AGP Executive Report
Last update: 10 hours agoMalaria/HIV testing safety: Mozambique’s ANARME has suspended the sale and use of Meril Diagnostics RDTs for malaria, HIV and HIV/syphilis, plus the HIVFIND home self-test, after WHO and NIH flagged critical quality-management failures that could lead to wrong results. Migration & health rights: South Africa’s Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration says it will keep offering humanitarian support to vulnerable foreign nationals while rejecting xenophobia and vigilantism, stressing repatriation and enforcement are state responsibilities. Reproductive health funding shock: Reports say new US anti-abortion funding restrictions could reshape reproductive healthcare across sub-Saharan Africa, where unsafe abortion and maternal deaths are already high. Air pollution monitoring: AI-backed, low-cost sensing projects like AirQo are expanding across African countries (including Mozambique) to improve real-time pollution data and guide public health action. Suicide hotspot: WHO data places Mozambique among Southern Africa’s highest suicide-rate countries, underscoring urgent mental health support needs.
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