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Africa faces rising climate-linked health emergencies

Africa faces rising climate-linked health emergencies

Brazzaville – Climate-related health emergencies are on the rise in Africa, accounting for more than half of public health events recorded in the region over th

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Vaccination remains a powerful weapon against COVID-19 pandemic

Improving response as South Sudan marks two years since the first COVID-19 case

Juba, 5 April 2022 – Two years ago on 5 April 2020, South Sudan recorded its first COVID-19 case.

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Dr Charles Sagoe-Moses, WHO Representative and HE Mr HARADA Hideaki, the Ambassador of Japan to Namibia in the Erongo at the Governor's Office.

Bringing quality reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health care closer to the community

The Ministry of Health and Social Services with support from World Health Organization (WHO) and funding from the Government of Japan concluded a one-year project to mitigate th

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Siphephelosethu Ntjangase poses outside Nhlangano health center where he is receiving treatment

“WHY SHORTER TB REGIMEN IS THE MOST PREFFERED BY PATIENTS IN ESWATINI”

Siphephelosethu Ntjangase is a 21-year-old university student from Hluti village in the Shiselweni region who suffers from pulmonary drug resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB).  In October 2021 before getting checked, he noticed that he was losing weight, sweating at night and had a persistent cough that had lasted over a year. From the first test, the diagnosis was not conclusive which forced him to opt for a second opinion and that is when he tested positive for tuberculosis (TB).
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Major antibiotic donation moves African countries closer to defeating yaws

Major antibiotic donation moves African countries closer to defeating yaws

A major donation of azithromycin, an antibiotic, is being delivered to Cameroon, Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo to contribute to the ongoing efforts to eradicate yaws in the three countries that are among nine in Africa where the disfiguring and debilitating childhood infectious disease is still endemic.
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Health Minister, Dr. Wilhelmina Jallah receiving first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine during the launch in Monrovia

Liberia marks one year of COVID-19 vaccination, 1,124,277 people receive full dose

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Implications of social media misinformation on COVID-19 vaccine confidence among pregnant women in Africa

Implications of social media misinformation on COVID-19 vaccine confidence among pregnant women in Africa

It has been over a year since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of COVID-19 as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern and subsequently a global pandemic. The world has experienced a lot of uncertainty since then as we all get used to this new ‘normal’ with social distancing measures, lockdowns, the emergence of new variants, and an array of hope with the development of vaccines.
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WHO’s SURGE team visiting the National Emergency Operation Centre at the Ministry of Defense Justice and Security, Gaborone

Enhancing Botswana`s emergency preparedness and response capacity beyond COVID-19: The SURGE Initiative

Each year, more than 100 health emergencies occur in the African Region, including infectious disease outbreaks including cholera, yellow fever, menin

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