Angola News

Lélia Bartolomeu, aged 12, witnessed firsthand the suffering of her grandmother, a cervical cancer survivor. “If the vaccine had been available in my time, I wouldn’t be going through this,” her grandmother told her as she battled the disease. This sentence marked Lélia’s life and reinforced her desire to contribute to change.

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Carter Center have signed a new cooperation agreement, worth US$300,000, which guarantees the continuity of activities to fight Guinea worm disease in the province of Cunene. The agreement reinforces the commitment of both organizations to support Angola in eliminating this Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD), which is targeted for global eradication by 2030. 

Sustainable health financing is crucial to achieving key goals such as Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For countries to make consistent progress in implementing this agenda, it is essential to understand clearly and systematically how resources flow within the health system.

Access to safe, effective, and quality medicines and health technologies is one of the fundamental pillars for ensuring public health and achieving Universal Health Coverage. In Angola, this goal is being achieved through a structured process of institutional strengthening, led by the Regulatory Agency for Medicines and Health Technologies (ARMED) with ongoing technical support from the World Health Organization (WHO), co-financed by the European Union.

When she was just 9 years old, Rossana Francisco lost her mother, a nurse by profession. It was a painful moment that changed her life forever. That day, she promised to follow in her mother’s footsteps and dedicate her life to caring for others.

In a gesture of solidarity and commitment to protecting the population in the face of the cholera emergency, Banco de Fomento Angola (BFA) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) today formalised a strategic partnership to support the national response to the outbreak affecting thousands of families in Angola.

Surrounded by the wide Kwanza River, the municipality of Calumbo is known for the resilience and hard-working spirit of its people. Between August 15 and 17, the municipality joined the rest of the country in the First Round of the National Polio Vaccination Campaign, a large-scale operation that mobilized 1,000 health workers to administer 1.5 million doses of vaccine to 100,000 children. 

Angola has taken a strategic step toward strengthening public health communication by holding a national training session dedicated to the role of the media in responding to health emergencies.