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Today, Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), in partnership with Pandemic Action Network (PAN), and AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) convened over 50 leaders in Kenya from civil society, research i...
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Today, RANA, @panaction.bsky.social & @aidshealthcare.bsky.social convened 50+ leaders in Kenya for a high-level convening on Charting a Pathway for Sustainable Financing of Africa’s Resilience. Stay tuned for our formal convening outcomes for a resilient Africa. www.linkedin.com/posts/ranaaf...
'When funding cuts undermine the global health system, every region becomes more vulnerable'. - @afro.who.int Regional Director Mohamed Yakub Janabi www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Abrupt withdrawal of aid imperils our response to deadly disease outbreaks
Progress in tackling major threats like Ebola are undermined by Western donors’ widespread retreat from aid funding
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January 13, 2026 at 11:10 AM
'When funding cuts undermine the global health system, every region becomes more vulnerable'. - @afro.who.int Regional Director Mohamed Yakub Janabi www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
What's next for mpox? Overall in Africa, 2025 had over 40,600 confirmed cases and 247 deaths among confirmed cases compared to 2024’s 19,713 confirmed cases and 45 deaths. Mpox is evolving, threatening outbreaks and spread. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Will mpox go global again? Research shows it's evolving in curious ways
Analyses of mpox clades currently in circulation provide clues to how the virus managed to spread worldwide in 2022 — and how it might go global again.
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January 8, 2026 at 1:38 PM
What's next for mpox? Overall in Africa, 2025 had over 40,600 confirmed cases and 247 deaths among confirmed cases compared to 2024’s 19,713 confirmed cases and 45 deaths. Mpox is evolving, threatening outbreaks and spread. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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2025 wasn’t about big promises. It was about real outcomes. From a landmark ICJ opinion to Africa’s leadership at ACS2 and renewables overtaking coal, these are five climate wins that actually shifted the ground.
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December 30, 2025 at 10:17 AM
2025 wasn’t about big promises. It was about real outcomes. From a landmark ICJ opinion to Africa’s leadership at ACS2 and renewables overtaking coal, these are five climate wins that actually shifted the ground.
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Nearly a year after the U.S. cut much of its health funding to Kenya, unpaid community health workers still underpin HIV and mental health care. A new U.S.-Kenya health deal has been signed, but its impact has yet to reach the front lines.
‘I can’t just leave them’: Kenya’s health workers carry on without pay
‘I can’t just leave them’: Kenya’s health workers carry on without pay
www.devex.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Nearly a year after the U.S. cut much of its health funding to Kenya, unpaid community health workers still underpin HIV and mental health care. A new U.S.-Kenya health deal has been signed, but its impact has yet to reach the front lines.
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✅ May 2025: Landmark adoption of the #PandemicAgreement.
Countries adopted the first Pandemic Agreement at the 78th World Health Assembly. The agreement fosters international collaboration and commits to ensuring more equitable access to vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics.
Countries adopted the first Pandemic Agreement at the 78th World Health Assembly. The agreement fosters international collaboration and commits to ensuring more equitable access to vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics.
December 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
✅ May 2025: Landmark adoption of the #PandemicAgreement.
Countries adopted the first Pandemic Agreement at the 78th World Health Assembly. The agreement fosters international collaboration and commits to ensuring more equitable access to vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics.
Countries adopted the first Pandemic Agreement at the 78th World Health Assembly. The agreement fosters international collaboration and commits to ensuring more equitable access to vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics.
"Health data, once treated as a technical output of public health programmes, is now the primary asset being negotiated." @nigeriahealthwatch.bsky.social's Oladimeji Solomon Yemi ✍🏾
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Beyond Aid: How Health Data Is Becoming the New Currency of Global Power - Nigeria Health Watch
Oladimeji Solomon Yemi (Lead writer)For decades, global health governance was shaped by aid flows, multilateral institutions, and shared norms of solidarity. Countries...
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December 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"Health data, once treated as a technical output of public health programmes, is now the primary asset being negotiated." @nigeriahealthwatch.bsky.social's Oladimeji Solomon Yemi ✍🏾
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Opportunity! @afidep.bsky.social is hiring a Research and Policy Associate - Evidence Uptake based in their Kenya office. Apply by 5 Jan.
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Work With Us - African Institute for Development Policy - AFIDEP
AFIDEP seeks to recruit dynamic and competent professionals to develop and grow our work through the following positions.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Opportunity! @afidep.bsky.social is hiring a Research and Policy Associate - Evidence Uptake based in their Kenya office. Apply by 5 Jan.
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"In an era of constrained resources, the choice is clear: we must work differently, finance differently, and partner differently. The future of development depends on it." @undp.org's @alexander-de-croo.bsky.social
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How we partner today will shape the future of development
Development does not begin in conference rooms or spreadsheets. It begins by listening, on the ground, to innovators driving change.
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December 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
"In an era of constrained resources, the choice is clear: we must work differently, finance differently, and partner differently. The future of development depends on it." @undp.org's @alexander-de-croo.bsky.social
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“Africa is not a commodity source; it is a co-investor in its own health future. True partnership means mutual accountability, respect for sovereignty, & alignment with African-led strategies. Anything less risks undermining the very reforms we seek to achieve.” @amrefusa.bsky.social's Desta Lakew
Negotiations with Zambia and Nigeria are the most stark examples of where the Trump administration has made explicit terms around nonhealth metrics it wants in return for aid.
Alarm bells ring as US rolls out transactional strings for health deals
Alarm bells ring as US rolls out transactional strings for health deals
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December 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
“Africa is not a commodity source; it is a co-investor in its own health future. True partnership means mutual accountability, respect for sovereignty, & alignment with African-led strategies. Anything less risks undermining the very reforms we seek to achieve.” @amrefusa.bsky.social's Desta Lakew
ICYMI! Speaking at a @devex.com event last week, @ranafrica.org's Aggrey Aluso spoke about the need for transparency, CSO engagement, & the implications of the U.S. bilateral health deals signed by Kenya, Uganda, & others.
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Devex Pro Briefing: Inside the U.S. bilateral health agreements
YouTube video by Devex
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December 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
ICYMI! Speaking at a @devex.com event last week, @ranafrica.org's Aggrey Aluso spoke about the need for transparency, CSO engagement, & the implications of the U.S. bilateral health deals signed by Kenya, Uganda, & others.
💻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ICL...
📰 www.devex.com/news/ngos-mu...
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👏🏿 Sierra Leone declared the end of its #mpox outbreak. Sierra Leone's first case was reported 9 Jan. and had 5,442 confirmed cases and 60 deaths.
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December 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
👏🏿 Sierra Leone declared the end of its #mpox outbreak. Sierra Leone's first case was reported 9 Jan. and had 5,442 confirmed cases and 60 deaths.
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🔔 Check out & share these Africa-related research fellow opportunities at @lshtm.bsky.social:
1️⃣ Research Fellow (PHP-GHD-2025-17); Apply by 24 Dec.
2️⃣ Research Fellow (EPH-DPH-2025-23); Apply by 7 Jan.
3️⃣ Research Fellow, Ethiopia (EPH-DPH-2025-22); Apply by 7 Jan.
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1️⃣ Research Fellow (PHP-GHD-2025-17); Apply by 24 Dec.
2️⃣ Research Fellow (EPH-DPH-2025-23); Apply by 7 Jan.
3️⃣ Research Fellow, Ethiopia (EPH-DPH-2025-22); Apply by 7 Jan.
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December 18, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🔔 Check out & share these Africa-related research fellow opportunities at @lshtm.bsky.social:
1️⃣ Research Fellow (PHP-GHD-2025-17); Apply by 24 Dec.
2️⃣ Research Fellow (EPH-DPH-2025-23); Apply by 7 Jan.
3️⃣ Research Fellow, Ethiopia (EPH-DPH-2025-22); Apply by 7 Jan.
jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancies.as...
1️⃣ Research Fellow (PHP-GHD-2025-17); Apply by 24 Dec.
2️⃣ Research Fellow (EPH-DPH-2025-23); Apply by 7 Jan.
3️⃣ Research Fellow, Ethiopia (EPH-DPH-2025-22); Apply by 7 Jan.
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From @afdbgroup.bsky.social on X: "The ADF mobilised a record $11B for #ADF17, the largest replenishment in its history, marking a shift from aid to investment with unprecedented African contributions... with Africa as a co-investor in its future."
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December 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
From @afdbgroup.bsky.social on X: "The ADF mobilised a record $11B for #ADF17, the largest replenishment in its history, marking a shift from aid to investment with unprecedented African contributions... with Africa as a co-investor in its future."
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🌍 On #UHCDay, Dr. William Nii Ayitey Menson & Dr. Justice Nonvignon call on African leaders to finance #UHC commitments and make them a reality.
"Now is the time for real investment; predictable, pooled, and protected funding that builds health systems for all."
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"Now is the time for real investment; predictable, pooled, and protected funding that builds health systems for all."
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Africa has made bold health commitments. Now it must finance them
Opinion: Across Africa, the belief in universal health care is not new, and neither are the declarations, compacts and strategies that promise to deliver it. But as the proverb says, “A chattering bir...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🌍 On #UHCDay, Dr. William Nii Ayitey Menson & Dr. Justice Nonvignon call on African leaders to finance #UHC commitments and make them a reality.
"Now is the time for real investment; predictable, pooled, and protected funding that builds health systems for all."
www.devex.com/news/africa-...
"Now is the time for real investment; predictable, pooled, and protected funding that builds health systems for all."
www.devex.com/news/africa-...
The Kenyan High Court has suspended implementation of the U.S. - Kenya health data for aid deal. nation.africa/kenya/news/c...
Court halts implementation of Kenya-US five-year health deal
This follows a case by Cofek alleging medical data breach.
nation.africa
December 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The Kenyan High Court has suspended implementation of the U.S. - Kenya health data for aid deal. nation.africa/kenya/news/c...
46 civil society organizations published a letter to African government leaders on Wednesday expressing wide-ranging concerns around the data for aid bilateral deals - stating the terms are dictated by the U.S. and not by African interests. via @devex.com www.devex.com/news/rapid-u...
Rapid US health deals spark concerns over lack of public consultation
Many are concerned that the State Department is signing these agreements with countries too fast and without public participation.
www.devex.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
46 civil society organizations published a letter to African government leaders on Wednesday expressing wide-ranging concerns around the data for aid bilateral deals - stating the terms are dictated by the U.S. and not by African interests. via @devex.com www.devex.com/news/rapid-u...
📢 Ranafrica.org, @publiccitizen.bsky.social, People's Health Movement Kenya, and nearly 50 CSOs call on African leaders to demand equity and sovereignty rather than one-sided terms in new bilateral health agreements with the U.S.
Read the letter. ⬇️
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Read the letter. ⬇️
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December 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
📢 Ranafrica.org, @publiccitizen.bsky.social, People's Health Movement Kenya, and nearly 50 CSOs call on African leaders to demand equity and sovereignty rather than one-sided terms in new bilateral health agreements with the U.S.
Read the letter. ⬇️
www.ranafrica.org/news/african...
Read the letter. ⬇️
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In response to Ethiopia's #Marburg outbreak, @sabinvaccine.bsky.social sent more than 640 doses of its investigational cAd3-Marburg Vaccine. Read more 👇🏽
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Sabin Vaccine Institute’s Investigational Marburg Vaccine Delivered to Ethiopia for Outbreak Response
Sabin has sent more than 640 doses of its investigational cAd3-Marburg Vaccine to Ethiopia to support the country’s response to its first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
In response to Ethiopia's #Marburg outbreak, @sabinvaccine.bsky.social sent more than 640 doses of its investigational cAd3-Marburg Vaccine. Read more 👇🏽
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After 42 days with no new cases reported, the DRC declared an end of the #Ebola outbreak in Kasai Province. The outbreak which started in early September had a total of 64 cases (53 confirmed, 11 probable) and 45 deaths.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo declares end of 16th Ebola outbreak
The Democratic Republic of the Congo today declared the end of the Ebola virus disease outbreak in Kasai Province, after no new cases were reported in the past 42 days since the last patient was disch...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
After 42 days with no new cases reported, the DRC declared an end of the #Ebola outbreak in Kasai Province. The outbreak which started in early September had a total of 64 cases (53 confirmed, 11 probable) and 45 deaths.
www.afro.who.int/countries/de...
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🌍 @ranafrica.org launched the Kenya Working Group, together with PHM Kenya and @rani.co. The Kenya Working Group will strengthen national coordination and advance RANA’s mission: building a resilient, healthy Africa rooted in its people yet globally connected. www.ranafrica.org/news/launchi...
Launching the RANA Kenya Working Group - Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA)
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November 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
🌍 @ranafrica.org launched the Kenya Working Group, together with PHM Kenya and @rani.co. The Kenya Working Group will strengthen national coordination and advance RANA’s mission: building a resilient, healthy Africa rooted in its people yet globally connected. www.ranafrica.org/news/launchi...
Representing @ranafrica.org, Aminata Wurie shares her thoughts on the #G20 Social Summit and the path forward to translate commitments into tangible impact.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Representing @ranafrica.org, Aminata Wurie shares her thoughts on the #G20 Social Summit and the path forward to translate commitments into tangible impact.
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PAN is now rani – Resilience Action Network International @rani.co
The world has changed over the past 5 years – and so have we. As rani, a global advocacy network, we will build societal resilience to overcome shifts, change, and crises.
⚡️ rani.co/evolving-to-...
The world has changed over the past 5 years – and so have we. As rani, a global advocacy network, we will build societal resilience to overcome shifts, change, and crises.
⚡️ rani.co/evolving-to-...
Evolving to become rani - RANI
Dear colleagues and friends, Following five and a half years of evolution, today PAN becomes rani, which stands for Resilience Action Network International. Rani is a global advocacy network, coordin...
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November 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
PAN is now rani – Resilience Action Network International @rani.co
The world has changed over the past 5 years – and so have we. As rani, a global advocacy network, we will build societal resilience to overcome shifts, change, and crises.
⚡️ rani.co/evolving-to-...
The world has changed over the past 5 years – and so have we. As rani, a global advocacy network, we will build societal resilience to overcome shifts, change, and crises.
⚡️ rani.co/evolving-to-...
"The AHSS agenda represents Africa’s transition from dependency to ownership, from vulnerability to resilience, and from aspiration to action... A sovereign and secure Africa strengthens global health security for all."
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Africa’s Health Security and Sovereignty (AHSS) Agenda – Africa CDC
A practical and transformative framework to ensure African nations can finance, produce, and govern their own health systems and medical countermeasures.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"The AHSS agenda represents Africa’s transition from dependency to ownership, from vulnerability to resilience, and from aspiration to action... A sovereign and secure Africa strengthens global health security for all."
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The deadly fever in Ethiopia has been identified as Marburg disease.
It’s the first time a Marburg outbreak has been identified in Ethiopia.
#IDsky 🧪
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It’s the first time a Marburg outbreak has been identified in Ethiopia.
#IDsky 🧪
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Ethiopia confirms first outbreak of Marburg virus disease
Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health has confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus disease in the South Ethiopia Region, the first of its kind in the country, following laboratory testing of samples from a clus...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The deadly fever in Ethiopia has been identified as Marburg disease.
It’s the first time a Marburg outbreak has been identified in Ethiopia.
#IDsky 🧪
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It’s the first time a Marburg outbreak has been identified in Ethiopia.
#IDsky 🧪
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Reflections from @ranafrica.org Executive Director and @panaction.bsky.social Africa Director Aggrey Aluso from the #G20 Health Ministerial. www.linkedin.com/posts/aggrey...
#sag20 #vaccineswork | Aggrey Aluso
🌍 Reflections from the #SAG20 Health Ministerial in Limpopo, South Africa:
It was an honor to attend and contribute to the discussions at the G20 Health Ministerial last week (5–7 November)— a pivota...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Reflections from @ranafrica.org Executive Director and @panaction.bsky.social Africa Director Aggrey Aluso from the #G20 Health Ministerial. www.linkedin.com/posts/aggrey...