Health Ministers from ten southern African countries and senior officials of the World Health Organization meet from 26 - 28 August in Harare, Zimbabwe, to examine the response of the health sector to the acute and large-scale humanitarian crisis facing the region.

Implementation of eSurveillance in the context of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response is the foundation for the monitoring of the health situations and assessment of trends for decision making.

16-18 July 2015, Cape Town, South Africa

Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) is a comprehensive, evidence-based strategy for strengthening national public health surveillance and response in the African Region linking community, health facility, district and national levels.

Theme: “Reaching every child with immunization.”

The specific objectives of this conference are:

Johannesburg, 11 August 2009 -- The emergence of the Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Pandemic puts an additional pressure on health systems of African countries already stretched with other competing public health priorities, said Dr Luis Gomes Sambo, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Regional Director for Africa.

Brazzaville, 24 March 2006 -- African countries have been urged to prioritize tuberculosis (TB) by allocating adequate resources for its control and increasing access to TB prevention, treatment and care services.

Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) in the WHO African Region now goes beyond the scope of Communicable Diseases. Non-communicable health conditions and events are now a priority in IDSR.

In order to reflect this change of environment, the CDER has been renamed IDSR Epidemiological Report. This July 2010 issue attempts to provide information on the burden of some regional priority diseases such as cholera, cerebrospinal meningitis, dengue fever, influenza, poliomyelitis and yellow fever in the WHO African Region.

The aim of MLM training is to enable immunisation managers at all levels to acquire skills in planning, management, monitoring and evaluation. It will also give them the knowledge to supervise and support immunisation operations such as service delivery, the cold chain and logistics, purchase and quality control of vaccines, communication in support of the programme.

On the basis of the clear linkage between poverty and health, the WHO Regional Office for Africa has developed a strategy which explores the potential contribution of health to poverty reduction, economic growth and human development.

The overall objective of the strategy is to have the health sector, given its comparative advantage, contribute to poverty reduction by improving health. The strategy is to be discussed by the 52nd session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa scheduled for 8-12 October in Brazzaville, Congo.

It aims to :

Monrovia, 22 April 2014 - The WHO Regional Director for Africa Dr Matshidiso Moeti has underscored the importance of involving the communities in the fight against Ebola.

1 APRIL 2016 - Lassa fever has killed more than 160 people in West Africa, most of them in Nigeria, since November 2015. Many of these lives could have been saved if a rapid diagnostic test were available so that people could receive treatment early.