On November 13th and 14th, the newly built Kigali Convention Center, lightened up the city in blue, the color of unity against diabetes.

Brazzaville, 07 December 2016 – Experts from the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO) and the Organization of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA) are meeting in Brazzaville, Congo from 7-8 December 2016 to discuss a range of health priorities and actions that both parties will jointly embark on to improve the health of people in Africa.

Monrovia, 8th December, 2016 - The Ministry of Health, Liberia in collaboration with its partners and with the support of the World Health Organization today, launched the National Policy and Strategic Plan on Health Promotion (2016-2021).  The overall goal is to strengthen health promotion implementation at the National, County and Community levels.

Uganda commemorated the World AIDS Day (WAD) 2016 at the public playground in Kalangala District, under the theme “joining Hands to scale up HIV prevention”, with a message to the public to test for HIV and seek treatment.

Abuja, 05 December, 2016- The Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, 0n 02 December, 2016 received the in-coming World Health Organization Country Representative (WR) to Nigeria, Dr Wondimagegnehu Alemu, at a maiden meeting held in the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) in Abuja.

Abuja, 03 December 2016- The World Health Organization (WHO) country office in Nigeria has reviewed the progress made and lessons learnt from the health sector response for humanitarian emergency in the northeast states of Nigeria after four months of scaling up operations in the region affected with insurgency. The 2-day review workshop was aimed at making adjustments and instituting corrective measures for the next two months based on lessons learned.

Monrovia 2nd December, 2016 -  Liberia commemorated World AIDs Day on 1st December 2016. This day is set aside by the United Nations General Assembly to reaffirm commitment to the control of HIV/AIDS, express solidarity for those living with HIV/AIDS and remember those who have been lost over the years. The national commemoration was held in Ganta City, Nimba County under the global theme of “Hands up for HIV Prevention” and national slogan “End AIDS in Liberia: leaving No One Behind”.

The World Health Organization yesterday joined South Africa’s Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC) in launching the country's Complaints Management Call Centre which will receive and register public complaints relating to non-compliance with prescribed norms and standards for health establishments. 

In recent years there has been increasing attention in South Africa on improving quality of health service and care.  The Call Centre will provide the public a platform to lodge complaints about negative experiences which may include:

Juba, 02 December 2016 – Partners and Experts involved in routine immunization services gathered in Juba for a 4- day working session to review the 2016 Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunization (GAVI) work plan and finalize plans for 2017 GAVI grant taking into considerations setbacks of July crisis and determining real and practical situations to get the country back on track in order to achieve the goal of ensuring every child is immunized.

Abuja, 02 December, 2015: Nigeria has  commemorated the  2015 World AIDS Day with the national theme of “Getting to Zero - ending HIV/AIDS by 2030” which reverberates the global vision of achieving zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDs related deaths by 2030.

National commemoratory events spanned the whole week and included HIV testing and counselling at internally displaced persons (IDP) camps and selected Armed Forces barracks in the Federal Capital Territory, annual HIV lecture; special prayers; a novelty match and a ministerial press briefing.