Together with nearly 30 partners, Pandemic Action Network calls on leaders to revamp their response to the pandemic in upcoming Summits and global coordination meetings taking place in 2022 and stay the course and secure the future, by prioritizing the following actions:

Global public health experts Agnes Binagwaho, Githinji Gitahi, Vanessa Kerry, and John Nkengasong discuss a new plan to invest in the healthcare workforce in Africa, where 36 out of 57 countries face dire shortages.

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Roche, the Kolisi Foundation, One-By-One Target Covid Campaign and Transnet launched a children’s book, “Keto and Zuri Learn about COVID-19,” to help parents and caregivers across Africa explain COVID-19 to children by sharing scientific facts in age-appropriate language.

CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS URGE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT VOLKAN BOZKIR TO USE THE INFORMAL PLENARY ON JULY 28 TO FORMALLY START THE PROCESS FOR A UN HIGH-LEVEL SUMMIT ON GLOBAL HEALTH SECURITY AND PANDEMIC PREVENTION AND PREPAREDNESS DURING THE 76TH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Pandemic Action Network, Africa CDC, the African Union, 3M and over 50 global, regional, and local partner organizations announced the launch of World Mask Week 2021, a global campaign aimed to underline the importance of masking in public, in combination with hand washing and physical distancing to protect against COVID-19.

The Africa CDC, African Union, the Rockefeller Foundation, Clouds Media and the One by One: Target COVID-19 Campaign have joined celebrity Influencers from DRC, Zambia and Uganda to launch the Influencer COVID-19 Digital Content to combat COVID-19 and reduce misinformation.

Africa is faced with 3rd and 4th waves of COVID-19 as higher transmitting variants rapidly spread across the region. Increased precautionary methods and vaccination must be implemented now to protect the population and healthcare systems.

In order to combat the spread of misinformation and to mitigate the deadly spread of COVID-19, the One by One: Target COVID-19 Campaign, alongside the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa, the African Union, and The Rockefeller Foundation today launched ‘AfricaCOVIDChampions.’

Ghana has become the first country to receive COVID-19 Vaccine through #COVAX. This is a major step towards #VaccinEquity and proof that the combined efforts of global and national leaders will help defeat the virus.

The global community is working endlessly to achieve #UHC2030. But it is time to change the narrative and focus first on providing services to the lowest-income communities because #UHC is a right for all.

Kenya is the 1st country to adopt the Africa CDC and African Union recommended Trusted Traveler program, allowing them to secure the Kenya border from COVID-19.

Director-general warns of ‘catastrophic moral failure’ if richer countries hoard treatment

It is essential that health workers and vulnerable populations have access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
WHO is calling on all global and national leaders to assure and accelerate #VaccinEquity.

We must consider the necessity of Universal Health Coverage if we want to ensure that populations affected by Complex Humanitarian Emergencies have access to healthcare including immunization programs.

Africa defied many dire predictions during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic’s first wave. The continent’s success can be credited to a rapid, coordinated response among African leaders, experience with infectious diseases, an aggressive campaign to combat misinformation, and community engagement in the response.

A survey conducted by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), in partnership with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has shown that a predominant majority (79% average) of respondents in Africa would take a COVID-19 vaccine if it were deemed safe and effective.

When developing healthcare systems equipped for the future, it is essential that we consider the persistent and emerging health trends that are present in the global population. Autoimmune disease incidence rates, while still uncommon, have been on the rise for the past several decades...

Living Goods and The Access Challenge have signed a formal Memorandum of Understanding to innovatively support community health workers (CHWs) in the fight against COVID-19 through the One by One: Target COVID-19 Campaign.

The One by One: Target Covid-19 Campaign announces a new partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation to support Africa CDC’s Covid-19 Response Strategy using strategic communication and behaviour change campaigns across the continent.

Early action by the Government of Timor-Leste and development partners enabled the numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases to stand at 29.

On October 16, 2020, the One by One: Target 2030 campaign honored World Food Day, marking the 75th Anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

While health systems around the world fight the pandemic, we must also remain focused on mothers, and cannot allow the pandemic to undo recent gains made in maternal health - digital tools are revealing themselves as our best weapon in this fight.

Harnessing aspects of urban design to prevent illness and promote population health has the potential to ease health system burdens and thereby facilitate universal health coverage.

In the one year since the Political Declaration, the global health landscape drastically changed with COVID-19. Despite these obstacles, many countries have been able to move forward with their commitments and have made substantial progress in strengthening community health for UHC.

The first ever International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies underscores the environmental link to human health

African leaders have already begun the innovative work of addressing access to water, clean air, and food, often more than one at once, to build person-centered, equitable health systems.

How COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of international cooperation.

GFLA joins the One by One Target 2030 Campaign in support of its One by One: Target COVID-19 campaign to ensure that steps to combat COVID-19 include equitable access to services for the most vulnerable, and that these actions contribute towards a vision for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Africa.

Breastfeeding as a meaningful component of Universal Health Coverage for maternal and child health