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Development Health Advice 

‘Tear down inequalities’ to end COVID pandemic: UNAIDS

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According to the UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2021, people living with HIV are at a higher risk of severe COVID-19 illness and death, yet the vast majority are denied access to life-saving vaccines.   Gender inequality & gender-based violence continue to fuel the HIV epidemic among women & girls. In sub-Saharan Africa, adolescent girls & young women account for 25% of HIV infections despite representing just… Read More
Africa Investments 

Tunisie : la Banque africaine de développement mobilise 60 millions d’euros pour la relance économique et le renforcement de l’inclusion sociale

Elwin Mandowa,
Le Conseil d’administration du Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement a approuvé, le 14 juillet à Abidjan, un financement de 60 millions d’euros en faveur de la Tunisie pour la mise en œuvre du Programme d’appui à la relance économique et à l’inclusion sociale. Cette opération a pour principal objectif de soutenir la dynamique de relance économique par l’amélioration… Read More
Africa Investments 

African Development Bank, partners, renew commitment to end child stunting in Africa

Elwin Mandowa,
Urging unity and action to accelerate nutrition targets amid the global Covid-19 pandemic, representatives of the African Development Bank, the Aliko Dangote Foundation and Big Win Philanthropy renewed their commitment to end child stunting and other forms of malnutrition through the Banking on Nutrition Partnership. The partners convened during a high-level panel discussion held on 8 July, organized by the… Read More
Africa Business World 

Commonwealth countries lose $345 bln in trade due to Covid-19

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– – Commonwealth countries are estimated to have lost up to US$345 billion worth of trade in 2020, including $60 billion in intra-Commonwealth trade, according to 2021 Commonwealth Trade Review on “Energising Commonwealth Trade in a Digital World: Paths to Recovery Post-COVID”. Released today, the Commonwealth Trade Review provides a timely and comprehensive analysis of the impact of the pandemic on… Read More
Africa Investments 

The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa reports record number of transactions in 2020, secures $90 million in new funding

Elwin Mandowa,
The Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) approved seven high-impact projects worth $54 million in 2020, its best year in spite of challenging Covid-19 conditions, according to its recently released 2020 Annual Report. SEFA, managed by the African Development Bank, focuses on green baseload, green mini-grid, and energy efficiency investments. The Fund, founded in 2011, transformed into a Special Fund… Read More
Development Health Advice 

‘Tremendously off track’ to meet 2030 SDGs: UN chief  

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“High costs, coupled with persistently high levels of poverty and income inequality, continue to keep healthy diets out of reach for around three billion people, in every region of the world”, added António Guterres, in a statement highlighting the importance of the global Food Systems Summit, due to take place in September.   In a world of plenty, we have no excuse for billions… Read More
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COVID-19 booster strategy as Delta multiplies, highlights ‘disappointing inequality’: WHO

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“We’re in the midst of a growing two-track pandemic where the haves and have-nots within and between countries are increasingly divergent”, underscored Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus. He explained that although the Delta variant was spreading quickly in places with high vaccination coverage, in countries with low vaccination coverage, the situation is particularly bad. “Delta and other highly transmissible variants are driving… Read More
Africa Investments 

Ghana: African Development Bank Group-financed road interchange opens, trade and incomes expected up

Elwin Mandowa,
A jumbo road interchange financed by the African Development Bank Group has opened in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, amid hopes the new infrastructure will help reduce road fatalities, ease mobility and spur trade within Ghana as well as with its neighbors. Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo commissioned the Pokuase Interchange – an array of swirling highways – at a ceremony held… Read More
Development Health Advice 

UN reports ‘leap forward’ in regulating DNA-altering technology to benefit all 

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“Human genome editing has the potential to advance our ability to treat and cure disease, but the full impact will only be realized if we deploy it for the benefit of all people, instead of fuelling more health inequity between and within countries”, said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).  A representative report  The total complement of genes in any organism or… Read More
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Conflict, climate change, COVID, forces more people into hunger

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New data that represents the first comprehensive global assessment of food insecurity carried out since the coronavirus pandemic began, indicates that the number of people affected by chronic hunger in 2020, rose by more than in the previous five years combined.   Reversing this situation will likely take years if not decades, maintained the World Food Programme (WFP), Food and Agriculture Organization FAO, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF.  Food system reform call  “The pandemic continues to expose weaknesses in our… Read More
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