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<p>In this episode of Saving Lives and Livelihoods, the team from Africa CDC showcase their coordinated responds during the times when Covid-19 was at its peak.</p>


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<p>The 2024 edition of the Africa Business Forum invited the public and private sector to have an open dialogue about Africa’s efforts to accelerate the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and the agenda 2063, the Africa we want. This Focus On brings key voices to highlight what needs to be done to boost Africa’s transformation through education, technology, and innovation.</p>


Focus On ABF: Boosting Africa’s Transformation through Education, Science, Technology & Innovation

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<p>The Africa Business Forum 2024, a pivotal event which recently took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Spearheaded by Claver Gatete, the UN Deputy Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, this gathering marks a significant milestone in shaping the continent&#8217;s future. Under the overarching theme of &#8220;Boosting Africa’s Transformation through Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation,&#8221; leaders, innovators, and visionaries converge to explore pathways for sustainable growth and development.</p>


ABF 2024: Boosting Africa’s Transformation through Education, Science, Technology & Innovation

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<p>In this episode Saving Lives and Livelihoods, the team travels to Tanzania as part of the national vaccination programme.</p>


Saving lives and saving livelihoods initiative: Tanzania’s vaccination story

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<p>Africa Business Forum will be held under the theme, Boosting Africa’s transformation through education, science, technology, and innovation. The goal of the Africa Business Forum is to promote an on-going dialogue between the private and the public sectors in Africa to accelerate collective efforts towards realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want, of the African Union. This segment will interrogate what it will take to realise the &#8220;Africa We Want&#8221; and reimagine Africa&#8217;s Tech and STEM future.</p>


Africa Business Forum 2024: Reimagining Africa’s Tech & STEM Future

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<p>Africa continues to face significant headwinds including rising living costs, weakening economic growth, tightening of global financial conditions, increasing effects of climate change, lingering impacts of health pandemics, and geopolitical tensions. This panel discussion reflects on Africa&#8217;s Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook Report for 2024.</p>


AfDB: Africa’s 2024 Macroeconomic Performance & Outlook Report

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<p>In this episode of Saving Lives and Livelihoods Initiative, we visit Katavi in Tanzania to see what the national vaccination program has achieved while delivering vaccinations against measles.</p>


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<p>While the Covid-19 Pandemic posed a threat to the world and to Africa, it also presented an opportunity to rethink, shift and reset. In the face of Covid-19 Ethiopia took the initiative to implement improved practices focusing on water, sanitation and hygiene.</p>


Saving Lives and Saving Livelihoods Initiative: Strengthening of Africa’s health systems

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<p>The African Economic Summit 2023 brought together leaders from across disciplines to discuss the Imperatives for Sustainable Industrial Development in Africa. These are the closing remarks at the end of three days of in-depth deliberation.</p>


African Economic Conference 2023: Closing Session

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<p>This panel discussion from the African Economic Conference 2023 held in Ethiopia, explores the role of Special Economic Zones in promoting sustainable development in Africa.</p>


African Economic Conference 2023: Role of SEZs in Africa’s economic development

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<p>It is almost getting close to a year when a war broke out in the Northern Tigray region in Ethiopia. The crisis has taken scores of the lives of people in that region, and several businesses have shut down. Today we ask the fate of Tigray. Joining CNBC Africa for this discussion is Feven Girmay, Researcher at the Harvard University, and Samuel Getachaw, Political and Economic Analyst.</p>


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<p>According to Ethiopia&#8217;s electoral board, more than 37 million of Ethiopia’s 110-plus million people were registered to vote, choosing from 46 parties and more than 9,000 candidates.  The vote is seen as a crucial test for the prime minister, whose rise to power in 2018 initially seemed to signal a break with decades of authoritarian rule, but since, there has been a rise in conflict in the Tigray region.  Economic Analyst,Samuel Getachew joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


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<p>Ethiopia’s economy is expected to expand by 8.7 per cent in the 2021/22 fiscal year, more than the 8.5 per cent previously forecast, according to the budget speech read on Tuesday. It comes as the country announces it will spend $12.95 billion in the same fiscal year. Zemedeneh Negatu, Global Chairman, Fairfax Africa Fund, spoke to CNBC Africa’s Julius Bizimungu for more.</p>


Ethiopia’s economy projected to grow 8.7% in 2021/22

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<p>Ernst &#038; Young, one of the four largest international consulting firms, is inching closer in its bid to serve as a transaction adviser in the privatisation of 10 out of the 13 state-owned sugar factories in Ethiopia. Brooks Taye, Senior Advisor in the Ministry of Finance joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Plans to privatize Ethiopia’s sugar sector at advanced stage

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<p>African Union Member States (55) reporting COVID-19 cases (4,812,313), deaths (130,025) and recoveries (4,351,816) by region:    Central (172,873 cases; 2,781 deaths; 159,001 recoveries): Burundi (4,650; 6; 4,198), Cameroon (77,982; 1,270; 72,926), CAR (7,085; 97; 6,665), Chad (4,927; 173; 4,742), Congo (11,658; 153; 10,591), DRC (31,386; 782; 27,654), Equatorial Guinea (8,476; 113; 8,146), Gabon (24,365; 150; 21,791), Sao Tome and Principe (2,344; 37; 2,288)    Eastern (647,406; 12,678; 536,199): Comoros (3,949; 146; 3,719), Djibouti (11,523; 153; 11,354), Eritrea (4,022; 14; 3,812), Ethiopia (270,944; 4,139; 235,850), Kenya (170,041; 3,124; 116,018), Madagascar (41,184; 828; 40,028), Mauritius (1,356; 17; 1,181), Rwanda (26,878; 352; 25,542), Seychelles (11,145; 40; 9,936), Somalia (14,647; 768; 6,717), South Sudan (10,688; 115; 10,514), Sudan (35,289; 2,600; 27,949), Tanzania** (509; 21; 178), Uganda (45,231; 361; 43,401)    Northern (1,453,109; 43,808; 1,276,107): Algeria (128,198; 3,586; 89,292), Egypt (259,540; 14,950; 190,254), Libya (184,815; 3,116; 171,279), Mauritania (19,407; 462; 18,377), Morocco (518,458; 9,135; 506,443), Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (739; 46; 691), Tunisia (341,952; 12,513; 299,771)    Southern (2,066,519; 64,531; 1,933,721): Angola (33,607; 745; 27,529), Botswana (56,313; 831; 50,494), Eswatini (18,587; 672; 17,855), Lesotho (10,825; 326; 6,434), Malawi (34,323; 1,154; 32,598), Mozambique (70,697; 835; 69,232), Namibia (54,268; 807; 50,053), South Africa (1,654,551; 56,293; 1,551,520), Zambia (94,430; 1,275; 91,443), Zimbabwe (38,918; 1,593; 36,563)    Western (472,406; 6,227; 446,788): Benin (8,058; 101; 7,893), Burkina Faso (13,424; 166; 13,248), Cabo Verde (30,122; 261; 28,163), Côte d&#39;Ivoire (47,195; 301; 46,591), Gambia (5,990; 178; 5,767), Ghana (93,775; 784; 91,853), Guinea (23,110; 161; 20,840), Guinea Bissau (3,760; 68; 3,511), Liberia (2,179; 86; 2,033), Mali (14,262; 516; 9,559), Niger (5,409; 192; 5,080), Nigeria (166,254; 2,071; 156,546), Senegal (41,296; 1,138; 39,932), Sierra Leone (4,140; 79; 3,128), Togo (13,432; 125; 12,644)Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).</p>
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Coronavirus: African Union Member States reporting COVID-19 cases as of 29 May 2021, 9 am EAT

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<p>In February this year, Job Creation Commission said close to 1.7 million jobs were created in the six months prior in Ethiopia. Bernard Laurendeau, Senior Adviser to the Commissioner of the Ethiopian Jobs Creation Commission spoke with CNBC Africa on how they managed to pull it off at a time when the global economy was impacted by the pandemic.</p>


Ethiopia adds 1.7 million jobs in first-half of 2021

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<p>With COVID-19 vaccine supplies to Africa slowing down, the continent is working to boost its own manufacturing capacities for vaccines, medicines and vital health technologies. </p>
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<p>Mrs Biruk Abate Halallo, Health Attaché at Ethiopia’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations Offices in Geneva, is the driving force behind a resolution on the local manufacturing of medicines, medical technologies and vaccines that is being presented at the World Health Assembly, WHO’s leading decision-making body, this week. </p>
<p>What is the resolution for?</p>
<p>Africa suffers more than its fair share of communicable and non-communicable diseases. Over 90% of the world’s malaria deaths and 70% of all people living with HIV/AIDS are in Africa. More access to good medicines could significantly reduce this needless human toll. </p>
<p>Ninety-five per cent of all medicines used in Africa are imported and the continent accounts for just 3% of all medicine production globally. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed Africa’s vulnerabilities in ensuring access to vital drugs, vaccines and health technologies and more and more African governments view the supply of safe, effective and affordable medicines and vaccines as a national security issue.</p>
<p>Boosting local production will save lives, boost public health and strengthen African economies, including supporting local jobs. It should also trigger the sharing of crucial technologies. </p>
<p>The full title of the resolution presented at the World Health Assembly this week is ‘Strengthening Local Production of Medicines and Other Health Technologies to Improve Access.’</p>
<p>It covers strengthening local production, promoting technology transfers and innovation and considering the agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights  and intellectual property rights through the lens of boosting local production. </p>
<p>The resolution was co-sponsored by more than 100 WHO Member States, including 54 African countries.</p>
<p>What are the next steps?</p>
<p>WHO Member States and WHO must push on with the recommendations in the resolution. </p>
<p>Member States should align their national and regional policies and strategies around local production. This will help economies of all sizes build synergies, share the workload and avoid costly duplication. </p>
<p>African market integration and trade facilitation is crucial and African countries must make better use of regional economic integration platforms such as the Economic Community of West African States,  the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa and  The new African Continental Free Trade Agreement offer great opportunities.</p>
<p>More integration will help lead to the manufacturing of products that are in high demand in the region, will expand access to more markets and make local production sustainable.</p>
<p>Countries should formulate education policies that foster research and development in pharmaceuticals as well as encouraging thousands more people to gain skills to thrive in the industry. Countries must strengthen and harmonize their regulatory systems to ensure all medical products are of the highest quality and that local manufacturers adhere to international standards. </p>
<p>WHO should strengthen its role in providing leadership and direction in promoting the strategic use of quality and sustainable local production of medicines and other health technologies. It must keep up the technical support to Member States, as well as in developing policies, capacities and aiding partnership building and international collaboration. </p>
<p>To fully implement this resolution we need strong political commitment from WHO Member States. We need more public and private partnerships. Support from WHO and other partners is key and we may need additional resources and investment in infrastructure to get going.</p>
<p>What is Ethiopia doing to boost manufacturing at home?</p>
<p>There are 12 medicine manufacturers and 38 medical supply and device manufacturers working in Ethiopia and that are licensed by the Ethiopian Food and Drug Administration. </p>
<p>Building on this is a priority and with technical and financial support from WHO, we have developed a National Strategy and Plan of Action for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Development. This was the first country-level adaptation of the vision of the African Union’s Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plan for Africa  which aims to catalyse local African pharmaceutical production.</p>
<p>Rolling out the strategy brings together key government ministries, regulatory agencies and other stakeholders and partners. It is run by a Steering Committee that is co-chaired by the  Ministry of Health and the Ministry for Trade and Industry.</p>
<p>As part of this we are strengthening our regulatory capacity by reforming the National Regulatory Authority and have set up a new institute to support the pharmaceutical industry.</p>
<p>We are also supporting and encouraging domestic and international investment through shaping a conducive business environment. This includes offering incentives to encourage local manufacturing and setting up the Kilinto Pharmaceutical Industrial Park. </p>
<p>We’re also working to improve policy coherence, product diversification, human capital development and capacity building across the pharmaceutical sector.</p>
<p>How do you boost demand to sustain local manufacturing?</p>
<p>The key drivers of pharmaceutical demand in Ethiopia are population growth, economic growth, rising health coverage and efforts to address more and different diseases.</p>
<p>With over 112 million people and an annual population growth rate of 2.3%, Ethiopia is Africa’s second most populous nation. It has the fastest growing economy in the region, with growth averaging 9.4% a year from 2010 to 2020. As the spendable income of the population rises, so too does the demand for basic health services, including medicines.</p>
<p>The expansion of Ethiopia’s primary health care sector in the last 15 years has been hailed as a model in sub-Saharan Africa. Since 2003 we have worked to reach more communities and the percentage of women receiving antenatal care by a skilled provider increased from 27% in 2000 to 74% in 2019. Births in health facilities rose from 5% to 48% in that period.</p>
<p>Ethiopia has also introduced a community health insurance scheme in 75% of our districts. This has helped ensure communities engage with health services, which in turn drives demand for medicine’s and medical supplies.</p>
<p>Moreover, Ethiopia is undergoing an epidemiological transition from communicable diseases to non-communicable disease and injuries, and efforts to address all types of public health problems is changing the demand for medicines and health technologies.</p>
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