African| Researcher| PhD Health Economics| Views are my own| Work: African Constituencies Bureau - For the Global Fund | Accountability for health resources
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Djesika Amendah retweeted
Calling emerging African public health professionals!📌📢📢
Apply and share widely !!
The AFRITRAC MSc Fellowship Program 2026, run by APHRC, offers Master's fellowships in Biostatistics and Epidemiology. It aims to build Africa's capacity in health data science and epidemic preparedness.
📅 Deadline: November 6, 2026
🔗 Apply here; buff.ly/I8MDkrD
💡 Qui dépense réellement pour la santé ? Pas seulement le ministère de la Santé !
Pour mesurer l’effort réel du gouvernement, les comptes nationaux de la santé doivent aussi intégrer les dépenses de santé des autres secteurs publics.
Une vision globale des dépenses, c’est une meilleure base pour décider et investir. #FinancementDeLaSanté #HealthFinancing
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How tech billionaires are disrupting biomedical science nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Here is an explanation by WHO showing how an EVD patient can travel across countries without being detected.
Can we ask why? 🥲🥲
The rationale matters
Were those goals overly ambitious?
Fist, we needed good data system just to document the then situation,
Second, we make progress
Finally, we measure the progress...
We missed the target but where? Step 1, 2 or 3 not sure...
Just saying 😶
Almost 4 in 10 adolescent girls and young women do not finish upper secondary school.
With only four years remaining to the 2030 deadline for the #SDGs, no country with data has met even half of the 16 targets crucial to adolescent girls’ well-being.
#IamAPHRC #WeAreAfrica
Djesika Amendah retweeted
𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 #𝐀𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐂𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟕 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠!
#Africa faces urgent health challenges, from #Ebola to gaps in financing and emergency preparedness. Addressing these requires more than just emergency responses. We must build resilient health systems, invest in sustainable domestic financing, and create homegrown solutions tailored to African realities.
Join @AHAIC_Amref in Kigali, Rwanda for #AHAIC2027 to help transform shared commitments into real impact.
Secure your 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 now and invite your friends to join: ahaic.org/register-ahaic-202…
#ConnectedForChange #AHAIC
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In 2025, 7.4 million people received TB treatment in countries supported by the @GlobalFund. This is progress worth protecting. Every person deserves uninterrupted, affordable and stigma-free care.
#EndTB #GlobalFund
theglobalfund.org/en/Results…
The place to be this week!
LIVE | 76th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa – Opening Ceremony (2) teapawt.org/i/broadcasts/1aJbdEZzO…
Interesting... I wonder if it is already commercialized
Blood draw has always been prone to automation! Now the FDA realizes that too (through the De Novo pathway)!
They just authorized the Aletta, the first standalone robotic device that can draw blood from a patient’s arm without hands-on operator intervention.
"The device is authorized for use in adults in outpatient settings and must be operated under the oversight of a supervisor trained in phlebotomy. One phlebotomist can oversee up to three Aletta devices at the same time, which may help address the current phlebotomist shortage in the U.S."
The authorization is based on clinical data demonstrating efficiency and safety, with device-related adverse events being uncommon and mild.
Kudos to Vitestro for making it happen!
Source: fda.gov/news-events/press-an…
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When #Ebola strikes, the international community’s rapid deployment of tents, protective gear, and emergency teams can seem abrupt to communities accustomed to limited assistance. Focusing intensely on a single disease often appears disconnected from ongoing challenges, which can foster scepticism rather than trust. Trust develops through consistent, genuine support over time, not only during emergencies.
The resistance is not because of ignorance but a rational response to historical neglect. When health systems face daily challenges yet mobilise extensively for one crisis, communities understandably draw their own conclusions.
Read more: newsroom.amref.org/wp-admin/…
#Amref4HealthSecurity #EbolaResponse @daktari1
ALT Image Credits: Direct Relief, MSF, Alexis Huguet/MSF, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), AP.
Djesika Amendah retweeted
Today is #SickleCell Awareness Day 🩸
40% more people are living with sickle cell disease today than in 2000. It is a growing health challenge, affecting around 7.7 million people in the world today.
This means more health workers – incl. maternity providers - need to know how to manage the disease.
WHO consolidated guidelines for the management of common childhood illness: management of sickle-cell disease in children and adolescents bit.ly/4elKVp6
ALT Illustration explaining sickle cell disease as a genetic blood disorder with crescent-shaped sickle cells blocking blood flow and causing pain.
Another way to add dignity can also be to add the West African or Muslim custom of holding remembrance ceremonies or prayers a while after the burial. It can be at the end of the outbreak, 3 or 6 months after (Muslims hold the prayer 40 days later), either way after it is safe to gather.
Bodies of people who have died from #Ebola can still infect you with the virus. Safe and dignified burials are critical to stem the outbreak.
Find out more ⬇️
#ViralFactsAfrica
@viralfacts
Congrats to this country What does it take to eradicate mother-to-child-transmission?
West and central Africa want to learn and apply it.
👏🏾👏🏾 Congratulations to 🇹🇨 on becoming the 13th country in the Caribbean certified by @WHO for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV! #UnitedToEndAIDS
The challenge is not finding policies or interventions that benefit the majority.
It's overcoming the tendency to favor the few at the expense of the many.
Democracy was supposed to be a solution for this kind of problems. In our context, sadly, it is not!
We are poor country that can't afford to pay a whole 2000 interns the very huge sum of $3200 per year (each).
We are also a poor country that has enough money to spend on all sorts of useless things.
We are also a poor country in common sense
#PayAllInterns
#PayMedicalInterns
#InternsNotSlaves
Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision protects them and women too! Win-win
Djesika Amendah retweeted
"systems strengthening should involve evidence-based prioritization of country-level resources, based on local needs and cost-effectiveness; supporting the transition to more cost-effective policies; and generating evidence which often directly leads to systems strengthening." cgdev.org/blog/donors-are-in…
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#InternationalChildrensDay Children & adolescents remain under-prioritised in HIV policy & financing conversations. As the HIV response evolves, it is critical that children are not lost in wider discussions on financing and health systems reform.
➡️ childrenandhiv.org/blog/inte…
Djesika Amendah retweeted
Today on #InternationalChildrensDay, we reaffirm our commitment to ensuring children & adolescents remain visible, prioritised & funded within the HIV response. Decisions made now will shape the future of HIV care for the next generation. Read the blog: bit.ly/CCABAChildrensDay
