Division of Health Systems and Services Development (DSD)

Blood Safety Programme
Lack of policy and regulation, inadequate organisation of blood transfusion services, shortage of funds and inadequate qualified personnel make it difficult to access safe blood in most of the Member States of the WHO African Region. More

Clinical Laboratory Technologies
Provision of quality of health care in the WHO African Region is being hampered by inadequate development of appropriate clinical and laboratory Technologies. More

District Health Systems
Mission: To promote the establishment and the functioning of sustainable district health systems and primary health care services in both urban and rural areas. More

Essential Drug Programme
Mission: To collaborate with Member States in the development and implementation of national drug policies and programmes, which ensure equity of access to and rational use of affordable essential drugs of established quality. More

Health Financing and Social Protection
The mission of HFS is to provide evidence-based technical support to countries in the development and implementation of equitable and comprehensive health financing policies and strategic plans that incorporate equitable and efficient mechanisms for collecting funds from various sources, pooling them to share financial risks across larger population groups, and using them to pay for services from public and private health-care providers. It will entail evolving a culture for using health economics principles and evidence in policy-making, planning, choice of interventions, equitable resource allocation and efficient use to maximize health benefits. More

Health Information Systems
WHO has the responsibility to collaborate with Member States in the generation and the use of appropriate health information to support decision making, health care delivery and management of health services, at the national and sub-national levels. More

Health Systems Research
The Health Systems Research (HSR) Program started as a Joint Project of the WHO and the Dutch Ministry of Cooperation (DGIS) in 1987 involving 5 Southern African countries. More

Human Resources for Health Systems Development
The development of human resources for health depends on a number of factors, some of which relate to the overall national situation while others relate to the health sector. More

National Health Systems
National Health systems is one of AFRO priority programmes mainly focussing on Health Systems Reforms. More

Traditional Medicine Programme
The Regional Programme on Traditional Medicine has the responsibility to collaborate with Member States to promote the rational use of traditional medicine within sustainable health care delivery systems, bearing in mind specific socio-cultural environments. More

MAJOR EVENTS

International Conference on Primary Health Care and Health Systems in Africa: Towards the Achievement of the Health Millennium Development Goals.
28-30 April, 2008, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

WHAT'S NEW

World Health Survey Burkina Faso

Status of Blood Safety in the WHO African Region: Report of the 2004 Survey

Launch of the African Health Workforce Observatory