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1. BMBF African research funding initiative launched
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Mr. Frithjof Maennel. Prof.Yunus Mgaya.
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INDEPTH Network was represented at the launch of research networks for health innovations in Sub-Saharan Africa. The meeting was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, from 14-15 February 2017 and attended by over 150 delegates.
In 2014, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) started a new funding initiative for the establishment and expansion of these kind of research networks, which combines support for excellent research with capacity strengthening activities aimed at sustainably advance the health research landscape in African partner countries. Read more
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2. Our Grants & Consultancy Services Manager kindly requests for your Annual Technical and Audited Financial Reports
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Our Grants & Consultancy Services Manager, Felicia Manu-Asamoa, expresses hope that 2017 has started well with all our centre leaders and their various teams. In order that the Network continues to serve you well, especially in awarding sub-grants, the Resource & Training Centre in Accra always needs to have proof that we know our centres very well. Please send to Felicia (felicia.manu@indepth-network.org) your recent annual technical and audited financial reports of your institutions. She would appreciate your support.
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3. Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) call for proposals
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The African Academy of Sciences and the NEPAD Agency’s Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) is happy to announce the launch of the call for proposals for the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa), a major genomic research programme. The call is being launched with the support of the Wellcome Trust and the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Africa NCD Open Lab Initiative. Read more
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1. CHILILAB HDSS:
Household trends in access to improved water sources in a Viet Nam town
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Using water to clean hands.
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Access to safe water and basic sanitation is needed to maintain and improve health. Polluted water and lack of sanitation increase the risk for various diseases, including cholera, typhoid, schistosomiasis, respiratory infections, skin infections, eye infections, and even some cancers through exposure to carcinogens. There are still currently more than 700 million people, mostly the poor and marginalised people in low-and middle-income countries that lack access to improved sources of drinking water. Access to improved sanitation is also a substantial problem for low-and middle-income countries where approximately 2.5 billion people do not use any improved toilets, with one billion people still practicing open defecation.
This article analyses the survey data from 2004-2014 to describe household trends in access to improved water and sanitation separately, and to identify factors associated with access to improved water and sanitation facilities in combination, in Chi Linh Town in Vietnam. The results will help to draw a comprehensive picture of the water and sanitation situation at local level, and inform policymakers about the direction that adequate access to improved water sources and sanitation is heading. Read more
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2. Africa Centre:
Human Resources for treating HIV/AIDS: Are the preventive effects of ARTs a Game Changer?
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Nurse attending to a patient
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Shortages of human resources for treating HIV/AIDS (HRHA) are a fundamental barrier to reaching universal antiretroviral treatment (ART) coverage in developing countries. Previous studies suggest that recruiting HRHA to attain universal ART coverage poses an insurmountable challenge as ART significantly increases survival among HIV-infected individuals. While new evidence about ART’s prevention benefits suggests fewer infections may mitigate the challenge, new policies such as treatment-as-prevention (TasP) will exacerbate it. Researchers developed a mathematical model to analytically study the net effects of these countervailing factors. Using South Africa as a case study, they found that contrary to previous results, universal ART coverage is achievable even with current HRHA numbers. However, larger health gains are possible through a surge-capacity policy that aggressively recruits HRHA to reach universal ART coverage quickly. Without such a policy, TasP roll-out can increase health losses by crowding out sicker patients from treatment, unless a surge capacity exclusively for TasP is also created. Read more
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Policy Engagement and Communications
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