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Preventive healthcare strategies are the way to go for climate-health. Africa is improving its vaccine manufacturing capacity and investing in capacity building for healthcare workers.
Treezer Michelle Atieno - Editor
African vaccine production has seen a major milestone in the pursuit of local manufacturing capacity. Cape Town-based Biovac Institute is now capable of completing the entire vaccine manufacturing process on its own. This supports climate-health responses and will over time reduce vaccine imports, which currently stand at over 70%.
The institute joins a handful of manufacturers in Africa with a product development laboratory that can see vaccines through from early-stage research to final formulation.
The manufacturing of a vaccine has at least six stages, which in most cases is done by different manufacturing companies in collaboration either through technology transfer or assisted licensing.
Our take: Climate financing should recognise pharmaceutical capacity as a resilience investment…Read more (2 min)
Climate-health training for health workers in Africa can strengthen climate adaptation and resilience. In an interview, Caroline Muthoni, a climate-health expert, explains the impact of the recently launched Africa Climate and Health Responders Course, why such capacity building matters in Africa and how to scale such programmes.
“Health workers are at the forefront of responding to climate-related health emergencies, so they’re best placed to understand and address the impacts of climate change. If we build their capacity and make health systems more resilient, they’ll be better positioned to conduct disease surveillance and control." Says Caroline Muthoni.
The Africa Climate and Health Responders Course was developed by the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education in collaboration with Africa CDC, WHO AFRO, Climate Health African Network for Collaboration and Engagement and other regional partners.
Click to read the full Q&A…Read more (2 min)
We analyse the salary benchmarks for top operational healthcare leaders across Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt. The data covers three main categories: operations, human resources and research. The lower end of senior operations leader salaries is $68,000 in Egypt, $72,000 in Nigeria, $80,000 in Kenya and $104,000 in South Africa.
Retention benchmarks, which make a departure unlikely, for the same role rise to $110,000 in Kenya, $143,000 in South Africa, $99,000 in Nigeria and $93,500 in Egypt.
In some cases, a professional can receive a premium rate, an exception to retain rare talent. We also list salary rates for human resource and research leaders.
Our take: According to the Shortlist recruitment agency, compensation levels rise significantly, often by 50% or more, for candidates with advanced medical or technical degrees (e.g., MD, PhD)…Read more (2 min)
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(Source: Africa CDC)
Dengue fever rises in Africa with West Africa experiencing the sharpest rise by 50% annually
Events
🗓️ Attend the Conference on Sustainable Healthcare in Ethiopia (November 15)
🗓️ Attend the Conference on Drugs and Potency in Kenya (November 14)
🗓️ Participate in the Congress on Primary Healthcare in Morocco (November 15)
Jobs
🧑⚕️ Be a Communications Associate at Partners in Health (Sierra Leone)
🧑⚕️ Become a Senior Malari Advisor at Dexis (SA)
🧑⚕️ Be a Digital Health Research Fellow at Helium Health (Kenya)
Various
💉 Africa’s health business grows to $100 billion
💉 Africa and Europe partner to strengthen health security
💉 Africa loses $10b to medical tourism
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Fredrick Omiti, a Vaccine Trials Specialist, says, “Cancer cases in Africa are rising at an alarming pace. Yet Africa still hosts less than 2% of global clinical trials. This mismatch leaves our populations without locally relevant evidence to guide prevention, diagnosis and treatment.”____________