The EpiC project offers technical assistance to prevent, prepare for, respond to and bolster health systems to address COVID-19. Currently, EpiC is implementing COVID-19 activities in more than 20 countries across Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America.
Dr Selly Ba, Directrice Technique Associée Covid, EpiC SénégalThiarra Diagne, agent technique gestion des connaissances, EpiC Sénégal Version française ci-dessous. English version follows. La pandémie à COVID-19 est responsable de plus de 550 millions d’infections et 6 millions de décès dans le monde depuis le début de 2019. Depuis 2022, l’OMS a recommandé l’utilisation de […]
Audrey Battu, Senior Director, Essential Medicines, Clinton Health Access Initiative Dennis Walusimbi, Program Manager, Clinton Health Access Initiative Namibia Ayush Gupta, Senior Associate, Markets, Clinton Health Access Initiative Hypoxemia, or low blood oxygen, can be a life-threatening condition without access to supplemental medical oxygen for treatment. The prevalence, impact, and management of hypoxemia in Namibia is influenced […]
Since 2002, the Global Fund has invested more than US$60 billion to fight the deadliest infectious diseases on earth: HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria. To protect those programs during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Global Fund created the COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM) in 2020 to fight COVID-19, adapt lifesaving HIV, TB and malaria programs, and reinforce […]
While the worst phases of the COVID-19 pandemic are now years behind us, the people of the Pacific Islands continue to live with the fall-out of the unprecedented global crisis including long COVID.
Côte d’Ivoire suffered from oxygen shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic. To address this gap, the MOH and EpiC recently launched an initiative to expand access to medical oxygen in seven hospitals across the country.
EpiC’s investment in oxygen-producing PSA technology will ensure access to medical oxygen, especially in regions far from Sri Lanka’s centrally located oxygen manufacturing facilities.
In 2022, EpiC Mongolia trained hospital and soum-level (or rural primary) doctors and specialists, along with medical equipment engineers, on the use of ventilators, maintaining oxygen ecosystems, oxygen therapy, and critical care for patients with COVID-19. Read on to hear perspectives from members of the health workforce on the impact of the project in Mongolia.
“Do you remember a year ago, when all we had was a WhatsApp group to ask questions of each other and send pictures of the oxygen purities?” Rodrigo Romero, head of the Paraguay Ministry of Health´s Medical Gas Department offered this poignant reflection during the opening remarks of an event celebrating the launch, training, and validation of the country’s first digital oxygen maintenance tracking system that the Meeting Targets and Maintaining Epidemic Control (EpiC) project hosted in Paraguay in March.
Older, unvaccinated adults are more likely to get severe illness or die from COVID-19. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a heavy toll on older adults in Indonesia—patients over the age of 60 comprise more than half of COVID-related intensive care unit admissions and suffer from the lowest recovery rate and highest mortality rate.1 Evidence shows that being fully vaccinated significantly reduces the risk of COVID-related hospitalization and death and is one of the most powerful tools we have against the pandemic.
Sofía Córdova, Regional Program Manager, PSI Centro AméricaAndrea Surette, Knowledge Management Technical Advisor, FHI 360Emily Headrick, MSN, FNP, Clinical Technical Advisor, FHI 360 Medical oxygen is a vital therapy for treating patients with COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses, surgical and maternity patients, and children with pneumonia. As with any essential medicine, safety is an important […]
