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FOJEMM Consulting is based in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. In addition to its worldwide networks and partnerships with competent individuals and renowned international corporate consultants, FOJEMM Consulting has its own representatives in North America (USA) and Africa (Senegal, The Gambia and DRC).
FOJEMM provides research, programme/project management, strategy development and reviews, organisational development, accounting and financial management, monitoring and evaluation support and services to the public and private sectors in areas including but not limited to education, MDGs, healthcare and health services, environment, human resources development, information technology, gender and development, agriculture and animal husbandry, travel and tourism, transportation, procurement and logistics, energy, capacity building and community development. We have significant strength in the areas of health technology assessment, health economics and outcome research, and cost-effectiveness of health and healthcare interventions. FOJEMM also has specialists with expertise on countries such as Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Cape Verde, Guinea Conakry, Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia and Sierra Leone for your expert opinion/witness services. FOJEMM is extremely proud of its network of individuals and organisations that have expertise on other frican countries as well as other countries throughout the world.
At FOJEMM Consulting we provide our clients with tailored services. Our specialists and lead consultants ensure clients receive the intelligence necessary for service improvement and development and the required clear, technical and in-depth reports for their cases. Fojemm's services are intended to strengthen decision making at all levels.
The various specialists and consultants in FOJEMM have an extensive wealth of experience having previously worked with various governments as well as the private sector, NGOs and international organisations. All the specialist and consultants are qualified to degree levels in many fields of specialisations. FOJEMM's specialists and consultants have carried out assignments and consultancies for governments, private sector institutions and international organisations including the United Nations Development Programme.
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CPiF Holiday Gift Guide: XMAS Bazaar Edition!
Looking for the perfect gift? We've got you covered. In case you missed our XMAS Bazaar earlier this month, here is a look at the work by the thirteen participating designers and artisans and information about how to pick up your favorite pieces in time for the holidays.
Thank you to Olga Makarova for the beautiful photos!


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U.S. Hits 2 Million Coronavirus Cases As Many States See A Surge Of Patients
Bill Chappell, Rob Stein Jun. 10, 2020
Visitors to the River Walk pass a restaurant that reopened in San Antonio last last month. Like other states, Texas continues to reopen despite the persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo by Eric Gay - AP
The U.S. has reached another dire landmark in its fight against COVID-19, surpassing 2 million confirmed cases on Wednesday. New coronavirus infections are rising in at least 20 states, even as restrictions on daily life continue to ease across the country.
As of Thursday morning, more than 112,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. — the most fatalities reported by any nation, according to a tracker from Johns Hopkins University. And most experts believe those numbers underestimate the true toll.
The latest data also reflects the difficulty of quashing the coronavirus. While some early hot spots such as New York state have seen a sustained drop in new cases, COVID-19 hospitalizations have swelled recently in places like Texas, Arizona, Arkansas and California.
Texas set new records for COVID-19 hospitalizations on three consecutive days this week, with a total of 2,153 hospitalized patients on Wednesday. The state was among the first to start the reopening process, and Gov. Greg Abbott is moving forward with plans to raise occupancy limits for bars, restaurants, amusement parks and other businesses.
Florida is seeing its own new surge, with more people testing positive for the coronavirus on Saturday than on any day in the past two months. Since June 2, the state has reported more than 1,000 new cases every day, even as the number of COVID-19 deaths has dropped to double digits.
Arizona has reported an average of more than 1,000 new cases every day this week — the highest per capita rate in the U.S. Underscoring the crisis, the health department said Tuesday that only a quarter of the state's beds in intensive care units are currently available.
Public health experts say these surges should not be dismissed as a result of more testing.
"It's very clear that it's a real increase in community spread," Will Humble, executive director of the Arizona Public Health Association, tells member station KJZZ in Phoenix. "It's not some artifact of additional testing."
Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, says that nationwide, "we're identifying between 20,000 and 25,000 new cases a day, and about 800 to 1,000 people a day are dying of this virus."
The national numbers remain stubbornly high. Often, when one state gains a measure of control over COVID-19, another seems to report a new spike.
Maryland, for instance, hasn't reported more than 1,000 daily cases on average in at least three weeks. But North Carolina is now averaging more than 1,000 cases daily — well above its daily average of 517 just three weeks ago.
Even in states with smaller overall numbers of cases, such as Oregon, South Carolina and Alaska, the rate of new infections has risen by more than 100% in the past two weeks. That is driving concern that the loosening of virus controls is driving the new surge.
All 50 U.S. states had begun easing their restrictions as of last month. By early June, only a few states still had stay-at-home orders in place. And Americans have eagerly returned to some of their old routines — a development backed by cellphone data.
The data suggest people in the U.S. are moving around at a level that's up to about two-thirds of what it was before shutdown rules were implemented. This supports the idea that the new increases are real, not just a result of more testing. Since late May, thousands of people have left their homes to go back to work, to shop, to socialize and to visit bars and restaurants. And that's how the virus can spread.
As states continue to loosen limits, health experts are urging people not to become complacent — to follow habits that help to slow the coronavirus, such as washing hands, maintaining a physical distance of at least 6 feet from others, and wearing a face mask when in close contact.
"It seems that we, the U.S., has given up and accepted this disease as a facet of life," says Jeffrey Shaman of the Columbia University School of Public Health. "It didn't have to be this way, and it still doesn't going forward."
The national tally of 2 million cases includes nearly 525,000 people who have recovered from the disease. But the U.S. total represents more than 25% of the world's cases — an outsize impact on a country with less than 5% of the world's population.
It's a drastic change from March, when 90% of the world's COVID-19 cases were reported in just four countries: China, Italy, Iran and South Korea.
Since then, the pandemic has hit the U.S. hard. And with states now pushing to return to normal, public health experts are concerned.
"I'm definitely worried," says Dr. Bill Miller the senior associate dean for research at Ohio State University's college of public health. "As places have been opening up, many people are taking it as a message that everything is OK and back to normal."
He adds: "I'm definitely worried that we're going to see some upswings, maybe not everywhere, but in many places across the country."
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