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Arusha - Africa must rapidly accelerate efforts to improve access to, and the quality of health services for children to save more children’s lives and achieve sustainable development.

Prompted by the alarming limited progress, WHO with UNICEF and USAID brought together experts in child health in Arusha from 14-17 February to rethink and devise sustainable solutions to barriers that are holding back progress for the health and development of children.

Dar es Salaam - In a bid to strengthen capacity for crisis preparedness and response in the African continent, the World Health Organization is collaborating with Member States to strengthen the response infrastructure.

Karamoja – The World Health Organization (WHO) Uganda has started delivering medical supplies to more than 518,000 people in the Karamoja sub-region, north-eastern Uganda, facing adver

Luanda, Angola – In reference to the World Day for Negligible Tropical Diseases (NTDs), celebrated every year on the 30th of January, the Angola Ministry of Health (MINSA), with the support from the World Health Organization (WHO), brought together the main key partners to draw attention to NTD  priorities , the efforts made, and also to reflect on partnership between communities, sectors, and countries to advocate for more investments and actions aimed at preventing and eliminating NTDs.

Abuja, 8 February, 2023 - Four months before her wedding and on the eve of starting a new job, Dada Titilope went in for a routine medical check. It was then that the 36-year-old resident of Ile-Ife Osun State in Southwestern Nigeria discovered that she had hepatitis B.

“I was very scared,” Titilope recalls, describing the horrors she read online about the disease. “I thought it was a death sentence.”

She considered calling off the wedding. But her fiancé and family wouldn’t hear of it, encouraging her instead to focus on staying well.