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He embarked on a two-year field epidemiology training program led by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Nigeria. This took him to 29 of the country’s 36 states, where he gained extensive field experience in infectious disease surveillance and response. Upon completion of the program, Dr. Seriki led a World Health Organization joint vaccination program in Nigeria focused on measles and meningitis.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>And then COVID-19 struck. With immunization programs paused and the pandemic calling for his expertise, Dr. Seriki headed to Lagos, the epicenter of COVID-19 in Nigeria. There, as a member of the COVID-19 response team, he supported the country’s surveillance efforts, including point-of-entry screening and testing.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>This led him to Jhpiego Sierra Leone, where he leads the CDC-funded Enhancing Global Health Security project. Recently, he sat down with Jhpiego’s Joan Taylor to discuss this critically important work.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" data-id=\"3725\" src=\"https://jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-every-ourbreak-Aug-2025-image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3725\" srcset=\"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-every-ourbreak-Aug-2025-image-1.jpg 800w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-every-ourbreak-Aug-2025-image-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-every-ourbreak-Aug-2025-image-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-every-ourbreak-Aug-2025-image-1-768x768.jpg 768w, 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sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" />\u003C/figure>\n\u003C/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>\u003Cbr>Q: What is border health and how does it protect people?\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>IS: We do many forms of screening in terms of immigration—customs to check goods you are coming in with, and immigration to check whether you are eligible to come into the country. Port health services include screening passengers for disease as they enter or leave a country.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u003Cp>“But diseases do not recognize borders, crossing points or points of entry, so border health is not limited to screening, but also includes intensifying surveillance in the border communities and collaborating with neighboring countries on public health functions”. — Ibrahim Seriki\u003C/p>\n\u003C/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>It also includes risk communication, infection prevention and control, laboratory capacity for testing at the point of entry, and vaccination. As the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) outline, the point is to prevent the international spread of diseases. [The IHR (2005) is a legally binding agreement among 196 countries that defines how countries should respond to public health emergencies of international concern.]\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Q: How does health security at land borders differ from health security at airports or seaports?\u003C/strong>\u003C/h5>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>IS: The vast majority of travelers are crossing through the land borders—at both designated [those that meet IHR core capacities] and undesignated ground crossing points—not the airport. Only people who have money can afford to fly. \u003Cstrong>Ground crossing points should get more attention\u003C/strong> when it comes to response. The risk of spread is evident from the Ebola outbreak in 2014/2015. The outbreak started in Guinea and affected all the neighboring countries because the communities are so interconnected, with vast population movement. The majority of people who pass through the crossing points live within the border communities, especially those informal crossing points that are not manned. So it’s necessary to intensify surveillance in the nearby health facilities—and ensure the supply of medical consumables.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Q: What are the main issues to consider when developing a border security plan?\u003C/strong>\u003C/h5>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>IS: For border health generally, we are governed by the International Health Regulations. At the same time, we try to tailor the response plan to the locally accepted way of doing things. Then, of course, \u003Cstrong>communication is key\u003C/strong>. You need to communicate to travelers why you’re doing this, what are the risks, what diseases are endemic in the visiting country. And there should be community engagement with border communities, because in some places people are crossing without [border] personnel for screening. Community stakeholders can play a role in supporting these unmanned crossing points.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Q: How do you prepare health workers and officials from different countries to work together and respond to an actual health emergency?\u003C/strong>\u003C/h5>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>IS: You have to maintain collaboration over time. If there’s \u003Cstrong>strong collaboration between countries\u003C/strong>, maybe through a formal agreement and information-sharing mechanism, then there can be a joint response because they’re used to doing things together. We initiated some level of collaboration during a regional tabletop exercise [a desktop simulation of an emergency response, such as a Lassa fever outbreak]. Our colleagues from Liberia and Guinea came to act as observers and evaluators, and we also went to Liberia to do the same. We’ve built some connections. To sustain that connection, we have to continue to do activities together. We’ve had regional meetings, as well, with the four countries in the Mano River Union region (Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Côte d’Ivoire) and binational meetings with Liberia.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>We need joint cross-country plans, like the one we developed for Sierra Leone and Liberia during one of our cross-border meetings. Prediction and prevention of outbreaks will only be relevant if countries respond as one.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Every outbreak is a lesson\u003C/strong>. After the Ebola outbreak, diverse country coordination has been strengthened. Countries have learned how to mount an effective response to public health emergencies. The COVID-19 pandemic also provided an opportunity for the health security to be strengthened, despite language differences. For instance, Guinea has had recent disease outbreaks (especially viral hemorrhagic fevers) in the region. And they didn’t disappoint. They shared a lot of best practices. That’s the idea of these exercises—simulating a scenario and everybody gets to talk about how they would respond.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>You can never stop preparing. It’s not cheap, but if you prepare very well, it will save you a lot more money if there is a pandemic or outbreak—and not just money, but lives lost. Preparedness helps reduce the money you’re spending when there’s an emergency. That’s why we have partnerships like \u003Ca href=\"https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/financial-intermediary-fund-for-pandemic-prevention-preparedness-and-response-ppr-fif/overview\">The Pandemic Fund\u003C/a>. The World Bank, Global Fund, everybody now wants to invest in preparedness.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Q: What other actions are you taking to support border health?\u003C/strong>\u003C/h5>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>IS: Something we are doing uniquely here is \u003Cstrong>population movement mapping in land border\u003C/strong> districts to identify areas with risk of disease transmission. This is a mixed-method study with qualitative focus group discussions and spatial analysis to identify where people frequent, including their point of entry and the reason for the visit. It could be for health care, for religious purposes, for schooling, or for markets. When we identify which areas are visited the most, we plan in terms of what to do if there’s an outbreak in the neighboring country, and make plans to allocate resources accordingly. During preparedness or silent periods, we can recommend that those places be strengthened for surveillance as well as risk communication. You can strengthen surveillance at the health facility. You can strengthen risk communication at the schools, at the market and at religious sites. You can also target the health facility for increased infection prevention supplies because they may be at more risk.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>We are also supporting the Ministry of Health to develop \u003Cstrong>a national border health policy\u003C/strong>. While the public health emergency response plan is meant for emergency settings, the border policy will guide both routine and emergency settings. The policy, based on the International Health Regulations, will detail the governance, components of the port health system and roles and responsibilities of the different sectors working in the national border health system. I don’t think any other country has this policy. 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confront an outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola virus disease, Jhpiego is expanding its support to governments and frontline health workers to strengthen surveillance and rapid response efforts aimed at preventing further spread of the disease.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The current outbreak represents a particularly urgent global health security challenge. Unlike the more common Zaire strain of Ebola, there is currently no licensed vaccine or specific treatment for the Bundibugyo strain, making early detection, rapid isolation, and strong public health systems the most effective tools for containing transmission.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“Ebola spreads fastest when health systems are weakest,” said Dr. Tigistu Ashengo, chief medical officer for Jhpiego. “That’s why our teams are working directly with Africa CDC and the governments of Uganda and the DRC to ensure health systems can stop the spread of Ebola now.”\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Supporting Uganda’s Response\u003C/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In Uganda, Jhpiego is working alongside the Ministry of Health to strengthen the country’s ability to detect and respond to new Ebola cases. With funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through the Enhancing Global Health Security (EGHS) project, the organization is supporting surveillance teams at key points of entry, helping identify and monitor individuals who may have been exposed to the virus, and reinforcing systems for early case detection.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strengthening Surveillance and Early Detection\u003C/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003Cli>Supporting screening activities at key points of entry, including the Kazinga Channel and Lake Edward along the Congo-Uganda border, where the proximity of Ebola cases requires heightened surveillance.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Helping identify and monitor people who may have been exposed to the virus while strengthening systems for early case detection.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Improving Data and Emergency Coordination\u003C/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003Cli>Deploying health informatics fellows to high-risk districts to strengthen data management during the outbreak response.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Improving communication infrastructure and data transmission by facilitating internet connectivity at critical coordination sites, including Entebbe International Airport and Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs).\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Supporting seven electronic data management systems used across the outbreak response:\n\u003Cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003Cli>ePHEM (Electronic Public Health Emergency Management)\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>ODK (mobile data collection for field teams)\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>eIDSR (Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response)\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>iOS (data collection application support)\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Alerts (alert capture, triage, and follow-up)\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Go.Data (case investigation and contact tracing)\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Partner Management (partner coordination and tracking)\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Supporting the establishment of the Africa CDC office in Kampala and the creation of a \u003Ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/allysonbear_ebola-globalhealth-ingo-activity-7477357291156049920-ygYA?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAdkfOIBwTagiDpQPZ2mf999lCK2tNggZwY\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/allysonbear_ebola-globalhealth-ingo-activity-7477357291156049920-ygYA?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAdkfOIBwTagiDpQPZ2mf999lCK2tNggZwY\">Joint Continental Incident Management Support Team\u003C/a> that brings together the Ministry of Health, Africa CDC, Jhpiego, and other implementing partners.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Preparing Frontline Health Workers\u003C/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003Cli>Equipping frontline personnel at four points of entry in Rubirizi District with the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to recognize, report, and respond to potential Ebola cases.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Public awareness and community engagement remain central to preventing transmission, with early reporting of symptoms and adherence to infection prevention measures playing vital roles in protecting families and communities.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strengthening Preparedness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\u003C/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In the DRC, Jhpiego is supporting efforts to contain the outbreak and prevent its spread to neighboring provinces and countries.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>With support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through the Emergency Global Health Security (EGHS) project, Jhpiego is helping provinces neighboring affected areas strengthen their surveillance, preparedness, and response capacities.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Recognizing that communities are often the first line of detection, Jhpiego is investing in community-based surveillance, risk communication and community engagement (RCCE), and border health security.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strengthening Community Surveillance and Engagement\u003C/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003Cli>Refreshing the skills of frontline health workers, contact tracers, community leaders, and members of Community Health Development Committees.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Reinforcing the supervisory capacity of Health Zone Management Teams.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Improving early warning systems to accelerate case detection and reporting.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Developing locally tailored communication materials—including flyers and radio spots—in partnership with the Ministry of Health and other partners.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Supporting community mobilization and public awareness campaigns.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Enhancing Border Preparedness and Cross-Border Collaboration\u003C/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003Cli>Delivering joint training for border officials on health, safety, and security risk detection.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Establishing screening points and health checks at strategic border crossings.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Convening regular information-sharing meetings with neighboring country authorities.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Mapping official and informal crossing points to improve surveillance and optimize resource deployment.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Preparing Frontline Responders\u003C/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003Cli>Conducting simulation exercises in high-risk health zones to test and strengthen outbreak preparedness.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Providing frontline community health workers and health facilities with operational support packages, including reporting tools, communication protocols, airtime for alert transmission, fever-screening devices, personal protective equipment (PPE), and other essential supplies needed to safely detect and report potential Ebola cases.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Jhpiego is also strengthening coordination and reporting mechanisms across multiple levels of the health system in high-risk provinces, improving information flow and cross-border collaboration as the outbreak evolves across provincial and national boundaries.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Building Long-Term Resilience\u003C/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Investments in preparedness and health system strengthening save lives. Jhpiego’s decades of experience responding to infectious disease outbreaks—including its support during the 2014–2016 West Africa Ebola epidemic—demonstrate the impact of sustained investments in infection prevention and control, surveillance systems, and workforce preparedness.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Through long-term partnerships with governments and institutions across Africa, including the recently launched Africa Health Security Accelerator, Jhpiego is helping build resilient, country-led systems capable of responding to current and future health threats.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“Isolation centers, surveillance systems, incident management structures, and trained health workers are the foundation of outbreak response,” said Dr. Ashengo. “When vaccines and treatments are limited or unavailable, we must rely on strong public health systems.”\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>As Ebola continues to threaten communities, Jhpiego remains committed to supporting governments and frontline responders in detecting outbreaks early, interrupting transmission, and strengthening health security for the future.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\n","\u003Cp>As the DRC and Uganda confront an outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola virus disease, Jhpiego is expanding its support to governments and frontline health workers to strengthen surveillance and rapid response efforts aimed at preventing further spread of the 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Silent Threat: How Antimicrobial Resistance is Putting Pakistan’s Health at Risk","\n\u003Cp>Imagine a world where simple infections become deadly because antimicrobials (medicines used to prevent and treat diseases) no longer work. This is not a distant dystopian future, it is a reality we are heading towards if we do not act now. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites no longer respond to antimicrobial medicines, is a growing crisis worldwide, and Pakistan is among the countries most affected. But what does this mean? And what can we do to stop it?\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>What is AMR?\u003C/strong>\u003C/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global health threat that occurs when infections no longer respond to the medications used to treat them, making them harder to treat and increasing the risk of severe illness, disability, and death. According to \u003Ca href=\"https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antimicrobial-resistance#:~:text=Key%20facts,4.95%20million%20deaths%20(1).\">global estimates\u003C/a>, AMR was directly responsible for approximately \u003Cstrong>1.27 million deaths\u003C/strong> in 2019, with millions more affected by resistant infections due to limited treatment effectiveness. Tragically, one child dies every three minutes from multidrug-resistant organism sepsis—when bacteria responsible for an infection are resistant to common antibiotics. In Pakistan, \u003Ca href=\"https://asm.org/magazine/2023/fall/exploring-a-one-health-approach-to-amr-in-pakistan#:~:text=The%20Status%20of%20AMR%20in,serotype%20Typhi%20(XDR%20typhoid).\">AMR was the third leading cause of death in 2019\u003C/a>, with alarmingly high resistance levels observed in several common disease-causing organisms. These include \u003Cem>Escherichia coli\u003C/em> (E. coli), which causes gastrointestinal infections; \u003Cem>Klebsiella pneumoniae\u003C/em> (K. pneumoniae), a major cause of pneumonia and Methicillin-resistant \u003Cem>Staphylococcus aureus\u003C/em> (MRSA), for bloodstream infections.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Why Should We Care?\u003C/strong>\u003C/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>As researchers, we’re dedicated to finding solutions to this growing threat. When these bacteria become resistant to treatment, even routine infections can become life-threatening.\u003Cem> \u003C/em>In the United States, over 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur annually, causing more than 35,000 deaths according to the \u003Ca href=\"https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/82532\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)\u003C/a> and in Pakistan Antimicrobial resistance contributes to 200,000 annual deaths according to the \u003Ca href=\"https://www.emro.who.int/pak/pakistan-news/antimicrobial-resistance-contributes-to-200-000-annual-deaths-in-pakistan-who-and-the-nih-call-for-action.html\">World Health Organization\u003C/a>. A \u003Ca href=\"https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/455311493396671601/pdf/executive-summary.pdf\">World Bank report\u003C/a> warns that AMR could cost up to $1 trillion to the annual global gross domestic product (GDP) by 2050. In Pakistan, surveillance efforts have expanded significantly, as seen in the \u003Ca href=\"https://www.nih.org.pk/public/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/National%20AMR%20Surveillance%20Report%20year%202021-2022.pdf\">National AMR Surveillance Report 2021–2022\u003C/a>, which covered over 229,000 bacterial isolates across 26 sentinel sites (a network of specific locations that collect detailed health data to monitor diseases and trends in a larger population). However, more inclusive approaches are still needed. For instance, the report lacks gender-disaggregated data, limiting the ability to understand how AMR affects women and children differently. Without this level of detail, targeted interventions to protect vulnerable groups will remain challenging to design and implement.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>This is exactly the gap Jhpiego’s recent consultations sought to address.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Recent Momentum in Pakistan: A Gender-Responsive Approach to AMR\u003C/strong>\u003C/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Recognizing these critical gaps in gender data and surveillance, Jhpiego recently gathered experts to find a solution. A national roundtable discussion on Gender Inequalities and AMR was held, attended by policymakers, clinicians, laboratory experts, veterinarians, academics, and public health leaders. Tigistu Adamu Ashengo, Chief Medical Officer at Jhpiego, presented insights on AMR and infectious diseases, while Elizabeth Arlotti-Parish, the former Principal Technical Advisor for Gender at Jhpiego, shared a powerful expert perspective. Their contributions sparked thoughtful dialogue among stakeholders, including National Institutes of Health\u003Cstrong> \u003C/strong>(NIH) leadership, the Fleming Fund, Pathfinder, and other partners.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Building on the roundtable, Jhpiego, in collaboration with the \u003Cstrong>NIH\u003C/strong> and the \u003Cstrong>Fleming Fund,\u003C/strong> led a \u003Cstrong>Consultative Workshop\u003C/strong> to begin drafting \u003Cstrong>Pakistan’s first Gender-Specific AMR Strategy\u003C/strong>. Using WHO’s key thematic recommendations, participants worked across four thematic areas—\u003Cstrong>Human Health, Animal Health, Agriculture, and Climate\u003C/strong>—to design strategic actions, define roles, and set realistic timelines. The outcomes of these discussions are now informing the development of a national strategy that recognizes how AMR impacts women, men, and communities differently.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IPC_Pakistan-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7662\" srcset=\"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IPC_Pakistan-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IPC_Pakistan-300x200.jpg 300w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IPC_Pakistan-768x512.jpg 768w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IPC_Pakistan-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IPC_Pakistan-810x540.jpg 810w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IPC_Pakistan-375x250.jpg 375w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IPC_Pakistan-960x640.jpg 960w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IPC_Pakistan-1280x854.jpg 1280w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IPC_Pakistan-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IPC_Pakistan.jpg 2047w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" />\u003C/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>How is AMR Affecting Pakistan?\u003C/strong>\u003C/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Several key insights emerged through discussions during the Jhpiego-hosted AMR and gender events:\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Systemic Challenges\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Col start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Health Facility Limitations\u003Cbr>\u003C/strong>Weak infection prevention and control (IPC) practices drive the spread of resistant infections. Facility upgrades and staff training are necessary to protect patients.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Surveillance Data Gaps\u003C/strong>\u003Cbr>Without gender-disaggregated AMR data, the invisible burden on women cannot be addressed. Strengthening data systems is vital for equitable policy response.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs)\u003C/strong>\u003Cbr>Unnecessary procedures and poor aseptic practices during childbirth and surgeries increase resistant infections. Strengthening IPC protocols can save lives.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Policy and Governance\u003C/strong>\u003Cbr>Weak enforcement, limited female representation in leadership, and unregulated antibiotic use in agriculture drive resistance. Strengthening policy, updating the National Action Plan, and integrating AMR into medical and veterinary training are critical.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Private Sector Engagement\u003C/strong>\u003Cbr>The private sector provides most outpatient care in Pakistan, yet it is often not integrated into AMR governance. Collaboration and incentives can close this gap.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Diagnostics and Surveillance\u003C/strong>\u003Cbr>Insufficient diagnostic capacity leads to guesswork, fueling antibiotic misuse. Pakistan must expand laboratory networks and invest in rapid, affordable diagnostic tools.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ol>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Community Level Challenges\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Col start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Prevention Challenges\u003C/strong>\u003Cbr>Rural populations face higher exposure due to livestock handling, caregiving roles, and limited access to health care. Women in particular are disproportionately exposed yet underrepresented in AMR decision-making. Empowering women as community educators and frontline responders is essential.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Overuse and Misuse of Antimicrobials\u003C/strong>\u003Cbr>Easy, prescription-free access encourages misuse, especially among women and children who may delay formal health care due to social restrictions. Stewardship programs and dispensing regulations are needed.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Community Engagement\u003C/strong>\u003Cbr>Harmful traditional practices and low awareness perpetuate infection risks. Culturally sensitive behavior change programs must include schools, families, religious leaders, and women’s community groups.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ol>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/51868903035_804ee02c76_k-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7663\" srcset=\"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/51868903035_804ee02c76_k-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/51868903035_804ee02c76_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/51868903035_804ee02c76_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/51868903035_804ee02c76_k-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/51868903035_804ee02c76_k-810x540.jpg 810w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/51868903035_804ee02c76_k-375x250.jpg 375w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/51868903035_804ee02c76_k-960x640.jpg 960w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/51868903035_804ee02c76_k-1280x854.jpg 1280w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/51868903035_804ee02c76_k-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/51868903035_804ee02c76_k.jpg 2047w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" />\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kamla Krishen fixes her protective gear while working at the civil hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. Photo by Saiyna Bashir for Jhpiego.\u003C/figcaption>\u003C/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>The Way Forward\u003C/strong>\u003C/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>AMR is a silent but deadly threat. We can still act and reverse the damage before it’s too late.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>By strengthening governance, improving prevention and surveillance, regulating antibiotic use, and spreading awareness, while advancing equality and empowering women across these approaches, we can slow the spread of AMR and protect future generations.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The fight against AMR is not just for doctors and scientists, it’s for all of us. The choices we make today will determine the health of tomorrow. Let’s work together to keep antimicrobials effective and safeguard public health for years to come!\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>Dr.\u003C/em> \u003Cem>Aminah Khan is the Country Director for Jhpiego Pakistan. \u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>Dr. Tigistu Ashengo is Jhpiego’s Chief Medical Officer.\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003C/p>\n","\u003Cp>Imagine a world where simple infections become deadly because antimicrobials (medicines used to prevent and treat diseases) no longer work. This is not a distant dystopian future, it is a reality we are heading towards if we do not act now. But what does this mean? 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By connecting ideas, expertise, and evidence, AHSA turns bold concepts into practical solutions that protect lives and strengthen trust in health systems.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>AHSA will connect countries, sectors, and frontier capabilities to transform the health security ecosystem from reactive to resilient by utilizing five strategic levers:\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Col class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003Cli>Accelerate: Fast-track promising solutions through rapid testing, evidence, and public-private collaboration to move from concept to scale.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Connect: Unite governments, innovators, researchers, investors, and private actors in co-design platforms that foster partnership, problem-solving, and shared learning across Africa.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Co-Create: Collaborate with start-ups, governments, and partners to refine problems and design and test forward-thinking approaches that strengthen health security systems.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Mobilize: Unlock investment, talent, and frontier expertise to accelerate implementation and sustain innovation ecosystems.\u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Generate: Produce actionable intelligence, from economic modeling to outbreak analytics, to inform decisions, guide investments, and strengthen resilience.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ol>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>AHSA is uniquely positioned for success through the combined leadership of Africa CDC, RBC, Jhpiego, and Villgro Africa. By combining expertise in continental leadership, national excellence, technical depth, and innovation acceleration, this partnership is well-suited to move from ideas to impact quickly and precisely.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“Jhpiego has a proven track record of successfully facilitating coalitions of diverse partners and managing high-impact accelerators,” said Dr. Kikaya. “We are thrilled to bring our expertise to this transformative initiative.”\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Together, these organizations will bridge governments, innovators, and investors to transform fragmented efforts into a cohesive engine for health security and resilience across Africa.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Hosted by RBC, AHSA launched with a co-creation workshop in October that convened top public health institutions, including Africa CDC, Johns Hopkins University, BioPrevail, Villgro Africa, and others. The workshop concluded with a shared vision for AHSA’s operational framework, governance, and investment strategy. Over the next year, AHSA will focus on launching key initiatives, under the leadership of RBC, with Africa CDC strengthening regional partnerships and launching priority initiatives.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>This partnership represents a bold step toward continental health resilience. 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With £500,000, Jhpiego and partner eHealth Africa aim to replace fragmented, paper-based inventory systems with affordable, technology-driven solutions that integrate stock control and surveillance mechanisms to detect substandard and falsified antibiotics and ensure the availability of antibiotics. \u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Over the next two years, Com-WATCH will deploy a community-powered, AI-enabled surveillance and inventory management tool. Through a simple app, SMS, and chatbot, users can verify the authenticity of antibiotics for human and animals using image recognition matched against Nigeria’s regulatory database. At the same time, vendors can track inventory, monitor expiry dates, and receive alerts before stock runs out, which can also operate offline. Every scan feeds into a national, real-time dashboard powered by machine learning, which predicts counterfeit hotspots and supply gaps, generate sufficient data, enabling early targeted public health response by regulators and stakeholders.  \u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"799\" height=\"533\" src=\"https://jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AMR_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4889\" srcset=\"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AMR_1.jpg 799w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AMR_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AMR_1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/AMR_1-375x250.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\" />\u003C/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Specifically, Com-WATCH will: \u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003Cli>Deploy digital tools in six high-burden Nigerian states, protecting millions of people from substandard and falsified antibiotics. \u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Equip and train thousands of medicine vendors with digital tools to track inventory, flag expired drugs, and ensure consistent availability of quality antibiotics. \u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Strengthen data infrastructure, feeding real-time intelligence to public health authorities for faster, targeted interventions. \u003C/li>\n\n\n\n\u003Cli>Generate Nigeria’s first community-level dataset on antibiotic safety, offering vital insights to inform AMR policy and response strategies. \u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“For Nigerians, this means a future where a mother buying medicine for her sick child can be confident it is genuine and effective,” said Dr. Oluwa’Yemisi Ogundare, Project Director for Global Health Security Initiatives and Com-Watch team lead at Jhpiego. “By empowering communities to detect fake drugs and providing vendors with tools to prevent stockouts of antibiotics, we reduce treatment failures, protect families from harm, and increase trust in the health system.” \u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“This recognition validates our commitment to tackling two of the most pressing challenges in global health, ensuring effective stock control and combating the circulation of substandard and falsified antibiotics,” said Dr. David Akpan, Deputy Director of eHealth Africa. “We are better positioned to strengthen supply chains, safeguard communities, and advance the global fight against antimicrobial resistance.”\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Globally, AMR is an antibiotic emergency predicted to cause millions of deaths, primarily in low- and middle-income countries. A lack of adequate antibiotic supplies and the use of poor-quality or counterfeit antibiotics can result in incorrect dosing. This means that medications may not effectively treat infections, which allows drug-resistant pathogens to grow and spread, compromising patient outcomes and accelerating the spread of antimicrobial resistance.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In response to a lack of comprehensive data on the prevalence of substandard and falsified antibiotics, particularly at the community level, Com-WATCH will create Nigeria’s first community-level antibiotic safety dataset and a scalable model. By tackling antimicrobial resistance at its source in the community, Com-WATCH will contribute a vital, real-world solution to a pressing global health security threat. It will serve as a replicable model for other low- and middle-income countries demonstrating how low-cost, AI-enabled, community-driven systems can strengthen health security from the ground up, protecting lives, curbing antimicrobial resistance, and advancing access to safe, effective antibiotics. \u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“This is an antibiotic emergency, and both innovation and collaboration are critical,” said Professor Dame Sally Davies, Founder of the Trinity Challenge at the prizewinner announcement. “In the face of antimicrobial resistance, a threat that knows no borders, [the Trinity Challenge prizewinning solutions] will not only benefit individual communities, they’ll benefit all of us now and our grandchildren.” \u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-button\">\u003Ca class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https://thetrinitychallenge.org/news-and-stories/trinity-challenge-2025-winners/\">Read The Trinity Challenge’s announcement here.\u003C/a>\u003C/div>\n\u003C/div>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>About Jhpiego\u003C/strong> \u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Jhpiego is a global health nonprofit with more than 50 years of experience innovating to save the lives of women, men, and families around the world. Originally established in 1973 as the Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics, Jhpiego has since evolved into a multidimensional organization with active programming in over 30 countries. In partnership with national governments, health experts, and local communities, Jhpiego creates and delivers transformative health care solutions that build providers’ skills, strengthen health systems, and ensure equitable access to high-quality, lifesaving care for all—regardless of location. \u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>About eHealth Africa\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>eHealth Africa empowers vulnerable and underserved communities to achieve healthier, more prosperous lives by strengthening health systems through innovative, data-driven digital solutions and person-centered care. They were founded in 2009 on the simple idea that communities in developing countries could have better health care when providers are able to make data-driven decisions. With over 500 staff, they have offices in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Germany and the United States and work across West Africa in many countries, including Chad, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Niger, and others.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>About The Trinity Challenge\u003C/strong> \u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The Trinity Challenge (TTC) is a charity supporting the creation of data-driven solutions to help protect against global health threats. 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This innovative application provides service providers with immediate access to stock information, allowing for the seamless initiation and tracking of requests or issuances of any FP commodity. Its versatility is evident as it can be operated from any location through web browsers or mobile applications, significantly reducing reliance on physical records and paperwork. The FPLMIS thus represents a significant leap forward in promoting efficiency and transparency within the Family Planning supply chain management system.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In the face of annual flood threats, the resilient community in the vulnerable blocks of Lakhimpur district, Assam, has embarked on a proactive journey to safeguard contraceptive security during climate crises. This year, the stakes were higher than ever, with a staggering 147% increase in rainfall, elevating the risk of flooding to unprecedented levels.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Identifying two blocks as highly susceptible, a targeted and comprehensive initiative was launched to fortify emergency preparedness. Engaging 62 health sub-centres and mobilizing 405 ASHAs, the intervention became a community-wide effort. Anticipating the imminent flood, all essential FP commodities were strategically positioned in the district warehouse, laying the groundwork for a swift and effective response.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https://jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Navigating-the-Waters-of-Resistance-Feature-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5726\" srcset=\"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Navigating-the-Waters-of-Resistance-Feature-Photo.jpg 1024w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Navigating-the-Waters-of-Resistance-Feature-Photo-300x226.jpg 300w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Navigating-the-Waters-of-Resistance-Feature-Photo-768x578.jpg 768w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Navigating-the-Waters-of-Resistance-Feature-Photo-717x540.jpg 717w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Navigating-the-Waters-of-Resistance-Feature-Photo-375x282.jpg 375w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Navigating-the-Waters-of-Resistance-Feature-Photo-960x723.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" />\u003C/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>As the flood alert echoed, a meticulous review involving block storekeepers, CHO/ANMs, and ASHAs ensued, assessing the availability of FP commodities. Over 90% of ASHAs utilized the FPLMIS application for requisitioning and ensuring timely dispatch of requested commodities before the floodwaters surged. Facilitated by USAID’s MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership: India-Yash, the proactive measures not only facilitated the seamless flow of FP commodities but also highlighted the efficiency of the existing FPLMIS application in streamlining emergency response.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The success of these measures is a testament to the robust and resilient system that emerged during unforeseen disasters. 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Patients from each unit were showing up with similar symptoms: high fever, convulsions, diarrhea and blood-stained vomit. And all of the patients were from the same location.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>A surveillance team of 12 from the Ministry of Health (MOH) was sent to the area to gather more information. There, the team discovered that seven people had died showing the same symptoms as those at the hospital. They collected samples that were transported to the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe for testing, more than a three-hour drive from Mubende Regional Referral Hospital. The samples tested positive for Ebola virus disease.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>On September 23, 2022, the government officially declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Mubende District. The district would be the initial epicenter of this outbreak, the first Ebola outbreak the country had seen in a decade.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In the thick of the storm: Quick actions and steps taken\u003C/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Swift action followed. The MOH set up a coordination center at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital, reassigned medical teams to the hospital and immediately issued personal protective equipment, handwashing stations, medicines and supplies. Mubende town was locked down.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Nurse Halima Adam was working at the accidents and emergencies unit when she was moved to the Ebola treatment unit (ETU), a temporary canvas structure set up within the Mubende Regional Referral Hospital compound. “As soon as the outbreak was declared, I called in six nurses to work fully at the ETU. A duty roster was made, and we coordinated procurement of medical items,” she said.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>By the second day, eight patients presenting with Ebola symptoms were isolated at the ETU.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>One evening as her shift ended, Juliet Nayiga, a laboratory technician at the hospital, was called to collect blood samples from the patients in the ETU, a daunting task under the circumstances. “I remember it was dark and the lights had not been set up at the ETU. I was panicking. With minimal protective gear and a torchlight, I went in and took samples,” says Juliet.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Out of the eight patients in the ETU, six tested positive for Ebola.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"715\" src=\"https://jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Braving-the-storm-image-1-1024x715.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4087\" srcset=\"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Braving-the-storm-image-1-1024x715.jpg 1024w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Braving-the-storm-image-1-300x210.jpg 300w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Braving-the-storm-image-1-768x536.jpg 768w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Braving-the-storm-image-1-773x540.jpg 773w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Braving-the-storm-image-1-375x262.jpg 375w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Braving-the-storm-image-1-960x671.jpg 960w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Braving-the-storm-image-1-1280x894.jpg 1280w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Braving-the-storm-image-1.jpg 1373w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" />\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u003Cem>Juliet Nayiga, a laboratory technician, at work in the Mubende Regional Referral Hospital.\u003C/em>\u003C/figcaption>\u003C/figure>\u003C/div>\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prepared and equipped: Galvanizing the team to weather the storm\u003C/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Back at the ETU, Halima’s team had grown to 30 nurses—providing supportive care to patients around the clock.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“Partners such as the World Health Organization and Jhpiego stepped in to help us. We created storage areas for the personal protective equipment and handwashing items. We learned how to set up the red and green zones to manage and treat confirmed cases,” Halima said.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Hospital staff later joined emergency medical teams and responders from various regions at a training conducted by the MOH, Doctors Without Borders, World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and Jhpiego to strengthen the skills of health workers. Halima lauded the importance of the training, saying: “It equipped us with skills in site layout, triaging, emergency care and management, donning and doffing, sanitation and hygiene procedures.”\u003C/p>\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"975\" height=\"731\" src=\"https://jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Braving-the-storm-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4088\" srcset=\"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Braving-the-storm-image-2.png 975w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Braving-the-storm-image-2-300x225.png 300w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Braving-the-storm-image-2-768x576.png 768w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Braving-the-storm-image-2-720x540.png 720w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Braving-the-storm-image-2-375x281.png 375w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Braving-the-storm-image-2-960x720.png 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" />\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u003Cem>Nurse Halima Adam supervises nurses in the accident and emergency unit at Mubende Regional Referral Hospital a year after the Ebola outbreak.\u003C/em>\u003C/figcaption>\u003C/figure>\u003C/div>\n\n\n\u003Cp>Jhpiego provided the technical component of the training on infection prevention and control and coordinated with the MOH to identify the responders who had previously been trained by WHO during the COVID-19 crisis. Jhpiego-trained staff were part of the responders seconded to the national incident management team, which was responsible for oversight during the Ebola outbreak, as pillar administrators to cover logistics, surveillance, risk communication, laboratory work, strategic information research and innovation.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>A total of 168 health workers were identified from three regional hospitals—Mubende, Gulu and Naguru—to be part of the training on infection prevention and control procedures, clinical care and psychosocial support. All affected districts enhanced their surveillance systems to ensure that all contacts would be identified, documented and followed up with for 21 days.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“It was tough at the beginning, but as time went by, it got better. Building on our previous experience from COVID-19 and the training by WHO, infection prevention and control processes became easier,” Halima said.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Uganda had a total of 164 Ebola patients in nine districts (142 confirmed cases and 22 probable), with 55 confirmed deaths. Mubende District reported the highest numbers, with 64 confirmed cases and 29 deaths due to Ebola virus disease. The last confirmed case was reported on November 14—exactly 56 days after the first confirmed case.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Calm after the storm\u003C/strong>\u003C/h4>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“Working as a team—the health care workers at the hospital, MOH and partners—was a critical aspect that contributed to managing the Ebola outbreak in Uganda,” says Deogratius Kamulegeya, Jhpiego’s technical officer in Uganda and part of the Mubende response team.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“Today, Jhpiego is working with the MOH through the Enhancing Global Health Security project, funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to develop an outbreak management support manual and set up a central data warehouse for all surveillance data for epidemic intelligence to support quick detection of outbreaks in Uganda,” said Peter Muwereza, Jhpiego’s Program Manager for the Enhancing Global Health Security project in Uganda.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>To this end, Jhpiego seconded six staff members to the MOH and is supporting the MOH and other implementing partners to develop tools such as data visualization and analytics, ensuring operationalization of the data warehouse and integrating data with the electronic medical records system.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Reflecting on the outbreak, Halima said: “I would have left when it got worse. But I stayed because of my experience working in the emergency unit for 11 years and responding to COVID-19. We admitted 64 patients and I had 30 nurses looking up to me. I mastered the courage to stay on because we were prepared and equipped to respond.”\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>Joan Nduta is Jhpiego’s Senior Communications Manager, Africa Region. Alisha Horowitz is a Senior Editor for Jhpiego. Josephine Watuulo, Knowledge Management Coordinator for Jhpiego Uganda, contributed to this story. Photo by Peter Caton for Jhpiego\u003C/em>.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>Aleisha Rosario, Director of the Enhancing Global Health Security project, provided a technical review of this story.\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n","\u003Cp>On September 23, 2022, the government of Uganda officially declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Mubende District. 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The medical staff initially suspected a snake bite; the herder was vomiting, had a high fever and an abnormal blood clotting profile. The health care provider tending to the herder didn’t wear goggles, a mask or gloves. Having been exposed to the patient’s bodily fluids, he rinsed his hands with just water and then sat down for dinner with his colleagues. Within days, that health care provider and others began suffering with shuddering chills and other severe symptoms of viral infection; one started bleeding from the nose and various mucous membranes.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Misdiagnoses and ineffective treatment complicated the situation. The cattle herder recovered but a week later, three health care workers died, including a doctor who had dined with colleagues and friends.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Now, two of the deceased doctor’s colleagues are sick. Although described as a disease of unknown origin at the start, there is new confirmation by the Provincial Public Health Laboratory of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), an endemic viral illness transmitted to humans by ticks or by infected animals, such as livestock. Human-to-human transmission occurs through direct contact with the blood and other body fluids of infected persons.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>This is where I come in. A Pakistani infection prevention and control (IPC) specialist working closely with the Ministry of Health on global health security issues, I was summoned to investigate and support the management of this outbreak. My charge is to help prevent the further spread of an illness that already has claimed the lives of three Pakistanis after it crossed the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and jumped from cattle to humans. A possible mutation in CCHF is rumored.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>I am, of course, completely outfitted with personal protective equipment (PPE) when I enter the isolation room occupied by the two doctors infected with CCHF.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"679\" height=\"448\" src=\"https://jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Tick-Tea-Image-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4083\" srcset=\"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Tick-Tea-Image-1.jpg 679w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Tick-Tea-Image-1-300x198.jpg 300w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Tick-Tea-Image-1-375x247.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" />\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u003Cem>Dr. Sobhan Qadir (left) supports the Ministry of Health in implementing the national IPC program.\u003C/em>\u003C/figcaption>\u003C/figure>\u003C/div>\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tea\u003C/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Inside are a half-dozen doctors. Some sit on a sofa sandwiched between the two hospital beds occupied by their sick colleagues. All had eaten and socialized with the doctor who died the previous day from massively severe bleeding.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>They sip tea and share fruit.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cblockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\u003Cp>“I think I am in the wrong room,” I apologize.” — \u003Cem>Dr. Sobhan Qadir\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\u003C/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“No, No,” they insist, welcoming me to enter. “This is the room of the doctors [who are now patients with CCHF] and we are here to have fruit with them.”\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>They offer me tea. No one wears gloves.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>They smile. No one wears a mask.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“I’m OK,” I say. “I’m good.”\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Actually, what I am is shocked. Even after losing their friend, a fellow doctor, basic transmission-based precautions are not being followed.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">IPC\u003C/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>I realized then the core reason behind this outbreak: Even if there was adequate PPE for everyone to wear routinely, at all times, they wouldn’t be wearing it here and now. And they plan to leave this “isolation” room soon and head back to their patients and families. As a former member of the Young Doctor Association in Pakistan from this same region, I can assure you that neither ignorance nor arrogance nor denial are at issue. Rather, this scene I’m witnessing reveals a dire need for advocacy, refresher training and attention to a specific cultural context where health care providers’ roles are highly prescribed and kinship and hospitality are paramount.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>It shows just how dangerous it is for all of us when IPC diligence wanes.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https://jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Tick-Tea-Image-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4084\" srcset=\"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Tick-Tea-Image-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Tick-Tea-Image-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Tick-Tea-Image-2-405x540.jpg 405w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Tick-Tea-Image-2-375x500.jpg 375w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Tick-Tea-Image-2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" />\u003Cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u003Cem>Dr. Qadir visits hospital departments.\u003C/em>\u003C/figcaption>\u003C/figure>\u003C/div>\n\n\n\u003Cp>In a calm, measured voice, I ask the visitors to please leave this “isolation” room and sequester in another room nearby.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>“It’s OK,” one doctor says, attempting to assuage my concerns. “We are using our own cups of tea.”\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Lax attitudes about PPE can thwart even the most innovative policies and evidence-based strategies to safeguard global health security. Doctors and surgeons in traditional hierarchical health care roles risk mistaking the implementation of IPC as someone else’s concern; notably as the duty of nurses who provide direct patient care. Providers in health care facilities and communities too often lack an understanding of the importance of the basics of preventing and controlling infections.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>More than Ebola, Zika and MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), COVID-19 showed us how failing to change a seemingly simple behavior can have alarming results. Not washing hands, not masking and not isolating caused preventable illness, suffering, death and economic havoc.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Certain diseases, like CCHF and COVID-19, require specific IPC responses that relate to the mode of transmission. There also are standard precautions that always apply, such as simple hand hygiene, protective equipment and waste management.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In this case, the Provincial Health Department took a systematic approach to control the outbreak with Jhpiego’s technical guidance and recommendations. Awareness, education, contact tracing, isolation measures and IPC precautions were instituted in the health care facility. But the lesson was clear: Be proactive in preventing infections and have at the ready a robust response by coordinating agencies, including those monitoring animal health. Don’t wait until a public health outbreak occurs.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Infection prevention and control is the cornerstone of global health security. Necessary as national documents and global guidelines are, all is for naught if proper implementation of IPC and related measures aren’t happening on the ground, not only in tertiary hospitals but also in provincial country hospitals and clinics.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>I’ve seen firsthand how a tiny tick and a sip of tea stand to challenge our most sophisticated data-led measures to ensure global health security. That’s why we need enough equipment and enhanced education and training, cultural awareness and regulations and a commitment to use them. The goal is to have PPE in place and IPC practices operational before we discover that a disease variant is just waiting for someone—anyone—to offer a cup of tea, believing using one’s own cup is protection enough against the next pandemic.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Enhancing Global Health Security, implemented by Jhpiego in 21 countries, strengthens IPC, diagnostics, surveillance and responses to public health threats by supporting nations’ health care systems. Funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the project addresses policy change at the national level and implementation of strategies in health care facilities and in communities. \u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>Dr. Sobhan Qadir, a physician, IPC specialist and health care system management expert, is the Global Gealth Security Program Lead and IPC Technical Advisor with Jhpiego Pakistan. He supports the Ministry of Health in implementing the national IPC program and Enhancing Global Health Security.\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>Maryalice Yakutchik is a senior writer with Jhpiego.\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>Aleisha Rozario, Director of Jhpiego’s Enhancing Global Health Security project, provided technical review.\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n","\u003Cp>Jhpiego and the Pakistan Ministry of Health helped control an outbreak of a deadly infectious disease A tick A Pakistani…\u003C/p>\n","a-tick-tea-and-ipc","https://jhpiego.org/our-stories/p/a-tick-tea-and-ipc/","/our-stories/p/a-tick-tea-and-ipc/","2024-06-12T17:36:00","2025-08-14T17:41:12",{"id":1386,"src":1387,"width":72,"height":77,"alt":20,"caption":20,"title":1388,"description":20,"mimeType":23,"html":1389,"srcset":1390,"sizes":1391,"meta":1392,"acf":1419},4084,"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-Tick-Tea-Image-2.jpg","Story-Tick Tea-Image 2","\u003Cimg width=\"960\" 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A Crucial Component to Improve Global Health Security","\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"https://jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-Burkina-Central-Reference-Laboratory-plus-Biobank_Sketch-1024x580.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4140\" srcset=\"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-Burkina-Central-Reference-Laboratory-plus-Biobank_Sketch-1024x580.jpg 1024w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-Burkina-Central-Reference-Laboratory-plus-Biobank_Sketch-300x170.jpg 300w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-Burkina-Central-Reference-Laboratory-plus-Biobank_Sketch-768x435.jpg 768w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-Burkina-Central-Reference-Laboratory-plus-Biobank_Sketch-954x540.jpg 954w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-Burkina-Central-Reference-Laboratory-plus-Biobank_Sketch-375x212.jpg 375w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-Burkina-Central-Reference-Laboratory-plus-Biobank_Sketch-960x544.jpg 960w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-Burkina-Central-Reference-Laboratory-plus-Biobank_Sketch-1280x725.jpg 1280w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-Burkina-Central-Reference-Laboratory-plus-Biobank_Sketch.jpg 1471w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" />\u003C/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The biobank. It’s an essential concept for our global health security systems and preventing the next disease outbreak. Unfortunately, it’s overlooked in most health care systems as disease response has become the primary focus over the past few years.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>A repository or collection of biological samples, a biobank aims to preserve biological resources—from humans, plants, animals and other aspects of nature—in optimal condition so they are available to the scientific community for the advancement of research and knowledge worldwide. This helps facilitate the development of innovative medicines, vaccines and diagnostic tests, which strengthens epidemiological surveillance and advances genomic research, such as discovering treatments for different types of cancer.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Samples donated by clients with breast cancer, for example, have been used to identify therapeutic targets and help predict which groups of people would (or would not) benefit from a particular treatment, thus providing critical information for the development of a treatment strategy. These client samples are an indispensable resource for cancer research and an unparalleled asset for the development of more effective personalized treatments for many diseases.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Biological specimens have been collected in biobanks for decades, but it was only in the 1990s that biobanks were established more systematically, predominantly in high-income countries. Today, despite being the second most populous continent with incredible biodiversity, Africa contributes very little to the advancement of research for treatment solutions. Biological data banks would help make scientific research more inclusive and wider reaching. The \u003Ca href=\"https://bbsa.org.za/\">Biodiversity Biobanks South Africa\u003C/a> project, for example, has more than half a million items in various biobanks across the country, but it is \u003Ca href=\"https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)31614-9/fulltext\">one of only a few country-based biobanks\u003C/a> on the continent, all of which contribute only \u003Ca href=\"https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.esmo.org%2Foncology-news%2Fthe-establishment-of-pan-africa-s-first-biobank&data=05%7C02%7CKatherine.Seaton%40jhpiego.org%7Cb4f086b3f8ff48ffc97908dc76958083%7C26ef7fd22a7f4135a2e4de9acf168b2a%7C0%7C0%7C638515631968696047%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=othCbg4eQhmhCuxMySSPszDhj3%2F66uXw6zfZi9b2B8g%3D&reserved=0\">2% of the data used in genome-wide studies\u003C/a>.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In Burkina Faso, local capacity for the conservation of biological samples has been weak. It has been hard for the country to conserve biological resources at both the technical and biosecurity levels in the regions because of inadequate conditions. Burkina Faso is left to export large quantities of these samples to high-income countries with biobanks that have more diagnostic tools and meet international technical standards.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>But that is about to change.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>When COVID-19 spread around the world, it highlighted the importance of the biobank as a tool to prevent future public health emergencies. In February 2022, Burkina Faso initiated the creation of a national biobank using their virtual electronic pathogen registry, a database of biological resources stored in the country’s nine national reference laboratories (tuberculosis, antimicrobial resistance, meningitis, HIV, human papillomavirus, hemorrhagic fever, measles, rotavirus and influenza). But setting up the physical biobank has not been easy. Jhpiego has been supporting Burkina Faso’s National Lab service since 2018 through a project funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This includes training staff, conducting assessments, drafting procedures, monitoring virtual data and purchasing and installing equipment according to standards. In June 2024, Burkina Faso inaugurated a physical biobank structure on a temporary site, with plans to move it to a permanent location once funds are secured.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Successfully setting up a central biobank requires overcoming financial, infrastructural, organizational and documentation difficulties. One of the first requirements is for all academic institutions, research institutes and reference laboratories in the country to establish a centralized inventory system for samples of interest. If resources are limited, electronic pathogen registries, with a focus on supervision and the development of a virtual biobank interface, can replace a physical biobank until a permanent, physical one can be completed.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Biobanks play a crucial role in the development of many health care approaches and treatments. They inform ways to reduce behaviors that put one’s health at risk, ensure universal access to medical coverage and health services, support research and development of vaccines and medicines and improve management of health risks. This underscores the importance of biobanks to global health systems and their lifesaving potential. Their time in Africa is now.\u003Cbr>\u003C/p>\n","\u003Cp>Burkina Faso is building its first national biobank, a vital step toward strengthening global health security, advancing research, and ensuring Africa’s biodiversity contributes to lifesaving medical breakthroughs.\u003C/p>\n","biobanks-global-health-security","https://jhpiego.org/our-stories/p/biobanks-global-health-security/","/our-stories/p/biobanks-global-health-security/","2024-06-12T00:48:00","2025-08-14T18:34:22",{"id":1434,"src":1435,"width":1436,"height":1437,"alt":20,"caption":20,"title":1438,"description":20,"mimeType":23,"html":1439,"srcset":1440,"sizes":1441,"meta":1442,"acf":1481},4140,"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-Burkina-Central-Reference-Laboratory-plus-Biobank_Sketch.jpg",1471,833,"Jhpiego-Blog-Burkina-Central-Reference-Laboratory-plus-Biobank_Sketch","\u003Cimg width=\"1471\" height=\"833\" 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at the World Hepatitis Summit","\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"648\" height=\"494\" src=\"https://jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-World-Hepatitis-Summit-2024-04-23-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3493\" srcset=\"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-World-Hepatitis-Summit-2024-04-23-2024.jpg 648w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-World-Hepatitis-Summit-2024-04-23-2024-300x229.jpg 300w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-World-Hepatitis-Summit-2024-04-23-2024-375x286.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" />\u003C/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Viral hepatitis remains a major public health challenge. According to the WHO, over 300 million people are living with hepatitis B and C globally, and over 1.3 million die each year from the complications of the disease. Despite the availability of tools and solutions to efficiently tackle viral hepatitis, most countries are far from reaching the 2030 goals to eliminate the virus-caused disease due to programmatic, policy and access barriers.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>To stimulate discussions and actions from global stakeholders, share evidence and experiences, and disseminate best practices in the fight against viral hepatitis, the World Hepatitis Alliance, the World Health Organization, and the Government of Portugal hosted a Summit in April 2024 in Lisbon. Over 600 delegates from 95 countries joined in person and virtually, including Jhpiego representatives who shared their work and learnings on efforts to strengthen health services to address Hepatitis C in Nigeria.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Nigeria is one of 10 countries that bears the biggest burden of hepatitis B and C. \u003Ca href=\"https://www.afro.who.int/countries/nigeria/news/nigeria-boosting-viral-hepatitis-awareness-and-treatment-0#:~:text=More%20than%2090%20million%20people,%2C%202018%20(NAIIS%202018).\">Over 20 million people live with hepatitis B, C, or both\u003C/a> in the country but more than 80% of them do not know their status. Research conducted by the Unitaid-funded STAR Phase 3 initiative and presented by Chidinma Umebido, a senior Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning advisor for Jhpiego Nigeria, found that advocacy and awareness, implementation of simplified service delivery models, peer support and stigma reduction, and tailored health services are key components to improving hepatitis B and C health care in the country.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>To strengthen these components and integrate hepatitis B and C screening into existing programs, collaboration with federal and state Ministries of Health and local communities is crucial (such as HIV, key populations and maternal and newborn health) as is expanding access to testing and treatment, specifically Hepatitis C self-testing. The study found that decentralizing Hepatitis C services to primary and secondary levels of care and community-based one-stop-shops for key populations and capacity building for general practitioners led to significant increase in Hepatitis C testing and linkage to Hepatitis C diagnosis and lifesaving treatment.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>Dr. Adetiloye Oniyire is Jhpiego’s Country Director for Nigeria.\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n","\u003Cp>At the World Hepatitis Summit, Jhpiego shared how simplifying services, expanding testing, and reducing stigma are transforming Hepatitis C care in Nigeria, one of the countries hardest hit by the disease.\u003C/p>\n","jhpiego-at-the-world-hepatitis-summit","https://jhpiego.org/our-stories/p/jhpiego-at-the-world-hepatitis-summit/","/our-stories/p/jhpiego-at-the-world-hepatitis-summit/","2024-04-23T01:19:00","2025-08-08T01:22:35",{"id":1496,"src":1497,"width":1498,"height":1499,"alt":20,"caption":20,"title":1500,"description":20,"mimeType":23,"html":1501,"srcset":1502,"sizes":1503,"meta":1504,"acf":1521},3493,"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-World-Hepatitis-Summit-2024-04-23-2024.jpg",648,494,"Jhpiego-Blog-World-Hepatitis-Summit-2024-04-23-2024","\u003Cimg width=\"648\" height=\"494\" src=\"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-World-Hepatitis-Summit-2024-04-23-2024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-World-Hepatitis-Summit-2024-04-23-2024.jpg 648w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-World-Hepatitis-Summit-2024-04-23-2024-300x229.jpg 300w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-World-Hepatitis-Summit-2024-04-23-2024-375x286.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" />","https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-World-Hepatitis-Summit-2024-04-23-2024.jpg 648w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-World-Hepatitis-Summit-2024-04-23-2024-300x229.jpg 300w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-World-Hepatitis-Summit-2024-04-23-2024-375x286.jpg 375w","(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px",{"width":1498,"height":1499,"file":1505,"filesize":1506,"sizes":1507,"imageMeta":1519},"2025/08/Jhpiego-Blog-World-Hepatitis-Summit-2024-04-23-2024.jpg",63737,{"medium":1508,"thumbnail":1512,"smallPreview":1515},{"file":1509,"width":33,"height":1510,"mimeType":23,"filesize":1511},"Jhpiego-Blog-World-Hepatitis-Summit-2024-04-23-2024-300x229.jpg",229,17224,{"file":1513,"width":43,"height":43,"mimeType":23,"filesize":1514},"Jhpiego-Blog-World-Hepatitis-Summit-2024-04-23-2024-150x150.jpg",6930,{"file":1516,"width":67,"height":1517,"mimeType":23,"filesize":1518},"Jhpiego-Blog-World-Hepatitis-Summit-2024-04-23-2024-375x286.jpg",286,25123,{"aperture":86,"credit":20,"camera":20,"caption":20,"createdTimestamp":86,"copyright":20,"focalLength":86,"iso":86,"shutterSpeed":86,"title":20,"orientation":86,"keywords":1520},[],{"primaryColor":1522,"blurhash":1523},"#3b2e43","UCDk[a^0:j~CLMWTWSo#+wj]-VsAIotRXmIo",{"id":1525,"guid":1526,"title":1527,"content":1528,"excerpt":1529,"excerptRaw":1529,"slug":1530,"url":1531,"uri":1532,"to":1532,"status":325,"date":1533,"modified":1534,"type":328,"authorId":545,"featuredMedia":1535},3991,"https://jhpiego.netlify.app/?p=3991","Global Health Security Summit focuses on climate, public health threats","\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jhpiego joins top global health leaders in Pakistan to discuss intersection of security and climate change.\u003C/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>Aleisha Rozario, Jhpiego’s Project Director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded Enhancing Global Health Security project, spoke at the first \u003Ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-floods-climate-summit-67f350288d181a1495e3b92c6d3e347b\">Global Health Security Summit \u003C/a>held in Islamabad, Pakistan, January 10-11. Jhpiego was the only international non-profit development partner invited to speak. Here are excerpts from her speech.\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Climate Change and Public Health Threats: Challenges, Learnings and Opportunities\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Today, I seek to address a matter of global significance that transcends borders and demands our immediate attention—the intersection of climate change and public health. Given the escalating trend in global average temperatures, climate health will increasingly hold greater significance for humanity over time.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https://jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-GHSS-FOcus-image-1-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3992\" style=\"width:600px\" srcset=\"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-GHSS-FOcus-image-1-682x1024.jpg 682w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-GHSS-FOcus-image-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-GHSS-FOcus-image-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-GHSS-FOcus-image-1-360x540.jpg 360w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-GHSS-FOcus-image-1-375x563.jpg 375w, https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Story-GHSS-FOcus-image-1.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" />\u003C/figure>\u003C/div>\n\n\n\u003Cp>Climate change has ushered in a host of environmental changes. The surge in frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and heatwaves, directly impacts public health leading to displacement, injuries, and loss of life. Many of the worst impacts are felt by populations that are already suffering because of multiple health burdens and vulnerabilities combined with poverty and socioeconomic exclusion. These vulnerable populations face compounding challenges in accessing clean water, shelter, and medical care thus propagating the emergence and rapid spread of disease.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The World Health Organization estimates that climate change will cause an additional 250,000 deaths annually between 2030 and 2050. This is a staggering figure.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>The challenges posed by the intersection of climate change and public health are immense indeed, but in facing them, we have also gained valuable insights. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of preparedness, response, resilience, and recovery in the face of health crises, with lessons that are applicable to the broader context of climate change. The interconnectedness of our global community was a crucial lesson. Climate change knows no borders, emphasizing the necessity of collaboration and shared responsibility for the well-being of humanity.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>So how can we start to think about possible actions? The first step is to identify and map vulnerability. Climate health impacts will not affect us all in the same way. We know that vulnerability to climate health-related consequences will be influenced by our geography, our demographics, our biology and health status, the political and social economic status in which we live, as well as the strength of our health systems.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>We have a chance now, in the face of a global threat, to truly reorient health action and service provision around the needs of the most vulnerable. There are opportunities to transform our healthcare systems through sustainable practices, investment in renewable energy, and integration of climate resilience into infrastructure to build a more robust and adaptive healthcare system.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>For example, in Bangladesh, a low-lying country vulnerable to sea level rise, flooding, and cyclones, the government has implemented a number of initiatives to enhance the resilience of its healthcare system. These include the construction of climate-resilient health facilities, the development of early warning systems, the training of health workers and the provision of mobile health services. In Nepal, a mountainous country prone to landslides, avalanches and flooding, the government has also taken steps to improve the climate resilience of its healthcare system. These include the establishment of a climate and health unit, integration of climate change into health policies and plans, and promotion of community-based climate adaptation.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Promoting public awareness and education through risk communication and community engagement will equip communities to adapt to changing environmental conditions, protect against health threats and advocate for policies addressing both climate change and public health.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>In Bhutan, the government has undertaken a sweeping nationwide campaign aimed at educating the public about climate change and its implications for health. In October 2023, the Bhutanese government launched a national climate adaptation plan, which marks a four-year culmination of meticulous planning with various institutions, civil society, local government, academia and the private sector to create a robust, integrated multi-sectoral plan to respond to the impact of climate change.\u003C/p>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cem>The Jhpiego Pakistan team, led by Dr. Sobhan Qadir, Technical Advisor, provided organizational support to the Ministry of Health, the host of the summit. Key leaders from the World Health Organization, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNICEF, World Bank and others attended the two day event.\u003C/em>\u003C/p>\n","\u003Cp>Jhpiego joins top global health leaders in Pakistan to discuss intersection of security and climate change.\u003C/p>\n","global-health-security-summit-focuses-on-climate-public-health-threats","https://jhpiego.org/our-stories/p/global-health-security-summit-focuses-on-climate-public-health-threats/","/our-stories/p/global-health-security-summit-focuses-on-climate-public-health-threats/","2024-01-18T21:53:00","2025-08-20T01:58:11",{"id":1536,"src":1537,"width":1051,"height":1052,"alt":20,"caption":20,"title":1538,"description":20,"mimeType":23,"html":1539,"srcset":1540,"sizes":1056,"meta":1541,"acf":1580},4312,"https://api.jhpiego.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/51868252576_c660ee71d0_k.jpg","JHPIEGO – Pakistan – January 2022","\u003Cimg width=\"2047\" 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