March 2016, the newly elected government of Burkina Faso decided on a major change in health financing policy: it abolished direct payment for healthcare for women and children under five. Unlike other countries in Africa, this decision took a long ti
–Swiss federal health agency’s head of infectious diseases Daniel Koch said that hospitals in the country could collapse if the novel coronavirus continues rapid spread. –China’s Shanghai has extended quarentine to visitors from the UK, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium, Norway, the Netherlands,...
Zambia experienced a major decline in under-five mortality rates (U5MR), with one of the fastest declines in socio-economic disparities in sub-Saharan Africa in the last two decades. We aimed to understand the extent to which, and how, Zambia has reduced
More than half of the Honduras was submerged: towns, villages, schools and hospitals were all under water. Deprived victims had no choice but to migrate to neighbouring nations. This led to a rise in the number of illegal immigrants to the US. US federal agents at t...
These visits exposed her to the harsh realities of the country’s healthcare system. “I remember sitting in overcrowded waiting rooms, watching doctors stretched thin, unable to meet the needs of so many patients,” Adewara recalls. This formative experience ignited her passion for transforming h...