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Aggrey Aluso, Executive Director at RANA, said Sovereignty over health security, in his view, cannot just be language in a communiqué. It has to show up as budget lines, functioning regional institutions, and laboratories that can sequence a novel pathogen without waiting weeks for outside help.
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Farmers in Got Simba, Siaya County, have embarked on planting indigenous seeds as they believe them to be resilient in adverse and ever-changing climatic conditions.
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Anthony Ombara, a senior advisor at the Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), told Willow Health Media that PABS is urgent because pathogens move faster than negotiations.
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“I think one of our biggest opportunities as Africa,” says Aggrey Aluso, the executive director of Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), “is the fact that we have important information that can help build the global health security ecosystem.”
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"We're seeing communities come together to share traditional knowledge, support one another and intentionally pass resilience skills from one generation to another"
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Community vigilance, backed by strong public health systems, stops isolated infections from becoming national emergencies.
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“These agreements risk entrenching unequal power dynamics and compromising sovereignty,” said Aggrey Aluso, Executive Director of the Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA).
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"Kenya may have been spared so far, but luck is a fragile shield when surveillance is weak, communities are uninformed, and protocols are invisible. Ebola teaches us that epidemics do not arrive when systems are ready; they arrive to reveal whether systems were ever ready at all."
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"The deadlock in Geneva is not just about pathogens; it is a clash of vested interests and "health politics" Aggrey Aluso, Executive Director, Resilience Action Network Africa.
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Aggrey Aluso, Executive Director of Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), urged African nations to claim their health sovereignty rather than waiting for donor-driven mercy.
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Aggrey Aluso, Executive Director of Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), said the negotiations reflect broader geopolitical and commercial interests shaping global health governance.
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The Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), an advocacy organization that addresses health and climate issues in Africa, recommended that the government take control of early alert systems while encouraging communities to focus on local risk assessment and solutions.
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Executive Director of Resilience Action Network Africa, Aggrey Aluso, cautioned that failure to address funding and surveillance gaps puts vulnerable communities, especially those in marginalised areas, at heightened risk of preventable loss of life.
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Speaking at the meeting, Aggrey Aluso, Executive Director of Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), emphasised the need for African governments to take full ownership of epidemic preparedness through sustainable financing and community-driven approaches.
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Pandemic Agreement delayed as Africa rejects data exploitation
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Speaking during the declaration, Resilience Action Network Africa Executive Director Aggrey Aluso said the declaration reflects a shared commitment to building stronger systems for disease resilience, early detection and response.
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“Delayed responses such as the one seen during recent outbreaks such as Ebola and COVID-19, have shown how quickly health crises can cascade into economic ones,” Aluso said adding that “Disease surveillance is a public good.”
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Aggrey Aluso, executive director of Resilience Action Network Africa,. said that we have one shot at it, adding that the pandemic agreement carried real gains, but it cannot be operationalized until the PABS annex is concluded.
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Data sharing is important for countries with a high presence of pharmaceuticals because it is the foundation of the ingredients for manufacturing pharmaceutical products, says Aggrey Aluso, the executive director of Resilience Action Network Africa.
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Aggrey Aluso, executive director of Resilience Action Network Africa, “African delegations must continue pressing for a robust framework grounded in equity and legal certainty—one that ensures predictable and meaningful benefits for countries that contribute pathogen data and materials,”
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With a few days of scheduled negotiations remaining for countries to agree on a system that will ensure rapid sharing of pandemic vaccines and therapeutics under the WHO Pandemic Treaty, African civil society organizations are urging negotiators to “seize this moment.”
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The article features Aggrey Aluso, Director for the Africa Region at Resilience Action Network International (RANI) and Executive Director of Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), discussing the PABS negotiations and the future of multilateralism.
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Aggrey Aluso, executive director of the Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), said the world needs a legally binding PABS agreement and the highest level of political accountability.
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More than 50 Kenyans have died, and over 2,600 families displaced from their homes following recent heavy rains that have destroyed property and cut off roads across several areas
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Aggrey Aluso, Executive Director of the Resilience Action Network of Africa (RANA) said African leaders are also playing a part in derailing the progress that will benefit their citizens.
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RANA executive director Aggrey Aluso said, “With scientific predictive models available, governments should anticipate and prepare for such eventualities. Failure to do so shifts the burden to those least able to respond” .
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Aggrey Aluso, Executive Director, Resilience Action Network Africa, tells Nation that weather events carry both direct and indirect impacts that can cripple healthcare systems.
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Aggrey Aluso, executive director of the Resilience Action Network Africa, said pathogen specimens are among the most valuable resources in the pharmaceutical ecosystem and that their use should benefit originating countries.
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According to Mr Aggrey Aluso, the Executive Director of Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), some signs of climate change are already visible in communities, with impacts stretching beyond the environment to health.
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Aggrey Aluso, executive director at Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), said the continent is among the most vulnerable to climate impacts, including heatwaves, prolonged droughts and heavy rainfall that can create ideal conditions for disease outbreaks.
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“We need political action now,” said Aminata Wurie, project manager at Resilience Action Network Africa (RANA), noting that health is not at the forefront of many national budgets.
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"As health systems and the international community again face the challenge of managing emerging infectious diseases, countries continue to ignore lessons learned from the COVID-19 response".
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Aggrey Aluso, the Director of the Africa Region Pandemic Action Network, noted that human activities such as urbanization and food systems have increased the frequency of outbreaks in Africa.
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“This journey started a long time ago,” RANA executive director Aggrey Aluso told Health Policy Watch, explaining that the voices of the global South and concerns of low- and middle-income countries do not sufficiently inform global policies.
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"World leaders are converging for the Africa Climate Summit, hosted in Kenya from September 4 to 6, at a time when climate change has become one of the most
Read Full Article: African leaders must unite on climate change and health investmentThe Lancet
“We're at an exciting moment in the fight for better pandemic prevention and preparedness, but it's also a moment of jeopardy”, says Eloise Todd, co-founder and Executive Director of the Pandemic Action Network, an international network of more than 350 diverse organisations.
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"South Africa's Afrigen Biologics has an innovative partnership with Belgian group, Univercells, which is paving the way for the development of the first African-owned mRNA COVID-19 vaccine".
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"As we witness the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on black, brown, and Indigenous bodies, donors need an enduring focus on racism as a public health crisis in its own right".
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