Promoting creative expression in the mental health approach

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Tito Vicente Samossi Joaquim, artistically known as Tito Vibes, is a young artist who has found a way to express his dreams, struggles, and aspirations for the future in painting. Born in the Santa Tereza neighbourhood of Viana, where, from an early age, his joy was drawing, Tito filled his school notebooks with doodles and drawings that told stories that words could not express. 

Promising progress on eye health in African region, but challenges remain

Promising progress on eye health in African region, but challenges remain
Despite important progress towards integrating eye health into primary health care services in African countries, a dire shortage of financial resources, combined with the concentration of scarce human resources in urban areas and low community awareness, continues to threaten the gains.

Urgent action needed to accelerate mental health progress in African region

Urgent action needed to accelerate mental health progress in African region
The African region has made progress over the past decade to strengthen mental health systems, including investments to improve care, health workforce as well as national policies to steer the delivery of vital services. However, the pace of the progress is slow and further efforts are needed to address mental health challenges and ensure well-being.

Rodrigues receives training on integrated care for older people

The proportion of people over the age of 65 in Rodrigues climbed from 7.5% to 9.1% between 2011 and 2021.

Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE), a comprehensive approach to providing person-centred care to older people in the context of an ageing population, attained a fresh milestone with the completion of a sensitization campaign and training of trainers (ToT) in Rodrigues in September 2024.

Eswatini successfully completes second joint external evaluation

Minister of Health Honorable Mduduzi Matsebula and the WHO Representative Dr Susan Tembo posing with the team of external experts during the official opening of the JEE

Mbabane—The Kingdom of Eswatini has successfully completed its second Joint External Evaluation (JEE) of the implementation of the International Health Regulations (IHR) (2005) capacities. The JEE is a voluntary, collaborative, and multisectoral process designed to assess a country’s ability to prevent, detect, and respond swiftly to public health risks, whether they arise naturally or from deliberate or accidental events.

Strengthening Zimbabwe’s Expanded Programme on Immunization: Addressing Data Quality Challenges

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Harare – In public and global health, accurate data is a cornerstone for effective decision-making and disease control. Recognizing the critical importance of high-quality surveillance data, the World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), UNICEF, Gavi and Crown Agents, has embarked on a strategic initiative to improve Ministry of Health and Child Care (MOHCC) data quality at provincial and district levels.