The Events Based Surveillance (EBS) was through the World Bank Funded Project- Southern Africa TB and Health Systems Support (SATBHSS). The EBS covered support for adoption of Guidelines, SoPs and training materials. ECSA-HC has joined hands with Africa CDC to…
Maseru, 7th August 2021. The Ministry of Health Lesotho receives COVID-19 Johnson ans Johnson (JnJ) vaccines from the African Union Commission under the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT). ECSA-HC as a supporting partner in Health, was invited to support Lesotho receive…
In 2019, the ECSA-HC received funding through the Global Fund to strengthen capacity for TB diagnostics in the ECSA region. Currently the project supports 21 countries within the region namely: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Lesotho,…
ECSACON is pleased to announce its 14th Scientific Conference, to be held in Arusha, Tanzania, from 8-10 September, 2021. We aim to bring together nurses and Midwives and other professional across the East Central and Southern Africa region and beyond…
A kick-off meeting of the EUAfrica PerMed project (https://www.euafrica-permed.eu/), funded under Horizon 2020, the European framework programme for Research & Innovation, was held in 4th March 2021 The EU-Africa PerMed project has the overall objective of integrating African countries into…
Many disease outbreaks have been reported in the trans-boundary areas between Uganda and Tanzania. These include Highly Pathological Avian Influenza that was reported in Uganda in 2017 (http://www.fao.org/3/CA1209EN/ca1209en.pdf). In recent months there have also been reports of Rift Valley fever,…
