Category: Cote D’Ivoire

The Joint External Evaluation (JEE) Process: Assessing health security in Côte d’Ivoire

Serigne Ndiaye, CDC GHSA Program Director for Cote d'Ivoire, center, meets with community leaders

Conducting a JEE Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is a small country in West Africa, neighboring Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. It has a population of over 25 million people, about half of whom live in urban centers across the country. Diseases of great concern for the country include yellow fever, cholera, meningitis, measles, Read More >

July 5, 2019 by Serigne Ndiaye, CDC GHSA Program Director

Côte d'Ivoire, GHSA, Global health security agenda, Ivory Coast, JEE, Joint External Evaluation

Cote D'Ivoire, GHSA, Global health security agenda, Ivory Coast, JEE, Joint External Evaluation, Ministry of Health

President Obama’s Call to Accelerate Battle Against Malaria Builds on Impressive Gains

A home in Zambia using a bed net to prevent mosquito bites and therefore prevent malaria transmission. Bed nets have been shown to reduce malaria illness, severe disease, and death due to malaria in regions where the disease persists.

Malaria is a public health issue that has always been one of our highest priorities. Tweet This President Obama’s call to arms to end malaria worldwide as announced during his recent State of the Union address and the Administration’s request to increase resources for malaria control, underscore the remarkable progress made in the fight against Read More >

February 23, 2016 by Laurence Slutsker, MD, MPH, Director of CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria

Archive, infectious disease, malaria, parasitic diseases

Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote D'Ivoire, mosquito nets, PMI, President's Malaria Initiative, Sierra Leone, West Africa