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WHO supports Uganda to conduct first Mass Gathering After Action Review for the 2024 Namugongo Martyrs’ Day pilgrimage

WHO supports Uganda to conduct first Mass Gathering After Action Review for the 2024 Namugongo Martyrs’ Day pilgrimage

Polio surveillance strengthened in Sierra Leone

To enhance Sierra Leone's polio surveillance capacity, a team of Environmental Surveillance (ES) experts from WHO Regional Office for Africa visited t

Participants role-playing the referral pathway.

Empowering Frontline Health Workers to Address GBV In Namibia

In Namibia, nearly 35% of women are subjected to intimate partner violence and/or sexual violence.

Launch of the UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water

Uganda's Ministry of Health Launches GLAAS 2024/25 Country Survey

Strengthening vaccine programs and outbreak responses

Laboratory experts at the workshop

Botswana Develops National Policy on Biological Resources and Benefit-Sharing

Botswana has taken a significant step toward strengthening the governance of biological resources with the development of its National Policy on Acces

Ensuring primary health services for displaced people

South Sudan: Ensuring primary health services for displaced people

Juba ‒ Cecilia Achuwor, a 38-year-old mother of six children, is one of the hundreds of thousands of refugees and returnees who have crossed the border into Sou

African health ministers, partners urge equitable access to critical tools to curb cervical cancer threat

African health ministers, partners urge equitable access to critical tools to curb cervical cancer threat

Inequitable access to vaccines and high-performance screening tools is hampering efforts to effectively reduce the growing burden of cervical cancer in the African region, which accounts for the highest rates of new cases and deaths due to the disease.