Africa & Middle East

To reinforce continental coordination, Africa CDC has convened an Extraordinary Meeting of African Ministers of Health for 28 October 2026.

The initiative builds on two years of collaboration following a memorandum of understanding signed by DoH and Novartis on 5 June 2024.

Under the partnership, Schneider Electric will provide PureHealth with access to its EcoStruxure Resource Advisor platform and establish a framework for developing sustainable infrastructure strategies across its facilities.

Organised by the UAE–UK Business Council with support from Haleon, the UK–UAE Collaboration in Wellbeing & Longevity Summit brought together representatives from government, regulatory agencies, insurance, healthcare and life sciences.

The proposed collaboration covers precision nutrition, longevity and healthy ageing, supportive oncology programmes, clinician education and research.

The launch aligns with Qatar’s healthcare transformation agenda under Qatar National Vision 2030 and the National Health Strategy 2024–2030, known as Health for All.

The initiative, running throughout Breast Cancer Awareness Month, awards one free mammogram screening for every 10,000 steps recorded through the myAster app.

The procedure involves inserting a replacement valve through a catheter, usually via a blood vessel, to treat a narrowed aortic valve that restricts blood flow from the heart.

The collaboration will assess MILTON, AstraZeneca’s AI-powered disease prediction platform, for use in UAE populations, focusing initially on type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Ustekinumab is a monoclonal antibody used to treat certain immune-mediated inflammatory conditions, including plaque psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.