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Stefina Mocuvele looks on as her grandson Nolege plays happily with his siblings. It’s a far cry from his condition three years ago, when a bout of malaria landed the then six-year-old in hospital, 10 kilometers away from their home in Matuba locality in the Chókwè district of Gaza province, Mozambique.

New films show the impact of yellow fever outbreaks in Taraba State, and the global efforts to eliminate yellow fever epidemics by 2026.  

Sierra Leone is now the newest of 38 countries in the WHO African region to have enacted a bill into law to protect its population against the harmful effects of tobacco and nicotine products. The Tobacco and Nicotine Control Act of 2022 was unanimously passed into law on 3 August 2022 by the country’s law makers

Nouvellement recrutés par le Ministère de la Santé, de l’Hygiène Publique et de la Couverture Maladie Universelle (MSHP-CMU), 136 Pharmaciens et Préparateurs Gestionnaires en Pharmacie (PGP), ont été formés sur la chaîne d’approvisionnement des produits de santé en Côte d’Ivoire. Cette formation, qui s’est déroulée du 18 juillet au 05 août 2022 à Abidjan, a bénéficié de l’appui financier de l’OMS dans le cadre d’un co-financement avec le Fonds mondial pour la lutte contre le VIH, la tuberculose et le paludisme.

Healthy life expectancy in the African region has increased on average by 10 years per person between 2000 and 2019, a World Health Organization (WHO) assessment reports. This rise is greater than in any other region of the world during the same period. The report also notes that the disruptive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic could threaten these huge gains.

Marlène Seck has brought her infant daughter to the Philippe Maguilene Senghor Health Centre in Yoff, Senegal, to be vaccinated against hepatitis B. The baby cries as she receives her jab, but the tears are worth it: having received her first dose at birth, this is her third dose of the life-saving vaccine.