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We’re delighted to welcome Dr Kathleen England to the Matahari team! 🎉 She joins us as Associate Consultant in Infectious Disease Diagnostics & Emergency Preparedness. In these challenging times, we’re thrilled to have her on board our growing team. 🌍
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The withdrawal of U.S. funding has disrupted TB programmes worldwide, threatening hard-won progress in DRC and Kenya. Communities are losing access to diagnostics, treatment, and care. Read more, directly from the communities we work with: matahari.global/insight/impa… #Tuberculosis
Next generation TB tests return results much quicker and are easier to use. But complex regulatory systems may delay introduction. Our health systems lead Marguerite Massinga Loembé will be presenting the results from our critical path analysis at @TheUnion_TBLH in Copenhagen. 👇🏽
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Community-led monitoring data can be critical to ensuring robust and timely PPPR interventions. Whether it is communities reporting unexplained animal deaths or interruptions to HIV medications due to lockdowns - good CLM systems can help better PPPR in the future.
📌WEBINAR Integrating Pandemic Preparedness & Response in Community-led Monitoring Mechanisms
📅 April 24, 2025 (Thurs)
⌚17:00-19:00 Bangkok / 10:00-12:00 GMT / 12:00-14:00 CET
Register 👉 bit.ly/42kOfdX
PLUS: Look out for our CLM-PPR toolkit with @MatahariGlobal
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MPOX has been declared a public health emergency of regional concern by @AfricaCDC. According to @EliaBadjo of @CosamedD, Matahari’s local partner in DRC, “Medicines, adequate care, access to testing are lacking in the community."
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Our local partners in DRC, @CosamedD, are doing an amazing job tackling major health challenges for people internally displaced by violence. Much more needs to be done. If you’re a global donor wanting to use up funds by end of the year, DRC is where you can do that.
Mission conjointe OMS, DPS SUD-KIVU et COSAMED d'évaluation finale du projet CERF UF 23 dans la zone de santé de Kalehe en #RDCongo.
La communauté a exprimé le reggret du fin de projet dans la zone de Kalehe encore sinistrée avec les nouveaux déplacés en provenance du Nord Kivu
We are proud to be co-leading the work to develop the health workforce compact for the African continent, guided by AU member states. Next steps: regional consultations.
Africa will need between 5.3 and 6.1 million additional health workers by 2030. Yesterday, we kicked off a three-day inception meeting for the Health Workforce Compact at @AfricaCDC Office. Our goal is to design a robust training and development model for health workers and create a policy framework adaptable at the national level, including a national health workforce compact. #HealthWorkforce #AfricaCDC #HealthcareInnovation
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🚨Our Health Systems Strengthening lead @MM_Loembe and colleagues write about strengthening readiness against filovirus epidemics, i.e., that evidence supports the use of two licensed vaccines against the Zaire Ebola virus as effective countermeasures.
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ICYMI, Matahari’s work on gender-sensitive pandemic responses featured in Oxfam’s weekend recommendations. Click the first link below for an in depth look at how gender affects access to pandemic tools.
New month, new weekend recommendations! Here's what we are reading to kick off the month:
🟩Mistakes of 'Gender-Blind' responses - views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/20…
🟩When the farm is gone - views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/20…
🟩No #ClimateJustice without Water Justice - views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/20…
ALT Dark and light orange graphic Policy & Practice Weekend Recommendations Box 1: Why we must never repeat the mistakes of a ‘gender-blind’ covid response Pandemics are bad for women’s health - but they are also bad for their labour rights. In this blog, Harry Bignell and Abha Jeurkar set out key gendered impacts of the pandemic and call for pressure on global leaders to make sure we avoid them in future. Box 2: When the farm is gone - but the loan remains: how can we build climate-resilient microfinance? When floods destroyed one Pakistani farmer's crops and income, they also destroyed her ability to get and repay the credit on which she depends. Rita Abiodun looks at a programme that offers much more protection from climate shocks to microfinance users. Box 3: There is no climate justice without water justice - and that must include fair water access for women In this blog, Nuzhat Nueary sets out five dimensions of fair and feminist water action. views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/
As M23 militia inch closer to Goma, our local partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo, @CosamedD, are reporting an increased influx of people who are displaced and fleeing violence, and having multilayered health needs. We remain deeply concerned at the developing situation.
In 2023, Matahari worked on gender-based violence in Eastern Cape, diagnostics access in Madagascar, a market assessment for an NG/CT assay in Brazil and Thailand, among other exciting projects. Get in touch to see how we can support your work in 2024: matahari.global
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We are proud of our partnership with Small Steps for Africa and Ankizy Gasy in Madagascar - including work done to identify barriers for accessing essential diagnostics, and map routes for reform: matahari.global/wp-content/u…
The report details our fantastic programme work with Ankizy Gasy, Akany Avoko Ambohidratimo & Faravohitra, as well as our new partnership with @MatahariGlobal 🤝
It also covers the launch of our new health worker programme and future strategic plans!
🚨NEW REPORT: Rapid diagnostics assessment in Madagascar finds cost and distance major barriers in accessing diagnostics. In addition, individuals are prescribed antibiotics despite incomplete diagnostics regimens, creating an AMR risk. Read more 🔗rb.gy/zo1sa
Communities in Madagascar cannot afford testing. A universal healthcare approach is needed to offer tests for free and to bring tests closer to communities. 🔗rb.gy/zo1sa @FINDdx @smallsteps_2015
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The province of Eastern Cape in South Africa is known for having the highest gender based violence (GBV) rate in the country (2x the national rate). Our team was in Nhamakwe last week to examine feasibility for work by @SonkeTogether to tackle GBV among children in the province.
🚨We are hiring! We are looking for research assistants for a GBV project feasibility study in Eastern Cape, South Africa. Fluency in Xhosa required. To apply, see details below 👇👇👇
Today is #WorldTBDay. Community health workers do important work, including providing nutrition, collecting sputum, and transporting sick patients to health facilities. Yet they remain unsalaried and are poorly supported. Ending TB means supporting CHWs better. @EvalineKibuchi👇🏽
🚨New Team Member! It is a pleasure to welcome @clarissaregede to our team as Associate Consultant: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health.
We look forward to all the great contributions she’ll make to our team.
