AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoEbola Emergency: The DRC’s Bundibugyo outbreak has passed 9,000 confirmed cases and 4,300 deaths. Armed conflict and weak contact tracing are hampering response efforts, raising concern across the region. Pandemic Preparedness: Rwanda co-facilitated UN negotiations on a pandemic declaration adopted by 153 countries, calling for stronger surveillance, resilient health systems and fair access to vaccines and treatments. Nutrition Policy: East African lawmakers, including Rwandan legislator Aisha Nyiramana, are pushing common food standards, clearer labels and tighter limits on marketing unhealthy foods to children. Harm Reduction: Draft Rwandan guidelines propose better access to HIV prevention and treatment, mental health care and overdose response for people who use drugs. Food Security: An egg-farming programme that has trained farmers in Malawi and Ethiopia plans to expand to Rwanda, aiming to improve nutrition and farmer incomes.
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