diplomacy&development

    L’émission télévisée « Notre Afrique » sera diffusée tous les samedis à 17 h et rediffusée tous les jeudis à 6 h 30 sur KTN Kenya.     La Fondation Merck ( www.Merck-Foundation.com ), la branche philanthropique de Merck KGaA Allemagne, a souligné son engagement à long terme pour informer, éduquer et sensibiliser sur les questions sociales et sanitaires sensibles à travers le programme télévisé « Notre Afrique » lors de leur réunion de haut niveau avec M. Joe Munene, PDG et Directeur Exécutif du Standard Group, et son équipe. La discussion a été menée par le Prof. Dr. Frank Stangenberg Haverkamp, Président du Conseil d'Administration de la Fondation Merck et la Sénatrice, Dr. Rasha Kelej, CEO de la Fondation Merck. Sénatrice, Dr. Rasha Kelej, CEO de la Fondation Merck a souligné : « Je suis ravie de rencontrer M. Joe Munene, CEO de Standard Group, notre partenaire de longue date, pour discuter de l'impact de notre tout premier programme télévisé « Notre Afriqu...

Visitors can explore the tactile benefits of elevated print as part of a number of corporate social responsibility initiatives, as well as real-world examples of retail environments. At drupa 2024, as part of its campaign ‘The Power to Move', Canon ( www.Canon-CNA.co m) is showcasing the possibilities of elevated printing through the World Unseen exhibition, demonstrating its emotional impact and how imaging experiences and print, can enrich lives and businesses. Across its stand (in Hall 8a), visitors can explore the tactile benefits of elevated print as part of a number of corporate social responsibility initiatives, as well as real-world examples of retail environments. Within ‘The Core’, a dedicated immersive, multisensory space at the centre of the stand, Canon is demonstrating how print has the power to engage through emotion and to drive business transformation through collaboration. A central feature in The Core is an adaptation of the recent ‘World Unseen’ campaign created...

New playbook summarizes lessons from hundreds of health care workers and millions of patients on how to build a digital tool that saves time and lives.   A new playbook released by Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL) compiles lessons learned from five years of health care workers using the Simple app to improve blood pressure control in patients in low-resource settings.  An effective digital information system can mean the difference between a long-term health program that fails and one that saves millions of lives, especially in busy primary care facilities that manage thousands of patients who need lifelong treatment for conditions like high blood pressure. “Designing an optimal digital tool for hypertension and other long-term care programs” offers step-by-step guidance for creating effective digital tools that health care workers like and use consistently, and that deliver information that can drive program improvement and scale.  Over the past 6 years, Resolve to Save Live...

The new purpose-built hospital ship will expand the impact of Mercy Ships’ life-changing surgeries, anaesthetic care and surgical education for future generations of patients and healthcare professionals in sub-Saharan Africa. A groundbreaking agreement between MSC Group, MSC Foundation and the charity Mercy Ships ( https://MercyShips.org ) International prepares for the construction of a brand-new hospital ship that will deliver free surgery and training annually to thousands of people in Africa. On 8 April, the chairman of MSC Group and MSC Foundation, Capt. Gianluigi Aponte, Diego Aponte, MSC Group President and Member of the MSC Foundation Board, and Mercy Ships Founder Don Stephens finalised an agreement to kickstart this new project with a generous anchor donation from MSC Foundation, reflecting the visionary leaders’ commitment to supporting access to critical healthcare for the generations to come. “I spent part of my childhood and early years in the shipping industry in the Ho...

Le nouveau navire, construit spécialement pour être un hôpital, permettra à Mercy Ships d'élargir encore l'impact de ses interventions chirurgicales, des soins anesthésiques et de l'enseignement de la chirurgie, sur des générations futures de patients et de professionnels de la santé en Afrique sub-saharienne. Un accord inédit entre le Groupe MSC, la Fondation MSC et l'organisation humanitaire internationale Mercy Ships ( https://MercyShips.org ) annonce la construction d'un tout nouveau navire-hôpital qui offrira chaque année des interventions chirurgicales et des formations gratuites à des milliers de personnes en Afrique. Le 8 avril, Capitaine Gianluigi Aponte, Chairman du Groupe MSC et de la Fondation MSC, Diego Aponte, président du Groupe MSC et membre du conseil d'administration de la Fondation MSC, et Don Stephens, fondateur de Mercy Ships, Don Stephens, ont finalisé un accord permettant de donner le coup d'envoi à ce nouveau projet grâce à une donati...

    Merck Foundation and African First Ladies mark World Health Day 2024 by providing 1740 scholarships to doctors from 52 countries in 44 specialties: Transforming patient care in Africa and beyond.   • Merck Foundation and African First Ladies together mark ‘World Health Day’ 2024 in a mission to transform patient care via providing more than 1740 scholarships to doctors from 52 countries in 44 critical and under-served medical specialties. Merck Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany marks “World Health Day” 2024 together with Africa’s First Ladies who are also Ambassadors of Merck Foundation “More Than a Mother” Campaign through their Scholarship and Capacity Building Program. Senator, Dr. Rasha Kelej, CEO of Merck Foundation emphasized, “At Merck Foundation, we mark World Health Day every single day of the year over the past 12 years, by building healthcare capacity and transforming patient care across Africa, Asia and beyond. I am proud ...