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Matahari Global Solutions retweeted
Now available 📢 A Pandemic Preparedness, Prevention & Response (PPPR) 101 Workshop Toolkit
This is a full set of all the information you need to run a workshop for your community to learn about PPPR and develop your CLM-PPPR project.
Download here itpcglobal.org/resource/a-pa…
We’re delighted to welcome Dr Kathleen England to the Matahari team! 🎉 She joins us as Associate Consultant in Infectious Disease Diagnostics & Emergency Preparedness. In these challenging times, we’re thrilled to have her on board our growing team. 🌍
Matahari Global Solutions retweeted
Communities are key to future pandemic preparedness.
With @MatahariGlobal, @APCASO & @GlobalFund we’ve launched 3 new resources to help communities lead on PPPR.
📘 Toolkit
📗 Guide
📙 Workshop (coming soon)
🔗 Visit the link to download itpcglobal.org/resource/tool…
Matahari Global Solutions retweeted
At the #LabCoP2025 Annual Meeting in Nairobi, Dr. Marguerite Massinga-Loembe, Senior Consultant for Health Systems Strengthening at @MatahariGlobal, emphasized the need for stronger regulatory collaboration to expedite access to new TB diagnostic tools across Africa.
“Uptake of and access to new TB diagnostic tools in Africa can be delayed by up to nine years. Key enablers to accelerate country-level approval, adoption into policy, and programmatic scale-up include stronger engagement between National TB Programs (NTPs) and national regulators (NRAs), and the harmonization of continental regulatory processes for IVDs and medical devices.”
Her insights reinforced the importance of coordinated regulatory systems and cross-sector collaboration to ensure timely access to innovative diagnostics that can transform TB care across the continent.
#ASLM #LabCoP #Matahari #TB #Diagnostics #Innovation #Regulation #GlobalHealth #HealthSecurity #Partnerships
@GlobalFund, @GatesFoundation, @MOH_Kenya
The withdrawal of U.S. funding has disrupted TB programmes worldwide, threatening hard-won progress in DRC and Kenya. Communities are losing access to diagnostics, treatment, and care. Read more, directly from the communities we work with: matahari.global/insight/impa… #Tuberculosis
Next generation TB tests return results much quicker and are easier to use. But complex regulatory systems may delay introduction. Our health systems lead Marguerite Massinga Loembé will be presenting the results from our critical path analysis at @TheUnion_TBLH in Copenhagen. 👇🏽
Community-led monitoring data can be critical to ensuring robust and timely PPPR interventions. Whether it is communities reporting unexplained animal deaths or interruptions to HIV medications due to lockdowns - good CLM systems can help better PPPR in the future.
📌WEBINAR Integrating Pandemic Preparedness & Response in Community-led Monitoring Mechanisms
📅 April 24, 2025 (Thurs)
⌚17:00-19:00 Bangkok / 10:00-12:00 GMT / 12:00-14:00 CET
Register 👉 bit.ly/42kOfdX
PLUS: Look out for our CLM-PPR toolkit with @MatahariGlobal
MPOX has been declared a public health emergency of regional concern by @AfricaCDC. According to @EliaBadjo of @CosamedD, Matahari’s local partner in DRC, “Medicines, adequate care, access to testing are lacking in the community."
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Our local partners in DRC, @CosamedD, are doing an amazing job tackling major health challenges for people internally displaced by violence. Much more needs to be done. If you’re a global donor wanting to use up funds by end of the year, DRC is where you can do that.
Mission conjointe OMS, DPS SUD-KIVU et COSAMED d'évaluation finale du projet CERF UF 23 dans la zone de santé de Kalehe en #RDCongo.
La communauté a exprimé le reggret du fin de projet dans la zone de Kalehe encore sinistrée avec les nouveaux déplacés en provenance du Nord Kivu
We are proud to be co-leading the work to develop the health workforce compact for the African continent, guided by AU member states. Next steps: regional consultations.
Africa will need between 5.3 and 6.1 million additional health workers by 2030. Yesterday, we kicked off a three-day inception meeting for the Health Workforce Compact at @AfricaCDC Office. Our goal is to design a robust training and development model for health workers and create a policy framework adaptable at the national level, including a national health workforce compact. #HealthWorkforce #AfricaCDC #HealthcareInnovation
🚨Our Health Systems Strengthening lead @MM_Loembe and colleagues write about strengthening readiness against filovirus epidemics, i.e., that evidence supports the use of two licensed vaccines against the Zaire Ebola virus as effective countermeasures.
thelancet.com/journals/lanin…
Matahari Global Solutions retweeted
🚨New Resource🚨 Head over to our website to read this report from @MatahariGlobal on gendered access to #COVID19 vaccinations: genderandcovid-19.org/resour… #InternationalWomensDay #IWD #GenderEqual
ICYMI, Matahari’s work on gender-sensitive pandemic responses featured in Oxfam’s weekend recommendations. Click the first link below for an in depth look at how gender affects access to pandemic tools.
New month, new weekend recommendations! Here's what we are reading to kick off the month:
🟩Mistakes of 'Gender-Blind' responses - views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/20…
🟩When the farm is gone - views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/20…
🟩No #ClimateJustice without Water Justice - views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/20…
ALT Dark and light orange graphic Policy & Practice Weekend Recommendations Box 1: Why we must never repeat the mistakes of a ‘gender-blind’ covid response Pandemics are bad for women’s health - but they are also bad for their labour rights. In this blog, Harry Bignell and Abha Jeurkar set out key gendered impacts of the pandemic and call for pressure on global leaders to make sure we avoid them in future. Box 2: When the farm is gone - but the loan remains: how can we build climate-resilient microfinance? When floods destroyed one Pakistani farmer's crops and income, they also destroyed her ability to get and repay the credit on which she depends. Rita Abiodun looks at a programme that offers much more protection from climate shocks to microfinance users. Box 3: There is no climate justice without water justice - and that must include fair water access for women In this blog, Nuzhat Nueary sets out five dimensions of fair and feminist water action. views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/
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'We need diagnostics faster' 🧪
Dr @FifaRahman from @MatahariGlobal and member of 100DM Diagnostics subgroup outlines why access to testing is so crucial for pandemic preparedness🦠
In 2024, we are working to see the 100DM Diagnostics framework funded, inc. $80-100m for @FINDdx
As M23 militia inch closer to Goma, our local partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo, @CosamedD, are reporting an increased influx of people who are displaced and fleeing violence, and having multilayered health needs. We remain deeply concerned at the developing situation.
In 2023, Matahari worked on gender-based violence in Eastern Cape, diagnostics access in Madagascar, a market assessment for an NG/CT assay in Brazil and Thailand, among other exciting projects. Get in touch to see how we can support your work in 2024: matahari.global
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Previous collaboration by @MatahariGlobal and @peoplesvaccine on #COVID19 vaccine access found similar notions to this article, i.e. that availability and acceptability contribute to COVID-19 vaccination, rather than hesitancy healthaffairs.org/doi/suppl/…