March 24, 2023
Africa: WHO World TB Day Message - Dr Tereza Kasaeva, Director, WHO Global TB Programme
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Africa: WHO Releases Priorities for Research and Development of Age-Appropriate Antibiotics
WHO launches today the first ever list of priority paediatric formulations for antibiotics so that more targeted research and development efforts can address the specific needs of… Read more »
March 23, 2023
Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Media Briefing - 23 March 2023
Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, Read more »
March 21, 2023
Africa: WHO Director-General's Speech At the Friends of Global Health Meeting - 21 March 2023
Your Excellency Ambassador Stasch, Read more »
Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Quarterly Briefing for Member States On Prevention of and Response to Sexual Misconduct - 21 March 2023
Excellencies, dear colleagues and friends, Read more »
March 17, 2023
Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the CSO - DG Dialogue - 'Priorities On Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights At Global, Regional and Country Levels' - 17 March 2023
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Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Visit of the UK Royal College of Defence Studies - 17 March 2023
Lieutenant General Sir George Norton, Read more »
March 11, 2023
Africa: Unitaid-Sponsored Programme Screened Over One Million Women for Cervical Cancer in Low - and Middle-Income Countries
Over 1 million women in 14 low-and middle-income countries have been screened for cervical cancer through an integrated prevention programme, delivered by country governments in… Read more »
March 13, 2023
Africa: Global Summit Maps Priorities to Turn the Tide On Postpartum Haemorrhage
The first global summit on Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH) concluded in Dubai last week with renewed resolve to tackle the systemic bottlenecks that lead to more than 70,000 women… Read more »
March 11, 2023
Africa: WHO At the 146th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) - Statement At the 35th Session of the IPU Forum of Women Parliamentarians
The World Health Organization (WHO) was heartened by last year's IPU Kigali Declaration, when parliamentarians committed to stepping up our action for gender equality. Read more »
March 12, 2023
Africa: HRP Alliance Celebrates Five Years of Research Capacity Strengthening
In celebration of its five-year anniversary, the HRP Alliance recently hosted two events to facilitate dialogue between implementers, beneficiaries and coordinators about the core… Read more »
March 14, 2023
Africa: Message By the Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals At WHO - March 2023
Kate O'Brien, Director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at WHO Read more »
Africa: WHO Publishes Recommendations On Two New Types of Insecticide-Treated Nets
Since 2005, over 2 billion insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) have been distributed worldwide to prevent malaria. All of these nets were treated with only one insecticide class -… Read more »
March 09, 2023
Africa: Massive Efforts Needed to Reduce Salt Intake and Protect Lives
A first-of-its-kind World Health Organization (WHO) Global report on sodium intake reduction shows that the world is off-track to achieve its global target of reducing sodium… Read more »
March 08, 2023
Africa: Global Meeting of the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health
14-16 March 2023, Accra, Ghana Read more »
March 23, 2023
Africa: WHO Announces New Director of the Global Malaria Programme
WHO is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Daniel Ngamije Madandi, MD, MPH as Director of the Global Malaria Programme, effective 8 April 2023. Read more »
March 22, 2023
Africa: The Cholera Emergency Is Avoidable
The world is facing an upsurge in cholera, even touching countries that have not had the disease in decades. Years of progress against this age-old disease have disappeared. While… Read more »
Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the World TB Day Online Talk - 22 March 2023
Your Excellency Ambassador Chen Xu, Read more »
March 18, 2023
Africa: Second High-Level Interregional Meeting On the Health of Refugees and Migrants
Amid the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes in the Syrian Arab Republic and Türkiye over a month ago, as well as the ongoing war in Ukraine now past its one-year mark, 3… Read more »
March 15, 2023
Africa: Five Cities Recognized for Public Health Achievements At Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit
Partnership for Healthy Cities award recipients include Montevideo, Uruguay for food policy; Mexico City, Mexico for road safety; Vancouver, Canada for surveillance; Athens, Greece… Read more »
March 17, 2023
Africa: WHO Updates Conoravirus Variant Definitions as Virus 'Continues to Evolve'
WHO has updated its tracking system and working definitions for variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to better correspond to the current global variant… Read more »
March 16, 2023
Africa: WHO Signs Partnership Agreement With Mapaction
MapAction has signed the Standby Partnership Agreement with the World Health Organization (WHO) which will allow the UK-based emergency response and disaster preparedness charity… Read more »
March 13, 2023
Africa: At Some Point in 2023 We Will Be Able to Say Covid-19 is Over as a Pandemic - WHO Chief
President Santa Ono, Read more »
March 03, 2023
Africa: New Compendium Showcases Positive Examples in Refugee and Migrant Health
A new WHO compendium of 49 country case examples, Promoting the health of refugees and migrants: experiences from around the world, developed by the Health and Migration Programme… Read more »
Africa: Countries Begin Negotiations On Global Agreement to Protect World From Future Pandemic Emergencies
Countries of the World Health Organization have begun negotiations on a global accord on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, using the "zero draft" as a basis for… Read more »
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