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For fourteen-year-old João, the opening of the PEN-Plus clinic in Nhamatanda, Mozambique, was lifesaving. Living with rheumatic heart disease, over the course of three years his condition deteriorated after a spate of misdiagnoses. Determining he needed critical life-saving heart surgery, his doctor received support from PEN-Plus to fly him to the capital Maputo in order to get the procedure done. Still attending the clinic for follow-up appointments and treatments, João’s health has now greatly improved.
WHO / Ivan Simone Congolo
Credits
Boosting efforts to transform care for severe chronic diseases in Africa
Major step in malaria prevention as three West African countries roll out vaccine
Major step in malaria prevention as three West African countries roll out vaccine
Pioneering charter to drive up investment in Africa’s health workforce
Pioneering charter to drive up investment in Africa’s health workforce
Over 50 million lives saved in Africa through expanded immunization programme
Over 50 million lives saved in Africa through expanded immunization programme

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Ghana intensifies efforts towards malaria elimination
Ghana intensifies efforts towards malaria elimination
Malawi curbs cholera through enhanced outbreak control
Malawi curbs cholera through enhanced outbreak control
Entrenching person-centred life-stages care to advance the right to health in Sierra Leone
Entrenching person-centred life-stages care to advance the right to health in Sierra Leone
Albert Nkhoma, Community-based volunteer
Albert Nkhoma, Community-based volunteer

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RDT testing for COVID-19
Southern Africa faces uptick in COVID-19 cases
WHO delivers assorted lifesaving medical supplies to Mayom County in the Greater Unity Region to support flood affected communities.
WHO takes health care services directly to South Sudan’s flood-affected communities in Mayom County
A health worker gives medication to a patient. Kenya has embarked on a extensive evidence-based approach to root out TB
Kenya embarks on new approach to prioritize future TB actions

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Health champion: Albert Nkhoma, Zambia
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Health champion: Albert Nkhoma, Zambia
Albert Nkhoma, relais communautaire, Zambie

Events

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1st International Conference on PEN-Plus in Africa (ICPPA 2024)

23 April 2024

World Health Day 2024: My health, my right

7 April 2024

Accreditation of Non-State actors: call for applications to participate in the WHO R...

15 December 2023