Lomé – Mental health experts and policymakers from 26 countries across West and Central Africa have pledged to accelerate the expansion of dignified, rights-based mental health services and fast-track progress towards the WHO African Region’s 2030 mental health targets
Read moreUganda has today entered the 42-day countdown to the end of its Ebola outbreak after the last confirmed case tested negative for the virus for a second time and was discharged from care, marking an important milestone in the country's response.
Read moreKampala—The World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), together with the Ministry of Health of Uganda and partners, have offici…
Read moreMeeting in Dar es Salaam for the 3rd International Conference on PEN-Plus in Africa (ICPPA 2026), health experts, policymakers and partners renewed commitments to accelerate action against severe noncommunicable diseases and expand access to quality care across the African Region. They called for stronger political leadership, increased domestic investment and the scale-up of the African-led PEN-Plus model to reach the 2030 NCD targets.
Read moreBrazzaville—Africa Vaccination Week 2026 concluded under the theme “For Every Generation, Vaccines Work,” The theme is more than a slogan; it is a reality that our continent has now proven in real time — and a reminder t…
Read moreBunia, Democratic Republic of the Congo—Behind the blue walls of Bunia Central Prison, where more than 2000 inmates live in close quarters, an Ebola isolation and care unit has been established to provide safe clinical c…
Read moreDakar – More than 80 experts from 19 African countries work together in Dakar to improve the quality, consistency and use of polio surveillance and outbreak response data, a critical step toward strengthening disease det…
Read moreMongbwalu, Democratic Republic of the Congo—In a small laboratory at Mongbwalu General Referral Hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's north-eastern Ituri Province, tabletop diagnostic devices hum faintly. Rolled out soon after the declaration of the Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak, the machines have drastically reduced testing times, enabling faster, life-saving action to stop the spread of the virus.
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