Category: Burkina Faso
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REACH Network and ITI launch new Advisory Panel to strengthen azithromycin stewardship for child survival
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Atlanta, USA, & Bamako, Mali – 12 August 2025 The REACH Network and the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) are pleased to announce the launch of the Advisory Panel on Azithromycin for Child Survival (APACS), a new independent body established to provide expert guidance on the responsible and effective use of azithromycin to help reduce child…
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“Greater impact and trust, reduced costs”: making the case for REACH integration at the Maputo Child Survival Forum
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As global health leaders gathered in Maputo, Mozambique, for the 2025 Innovation and Action for Immunization and Child Survival Forum, the REACH Network delivered a key message: We must integrate and cooperate – do more, differently – in order to give children in the most vulnerable settings a fair chance to survive and thrive. Dr…
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REACH Network Co-chairs’ impassioned plea for greater health access and equity
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At the heart of Africa’s healthcare transformation, two prominent leaders are working hard to bring child survival to the forefront of the discussion. Professor Muhammad Ali Pate, Nigeria’s Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, and Professor Samba Sow, Director-General of the Center for Vaccine Development in Mali, are Co-chairs of the Resiliency through Azithromycin…
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REACH Network annual meeting leads to historic Abuja Declaration
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African leaders and global health partners commit to saving children’s lives in Africa The Co-chairs of the Resiliency through Azithromycin for Children (REACH) Network, Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare of Nigeria, Muhammad Ali Pate and Professor Samba Sow, former Minister of Health of Mali, today formally signed the Abuja Declaration on REACH for…
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Two new REACH papers published
The REACH Burkina Faso team have recently seen two research papers published, in PLOS Medicine and the New England Journal of Medicine, respectively. You can read the results of their research below. “Single-dose azithromycin for infant growth in Burkina Faso: Prespecified secondary anthropometric outcomes from a randomized controlled trial” PLOS Medicine Published: 23 January 2024…