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Stories from across Africa, celebrating ten years of social, psychological and emotional support for children, their families and communities.

The core of Novartis Foundation activities in Mali is the Initiative Accès. The decision to launch this initiative recalls the established history between the Novartis Foundation and the Malian government.

The publication details the contribution of Novartis to achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals.

Digital health, which is the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to provide health services, can advance the goal of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare services worldwide.

The main goals of the MHO in Mali are to improve access & financial protection for the insured and mobilize resources for health services.

The implementation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) strategy launched by the WHO and UNICEF in the mid 1990s’ has improved health workers performance and quality of service with the help of digital health technology.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the most broadly supported, comprehensive, yet specific development goals ever set by the global community.

The article shows that treatment success rates were higher in patients who opted for community DOT than in patients who chose facility-based DOT (all cases).

Ghana faces an increasing burden of non-communicable disease. The article concludes that the low hypertension treatment and control rates may suggest that such programs are not necessarily impactful on the health of the population.

The overall aim of the leprosy post-exposure prophylaxis (LPEP) program was to evaluate the feasibility and efficiency of contact tracing and the provision of preventative treatment for leprosy under routine conditions in eight countries.

The Novartis Foundation and partners are working to transform health systems from being reactive, to proactive, predictive and preventative.