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Health is a fundamental human right, not a privilege. Every human being is entitled to affordable and quality healthcare services regardless of their location or status. It is important to ensure that this right is respected and upheld, as all other human rights depend on it. Let us work together…
During his 30 years as a community-based volunteer, Albert Nkhoma has witnessed his neighbourhood, Kalikiliki, in Zambia’s capital city Lusaka, grapple with public health challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic. More recently he worked tirelessly to support the response to the worst cholera…
Benin has made free surgical missions to outlying hospitals a central part of its Universal Health Coverage (UHC) strategy, with the aim of improving access to quality care for vulnerable populations. With support from WHO and the French Muskoka Fund, more than 3000 people have benefited.
Concerted efforts & collaboration by health workers, facilities & communities to end the cholera outbreak in #Zambia 🇿🇲 are paying off. Early detection & treatment are helping to curb the disease, resulting in continuous decline in cases & deaths.
Oral diseases are the most common illnesses in the African Region, affecting hundreds of millions of people every year, including children and the elderly. However, they can be prevented by simple methods, including fluoride toothbrushing and a healthy diet low in sugar and rich in fruit and…
Niger is making great strides in the fight against tuberculosis and HIV, thanks to the one-stop-shop strategy implemented with support from WHO. This approach allows patients co-infected with both diseases to benefit from integrated care at health facilities. This reduces incidence of delayed start…
Directors and WRs in WHO AFRO give their vision of what characterise a good assistant.
Obesity is rising rapidly in Africa. Between 2000 and 2016, Africa nearly doubled the number of overweight adults. The trends are same for children. Africa is currently home to 28% of the world’s overweight children below five years old. This is caused by unhealthy eating behaviors, lack of…
Hearing unlike vision, often fades so gradually that we scarcely notice the change. We turn up the volume of our TV, cellphone or radio, perhaps not even noticing that we ask others to repeat themselves more frequently. It's a subtle shift, and rarely occurs overnight. In Africa, it is projected…
To mark World Mother Language Day, celebrated every 21 February, colleagues from the WHO Regional Office for Africa have shared some advice on health in their mother tongue. From Chad to Ghana, via Senegal, Kenya and Congo, let's discover a linguistic diversity serving a single cause: the promotion…
Over the years 2021 to 2023, the WHO South Sudan country office made remarkable strides towards achieving its goals. This period was marked by several noteworthy accomplishments, each of which impacted the health sector.
Botswana strengthens human rights approach to prevention of mother-to-child transmission