CEPSA Newsletter (December 2025) Welcome to CEPSA’s Community of Practice (CoP)! The CoP is a network of excellence between and by PV experts in Africa. FIND OUT MORE Health and Harmony Take Centre Stage at KESS Research Day 2025 Theme: Health and Harmony: Ecosystems, Equity and Evidence for Sustainable Well-being FIND OUT MORE CEPSA’s first pharmacovigilance training workshop The Centre of Excellence for Pharmacovigilance in Southern Africa (CEPSA) marked a major milestone with its first pharmacovigilance workshop in November 2025, bringing together experts from across Africa to strengthen PV capacity through immersive, hands-on training
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Strengthening pharmacovigilance capacities in Southern African countries – current practices, challenges and proposed strategies At the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (APSSA) 2025 Conference, Lagoon Beach, Cape Town, South Africa, I had the opportunity to deliver a podium presentation on strengthening pharmacovigilance capacities in Southern African countries. FIND OUT MORE
19 November 2025

Co-creating gender-transformative interventions for adolescent mental, sexual, and reproductive health and rights: Influence of context and actors on process and content in Niger, Ghana, and Burkina Faso

By: Lauren J. Wallace, Natasha A. Darko, Aissa Diarra, Maurice Yaogo, Bernice Gyawu, Priscilla Prempeh, Emelia A. Agblevor, Ann-Michelle Darko, Tolib Mirzoev, Irene A. Agyepong
19 November 2025

What does it take to operationalise gender transformative approaches across different African contexts?

By: Woldekidan Amde, Gabriel Ananya, Kéfilath Bello, Nkoli Ezumah, Asha S. George, Amani Hachimou, Tanya Jacobs, Mat Lowe, Chinyere Mbachu, Vuyolwethu Mjijelwa, Abdoul M Nouhou, Ramatou Ouedraogo, Sundari T.K. Ravindran, Nathalie Sawadogo, Nichola Schaay, Lauren Wallace
16 October 2025

Strengthening pharmacovigilance capacities in Southern African countries – current practices, challenges and proposed strategies

At the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences (APSSA) 2025 Conference, Lagoon Beach, Cape Town, South Africa, I had the opportunity to deliver a podium presentation on strengthening pharmacovigilance capacities in Southern African countries.
10 October 2025

The School of Public Health-UWC, NACOSA, Hope Africa and Triangle Project launch a glossary of gender and sexuality terms in three South African languages

On Tuesday, 23 February, the School of Public Health, NACOSA, Hope Africa, and Triangle Project, together with representatives from civil society and government departments working on sexual and reproductive health (SRH), gathered at Bertha House to celebrate the launch of a new South Africa gender glossary.
19 September 2025

A local gender glossary: some key gender and sexuality terms decoded

As part of a three year collaborative research project (the “Learning Partnerships to Support Gender Transformative Innovations for Adolescents’ Sexual and Reproductive Health in South Africa”) the School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, NACOSA and H.O.P.E Africa, in partnership with the Triangle Project, has developed a local gender glossary.