With growing momentum to advance universal health coverage, strengthen health security, and ensure sustainable socio-economic transformation of the African continent, the World Health Organization in the African Region and the African Union Commission (AUC) have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthen collaboration between the two institutions to improve people’s health in Africa.
Read moreA high-level roundtable After an unprecedented period of success in global malaria control, progress has stalled. According to WHO’s latest World malaria report, there were an estimated 216 million cases of malar…
Read moreBENI, Nord Kivu Province, 25 September 2018 (WHO) – The World Health Organization (WHO) is working in close coordination with the Ministry of Health and with the support of other partners to step up its emergency respons…
Read moreThe Republic of Congo launches campaign to vaccinate more than 1 million people against yellow fever, with the support of WHO.
Read moreThe Regional Director Dr Moeti will lead a WHO AFR delegation to the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly which takes place in New York from 23–28 September 2018.
Read moreNon-communicable diseases (NCD), which include cancer and diabetes, are a leading cause of death in the region. WHO estimates its “best buy” NCD policies will save 8 million lives globally.
Read moreThe World Health Organization (WHO) is scaling up its response to an outbreak of cholera in Zimbabwe, which is expanding quickly in Harare, the country’s capital with a population of more than two million people.
Read moreIt’s been a little over a month since the Ebola outbreak in North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was declared by the Ministry of Health. In the hotspot of Mangina, which is a rural community much progress has been made, but a new case in the city of Butembo is raising concern.
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