World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Malawi as having eliminated trachoma—a bacterial eye infection that can cause irreversible blindness if untreated—as a public health problem. Malawi becomes the first country in southern Africa and the fifth in Africa to achieve this significant milestone.
Read moreThe health authorities in Uganda today declared an outbreak of Ebola after a case of the relatively rare Ebola Sudan virus was confirmed in Mubende district in the central part of the country.
Read moreIn her small office at University Clinics of Kinshasa, nurse Agnès Bisilwala has her eyes trained on a row of large gas cylinders. “In the past, three or four days could go by without enough medical oxygen for our COVID-19 patients in intensive care,” she says. “Many of them were unable to maintain their oxygenation and succumbed to the virus.”
Read moreThe World Health Organization has conducted a five-day capacity-building training for 22 national health observatory focal points from Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Uganda to generate a series of knowledge produ…
Read moreBrazzaville – With the COVID-19 pandemic delaying meningitis vaccination campaigns for more than 50 million children in Africa, the region is at a heightened risk of outbreaks of meningitis type A, which has nearly…
Read moreRolling out the COVID 19 vaccination campaign across the continent has been a challenging task. So, what happens in a country grappling with humanitarian crisis as well? Ian Van Engelgem, Technical Assistant in the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department’s (ECHO) office in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, discusses EU’s support to the efforts by WHO and partners to deliver the vaccine in 15 African countries facing humanitarian crises.
Read moreAlioune Samb works as a butcher at the bustling Grand Dakar market in the heart of the Senegalese capital. “Before, we weren’t conscious of the potential dangers of our behaviours and the poor sanitation of the market,” he admits.
Read moreAs Africa strives to recover from the deepfelt impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, health authorities and experts gathering this week for the Seventy-second session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa launched a new drive to find ways of revamping the region’s health systems.
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