Sierra Leone has one of the highest burdens of malaria in the world. The country's entire population is at risk of the disease and it is one of Sierra Leone’s leading causes of death and illness. Our photo essay explores progress in reducing malaria cases and impacts in the West African country.

FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE, 13 December 2016 - The World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Malaria Report 2016 reveals that Sierra Leone has one of the world’s highest burdens of malaria cases, but has experienced significant progress in reducing malaria deaths and transmission.

12 December 2016, Windhoek, Namibia/Brazzaville, Congo – The First Regional Forum on Strengthening Health Systems for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Universal Health Coverage (UHC) opened today in Windhoek, Namibia with the theme Healthy Systems, Healthy People: Making Universal Health Coverage Work for Africa.  The Forum, organized by th

Lusaka, 12 December 2016 - The Zambian Government was honoured as the fourth country in Africa to host the Joint Mission of the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases (UNIATF) from 5-9 December 2016. The objective of the visit by the UNIATF to Zambia was to support the UN Country Team and the Government to scale up the national multi-sectoral response to NCDs in line with the WHO Global NCD Action Plan 2013-2020 and relevant regional WHO action plans.

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

Uganda hosted five-day African Region Workshop on understanding and tracking the Tuberculosis (TB) epidemic for policy and programmatic action. The workshop was organized to build capacity of countries to understand and track the TB epidemic using routine surveillance data and the use of findings to inform policy and programmatic action at global, national and subnational levels.

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.

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.

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.