ECSA-HC convenes the 7th Regional Steering Committee Meeting for the ECSA regional TB Labs Strengthening Project. 15-17 September 2021. The meeting was held in Nairobi, Republic of Kenya and was attended by the National TB Programs and the National TB…
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,…
