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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — One year after the inaugural Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children in Bogotá, delegates from across Africa have made renewed commitments to intensify efforts to protecting children from violence

Juba - South Sudan has one of the highest rates of malnutrition among children under five. About 2.1 million children under five are at risk of acute malnutrition. This includes 670 000 children who are severely wasted and 1.44 million who are moderately wasted.

The World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a week-long assisted self-benchmarking exercise aimed at strengthening Namibia’s national regulatory system for medical products. Held in Windhoek from 20 to 24 October 2025, the assisted self-benchmarking used the WHO Global Benchmarking Tool (GBT) to review the maturity of the country’s regulatory functions and to identify the strengths of the system and priority areas for improvement.

To mark the United Nations’ 80th anniversary, WHO, in partnership with other UN agencies and the Government of Liberia, launched a health campaign to deliver crucial preventive care, early detection services, and essential health awareness to people across the country. 

Eswatini faces one of the highest burdens of cervical cancer globally.

The World Health Organization (WHO) visited the Namibia Blood Transfusion Service (NamBTS) Headquarters in Windhoek to gain an in-depth understanding of the organization’s operations and identify potential areas for closer collaboration. The visit, initiated by NamBTS, provided WHO an opportunity to observe the entire blood donation and transfusion value chain, from donor recruitment and collection to testing, processing and safe patient transfusion.