AfriSMC was established by ScienceAfrica and Partners in September 2020 in Nairobi, Kenya, to improve the credibility of media reporting of emerging scientific issues, such as the Coronavirus pandemic.
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Join us this Friday 26 February 🗓️ to learn about the #TRIPSwaiver proposal for #COVID19 tools and its critical implications for Africa.
With speakers from the Permanent Mission of South Africa, @MSF_access, @AfricaCDC & @cehurduganda.
Register ➡️ https://bit.ly/3utIN5C
MSF/@DNDi
#Topic: MSF/DNDi Webinar: #TRIPS waiver for #COVID19 Tools – what are the #implications for #Africa?
#Time:
Feb 26, 2021 02:00 PM in Nairobi
#Webinar ID 986 4839 8952
To #Join the Webinar
Please click this URL
https://bit.ly/3aM5vxO
Calling all leishmaniacs! Feb 24th: #leishmaniasis session as part of our annual #ISNTDd3. Tune in for the whole event or for this session, with @DNDi, @UNIMORE_univ @dchialvo @CONICETDialoga
👉"Focus: leishmaniasis", ISNTD d³ 2021, 15:00-16.30 UTC
👉https://www.isntd.org/isntd-d3
About Africa Science Media Centre
AfriSMC was established by ScienceAfrica and Partners in September 2020 in Nairobi, Kenya, through a small grant from Cornell Alliance for Science principally to work with journalists and scientists on the continent to improve the credibility of media reporting of emerging scientific issues, such as the Coronavirus pandemic.
The first Science Media Centre (SMC) was established in the UK in 2002 after a frenzied and inaccurate media reporting on Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccinations and autism, GM crops and growing public mistrust of science.
As a result, other new SMCs have been established Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, USA and Malaysia.
Funding
Designed to be an independent press society, the AfriSMC’s funding model is not linked to any specific institution or institutional agenda. Read more