Angola is strengthening its strategic vaccination plan for the period 2026 to 2030, in a process led by the Ministry of Health, through the National Directorate of Public Health (DNSP), with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and other partners in the health sector.

Freetown – The National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG), working closely with the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) and partners including WHO, UNICEF, the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society (SLCRS), CHAI, and AFENET, has commenced a three-day Vaccine Portfolio Optimization and Prioritization (VPOP) exercise to support Sierra Leone's Gavi 6.0 strategy application.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has supported the National Institute for Health Research (INIS) in assessing and improving the quality systems of its diagnostic laboratories for yellow fever, measles, and rubella. This is an important step towards achieving international accreditation and strengthening epidemiological surveillance in Angola.

Kampala, Uganda - In 2025, Uganda confirmed 66 separate measles outbreaks across the country, with a cluster of deaths in an underserved region. The outbreaks hit hardest among young children who had never received a single dose of the vaccine.

For health authorities, that gap between effort and outcome deserved a hard look. The recurring outbreaks signaled that the challenge was driven not by parental hesitation, but by systemic gaps in reaching every child.

The second round of the bivalent oral polio vaccination (bOPV) campaign conducted across Gambella and Benishangul-Gumuz regions, as well as in two zones of Oromia Region (Kellem Wollega and West Wollega), targeting 1,029,048children under the age of five years and have reached a total of 1,048,555 target children making the administrative coverage of 102%. 

Brazzaville - The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa is advancing the digital transformation of public health delivery with the launch of the DIGIT Health Campaign Data Digitization Project, a regional initiative designed to modernize how health campaigns are planned, coordinated, implemented and monitored across the continent.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 22–24 September 2026 A team of experts led by the Regulation and Prequalification Department at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters conducted a technical assistance visit to the Ethiopian Food and Drug Authority (EFDA) Medicines Quality Control Laboratory (MQCL) from 22 to 24 September 2026. The visit served as a preliminary assessment of the MQCL's readiness for the WHO Listing of Quality Control Laboratories (WLQCL), following EFDA's expression of interest in being assessed.

When residents in Birim North District began reporting an unusually high number of deaths among pigs, the reports did not remain at community level. They triggered investigations involving the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Veterinary Services Directorate, Environmental Health Department and other local government agencies.

Abuja, Nigeria — September 22, 2026 — The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) will today open a first-of-its-kind African media forum on road safety, aimed at kick-starting the development of the continent’s first road safety media guidelines.

Ghana is taking steps to strengthen its capacity to conduct and oversee high-quality clinical trials, following an assessment of 15 public and private research and health institutions supported by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Vaccine Institute (NVI), with funding support from the European Union-funded Vax & Pharm Initiative.