The World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa has welcomed the announcement that trials of a malaria candidate vaccine shows promising results by providing protection against clinical malaria in children.
The results were announced at the Malaria Forum hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, USA.

Mobile phones are becoming one of the world’s most important health tools, used in many countries to track exercise, ensure medicines are genuine, and even to read blood glucose levels. In Gabon, they’re being used to raise revenue for the national health system.

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01 Gateway to the AFRO SHOC

02 The Main Operations Room

03 The Control Room

04 One of the Breakout Rooms

05 The Equipment Room

06 The Main Operations in session

07 The Main Operations Room in session

08 The Main Operations Room in session

On 17 December, WHO team visited the displacement camp near Mpoko airport hosting around 45 000 people who have fled recent violence, to rapidly assess the health situation and priority needs.

At the Mpoko camp, as across the rest of the country, key health concerns include:

Commission presents its final report, calling for high-level action to address major health challenge

The Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity (ECHO) presented its final report to the WHO Director-General today, culminating a two-year process to address the alarming levels of childhood obesity and overweight globally.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 40 million children aged below 15 years fall victim to violence each year. The ensuing traumas vary according to the gravity of the violence and the child's personal experience and can, in the long run, have medical and psychosocial consequences.

Executive summary

Harare, 21 March 2003 -- Tuberculosis (TB) infects 1.6 million people and kills 600,000 others in Africa every year, making the disease one of the most common preventable causes of death from a single infectious agent in the Region, according to a report issued Friday by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa. 

Brazzaville -- What actions should countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other development partners take to accelerate the development of human resources for health in the African Region?

Answers to this question are contained in a document prepared by the WHO Regional Office for Africa for discussion at the 52nd session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa taking place from 8 to 12 October in Brazzaville, Congo.

After more than two years without the detection of wild polio in Nigeria, the Government reported three laboratory confirmed wild poliovirus type one (WPV1) cases with onset between July and August 2016.

All three cases were detected from Borno State, in children between 2 and 5 years of age. Two of them developed acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) while one was asymptomatic, identified as a close contact of a child with AFP.