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Vol 17. No. 3. August 2024
EDITORIAL
Mpox is a public health emergency of international concern
Edward Eremugo Kenyi, Editor-in-Chief, SSMJ
On August 13, 2024, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared the continuing Mpox outbreak in Central Africa a “Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS),” a declaration that empowered the organization to “lead and coordinate responses to significant health emergencies.”
A day later, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, also declared that the Mpox outbreak “constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC).”
The global health bodies’ quick responses signify the urgency with which a response is needed. For Africa CDC, it was the first time the centre had made such a declaration since its foundation in 2017.
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South Sudan Starts the Implementation of the Health Sector Transformation Project
22 July, 2024
The Ministry of Health in South Sudan announced that it had started to implement the Health Sector Transformation Project (HSTP) across the country. The health facilities to be supported are those that were previously supported by Health Pooled Fund (HPF) and UNICEF/World Bank including 11 hospitals and other humanitarian-supported facilities in all states. Additional facilities will come on board once verification is done by the Ministry of Health based on health facility assessment.
HSTP support will include the provision of health supplies, some capacity building, operational costs, and payment sf incentives for health service providers at various levels of health service delivery in line with MoH staffing norms.