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August 29, 2023
Africa: WHO Initiative Signs New Licensing Agreements On Covid-19 Technologies
The COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP), a multi-stakeholder partnership to facilitate sharing of intellectual property (IP), knowledge and innovations has announced three new… Read more »
June 23, 2023
Africa: Multilateral Development Banks and WHO Launch New Investment Platform to Strengthen Primary Health Care Services
In a landmark development aimed at investing in and strengthening essential, climate and crisis-resilient primary health care (PHC) services in low- and low-and-middle income… Read more »
June 06, 2023
Africa: Basic Energy Access Lags Amid Renewable Opportunities, New Report Shows
A new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the World Bank, and the… Read more »
May 03, 2023
Africa: New WHO Manual Aims to Strengthen Pedestrian Safety
The World Health Organization [WHO] and partners launched a revised manual to help decision makers curb the scourge of pedestrian deaths and injuries in road traffic crashes today. Read more »
April 20, 2023
Africa: WHO Director-General's Remarks At mRNA Technology Transfer Programme Meeting - 20 April 2023
Your Excellency Minister Nzimande, Read more »
April 06, 2023
Africa: 'Dakar Declaration' to Strengthen Data On Road Crash Deaths in Africa
Nearly half of all countries in the WHO African Region have committed to strengthening reporting on road crash fatalities, with an eye on meeting the global target of halving road… Read more »
December 14, 2022
Africa: Accelerated Action Needed to Ensure Safe Drinking-Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for All
Urgent action is needed globally and locally to achieve safe and sustainably managed water, sanitation and hygiene for all in order to prevent devastating impacts on the health of… Read more »
December 02, 2022
Africa: Global Health Is the Best Investment We Can Make
The pandemic and the fallout from Russia's war in Ukraine have reversed progress in the fight against many diseases, decreased life expectancy, lowered basic immunization coverage,… Read more »
November 15, 2022
Africa: African Journalists Tool Up to Tackle Road Carnage
On the road from Kakamega to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, traffic grinds to a halt. Read more »
October 20, 2022
Africa: Pharma, Tech and Social Media Companies Join Forces With WHO to Launch the Tobacco Cessation Consortium During World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany
During the World Health Summit in Berlin, WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, formally launched the Tobacco Cessation Consortium, a group of partners in the… Read more »
October 07, 2022
Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening and Concluding Message At the 2nd Meeting of the High-Level Coalition On Health and Energy - 7 October 2022
Your Excellency Samira Bawumia, Read more »
October 04, 2022
Africa: Virtual CGMP Training Marathon for Vaccine Manufacturing - Sustaining a GMP-Compliant Environment
Many low- and middle-income countries' (LMICs) need for quality-assured vaccines is dependent on importation and are at risk of a lack of consistent supply of such products. It is… Read more »
Africa: WHO and Partners Launch World's Most Extensive Freely Accessible AI Health Worker
The World Health Organization, with support from the Qatar Ministry of Health, today launched the AI-powered WHO Digital Health Worker, Florence version 2.0, offering an innovative… Read more »
October 03, 2022
Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the European Investment Bank - WHO Health Event - 03 October 2022
Commissioner Kyriakides, Read more »
September 28, 2022
Africa: WHO and ILO Call for New Measures to Tackle Mental Health Issues At Work
New global WHO guidelines on mental health at work are reinforced by practical strategies outlined in a joint WHO/ILO policy brief. Read more »
August 03, 2022
Africa: Global Report On Assistive Technology - Moving Forward
On July 14 and15 the WHO, together with the Global Alliance of Assistive Technology Organizations (GAATO), co-led several sessions at the Joint International Conference on Digital… Read more »
July 18, 2022
Africa: WHO and Goodville Collaborate to Develop New in-Game Character to Help Achieve and Maintain Physical and Emotional Well-Being
The World Health Organization (WHO) have teamed up with Stork Limited, developers of the popular free-to-play Goodville farm game adventure app, to create a new artificial… Read more »
July 13, 2022
Africa: Women in the Health and Care Sector Earn 24 Percent Less Than Men
The most comprehensive global analysis of gender pay inequalities in the health and care sector finds that women face a larger gender pay gap than other economic sectors. Read more »
July 06, 2022
Africa: WHO, I-DAIR to Partner for Inclusive, Impactful, and Responsible Research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Health
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Digital Health and AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) outlining their… Read more »
June 28, 2022
Africa: It's Time to End Deaths On Our Roads
Road safety affects everyone. We step from our homes every day onto roads that lead us to our jobs, schools and to meet our vital daily needs. Yet the transport systems we all use… Read more »
June 21, 2022
Africa: WHO and Kahoot! Collaborate to Bring Health Content Into the Classroom
WHO is working with Kahoot!, a free game-based learning platform to bring health content to more than a billion students worldwide. Through this collaboration, WHO has published… Read more »
June 06, 2022
Africa: Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Moving Digital Policy Into Action Event
Your Excellency Minister Fahad bin Abdurrahman Al-Jalajel, Read more »
June 02, 2022
Africa: Global Strategy On Human Resources for Health - Workforce 2030
With data from 194 Member States as of 2020, the global health workforce is estimated to be 65 million, reflecting growth of 29% since the adoption in 2016 of the Global Strategy… Read more »
Africa: Human Resources for Health At the Seventy-Fifth World Health Assembly
In the past two years we have become acutely aware that a health system is only as strong as the people - the health workforce - within it. Read more »
June 01, 2022
Africa: Report - Covid-19 Slows Progress Towards Universal Energy Access
The energy crisis arising from the war in Ukraine may lead to further setbacks Read more »
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