WFP Eswatini Country Brief, December 2020
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US$ 4.9 million cash-based transfers made between January and December 2020
US$ 4.5 million six-month (January 2020-June 2021) net funding requirements
182,311 people assisted in December 2020
Operational Updates
• WFP provides social safety nets for 55,000 orphans and vulnerable children under 5 years at the 1,700 Neighbourhood Care Points (NCPs) in Eswatini through access to food and basic social services.
• WFP works with the Government in implementing a sustainable, nutrition-sensitive, shock-responsive national school meals programme. The Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) project started in September 2019, targeting 50 schools and 24,392 students. WFP works with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to empower local smallholder farmers to provide schoolchildren with food that is safe, diverse, nutritious and local.
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The Communicable Diseases and Environmental Determinants of Health Department (CDE) promotes, coordinates, and implements technical cooperation activities directed toward the surveillance, prevention, control, elimination and/or reduction of communicable diseases, zoonosis and environmental threats to health that are technically sound and appropriate for the political and sociocultural context in which they are implemented. It strives to achieve a sustainable impact on health by providing normative guidance, furthering the implementation of evidence-based interventions, fostering alliances that strengthen country capacity, improving the effectiveness of inter-country collaboration, and facilitating policy and decision-making processes.
Research Article
Estimating HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis need and impact in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia: A geospatial and risk-based analysis
Dominik Stelzle, Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Center for Global Health, Department of Neurology, Technical University, Munich, Germany, Chair of Epidemiology, Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, Technical University, Munich, Germany Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Strategic Information Department, UNAIDS, Geneva, Switzerland, Clinical Research Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom ⨯
Chuan Jia,
Affiliation Global HIV, Hepatitis and STIs Programmes, World Health Organization,
World Aids Day is marked on 1st December every year to raise awareness about the disease. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAids) is the UN entity tasked with fighting HIV infections, discrimination and Aids-related deaths.
Africa Renewal’s Zipporah Musau spoke with the executive director of UNAids, Winnie Byanyima, about the organisation’s priorities and its response to Covid-19 in Africa: Here are the excerpts:
Winnie Byanyima, UNAids executive director (left)
How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected those living with HIV in Africa?
Winnie Byanyima: There is evidence that the Aids-related death toll could double in Sub-Saharan Africa from 2020 to 2021 if HIV services are severely disrupted – this would mean an additional 500,000 Aids-related deaths. But not only that, new infections among children through mother-to-child transmission could increase by even more than 100% in some countries in Africa. We could see the progress made in fighting Aids reversed by