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For four months Stella Fikiri underwent a variety of tests at several private health care institutions, before finally being diagnosed with diabetes at the Magomeni Public Health Facility in Kinondoni, a district in Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam.

When Jean Paul Nduwumwe decided to have a hepatitis test while accompanying his pregnant wife on a clinic visit, he had no idea that following a positive result and three months of treatment his health and well-being would be restored, and he would feel “reborn”.

WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, presented her annual report on the work of WHO in the African Region between July 2022 and June 2023 at the seventy-third session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa (RC73).

With its mountainous terrain and use of donkeys and horses as primary modes of transport, Berea Hospital nurse Sello Ramakanate says the consequent high incidence of traumatic brain injuries in Lesotho is compounded by limited critical care, pushing up deaths rates.

Hammanskraal resident Tebogo Hlongwane was terrified when she took her three-year-old son, Agisang, to the emergency room at Jubilee District Hospital.

Nadja* was planning her wedding two years ago when she learned that she was HIV-positive. Eight months after the wedding, she fell pregnant. "I feared for the baby ... he was still at risk of being born HIV-positive. I became more and more worried,” she recalls.