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An integrated nationwide Maternal and Child Health Week campaign (MCHW) is underway in Sierra Leone aimed at restoring the delivery of essential health services which were interrupted during the Ebola outbreak. The campaign locally known as “Mammy and Pikin Wellbodi Week” is being conducted from 26-30 November with the focus of reaching an estimated 1.3 million children under 5 years with vitamin A supplementation and deworming with Albendazole. It also provides opportunity to reach children 0-23 months tha

First large scale maternal and child health campaign underway after end of Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone

An integrated nationwide Maternal and Child Health Week campaign (…
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Uganda Launches the National Medicines Policy (NMP) and National Pharmaceutical Sector Strategic Plan III (NPSSPIII)

Kampala 27th November 2015: Uganda launched the new National…
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New recommendations show how to treat all people living with HIV and decrease new infections

Harare, 27 November 2015 –The world  is poised to end the AIDS…
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Youngest victims of the health crisis in Central African Republic

26 November 2015: “I was on my way home from the school whe
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Uganda launches Human Papillomavirus Vaccine

Kasese, 26th November 2015: Uganda launched the Human Papillomavirus…
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Uganda holds Universal Health Coverage Symposium

Kampala, 26th November 2015: Uganda held a National symposium to…
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Ministers of Health in the African Region endorse WHO’s commitment to transformative change

N’Djamena, 24 November 2015 – Today, delegates at the 65thS
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Health Ministers Endorse a Research Strategy for the African Region

Health Ministers Endorse a Research Strategy for the African Region

Health ministers from the WHO African Region have endorsed a new…
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