Africa: WHO Launches Funding Appeal to Help a Record Number of People in Complex, Intersecting Health Emergencies

WHO is launching its 2023 health emergency appeal today for US$ 2.54 billion to provide assistance to millions of people around the world facing health emergencies. The number of… Read more »

Africa: WHO Urges Action to Protect Children From Contaminated Medicines

WHO is releasing an urgent call to action to countries to prevent, detect and respond to incidents of substandard and falsified medical products. Read more »

Africa: WHO Announces Plans to Establish a TB Vaccine Accelerator Council

The adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tuberculosis (TB) services has brought the urgency of vaccine development efforts into sharp focus. Speaking earlier today at a… Read more »

Africa: Small Island Developing States Accelerate Action to Tackle Biggest Killers

The Government of Barbados, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization are holding a high-level technical meeting on noncommunicable diseases… Read more »

Africa: 8th WHO Technical Taskforce - Defeating Meningitis By 2030 - a Global Road Map

The 8th meeting was held from Tuesday 13th - Thursday 15th December 2022, chaired by Professor Brian Greenwood (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - UK) and Professor… Read more »

Africa: Close to One Billion People Globally Are Served By Health-Care Facilities With No Electricity Access or With Unreliable Electricity

Close to 1 billion people in low- and lower-middle income countries are served by health-care facilities with unreliable electricity supply or with no electricity access at all,… Read more »

Africa: WHO Updates COVID-19 Guidelines on Masks, Treatments and Patient Care

WHO has updated its guidelines on mask wearing in community settings, COVID-19 treatments, and clinical management. This is part of a continuous process of reviewing such… Read more »

Africa: Urgent Action Needed As Acute Malnutrition Threatens the Lives of Millions of Vulnerable Children

United Nations agencies are calling for urgent action to protect the most vulnerable children in the 15 countries hardest hit by an unprecedented food and nutrition crisis. Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At Ngic High Level Meeting - 12 January 2023

Excellencies, dear colleagues and friends, Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At Briefing to the Member States of the African Union and Their Permanent Representatives - 12 January 2023

Your Excellency, Ambassador Dlamini, Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Media Briefing - 11 January 2023

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. Read more »

Africa: A Child or Youth Died Once Every 4.4 Seconds in 2021 - UN Report

NEW YORK/GENEVA/WASHINGTON D.C.,10 January 2023 - An estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and youth aged between 5-24… Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At Information Session for Member States - 5 January 2023

Honourable Ministers, Excellencies, dear colleagues and friends, Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Media Briefing - 4 January 2023

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. Read more »

Africa: One Health in G20 Countries

The G20 countries are looking for guidance from the One Health Quadripartite in operationalizing One Health (OH) approaches. In 2022, the Quadripartite supported the Indonesian G20… Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Media Briefing - 21 December 2022

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening. Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the PRSEAH Quarterly Member State Briefing Organizers

Excellencies, dear colleagues and friends, Read more »

Africa: WHO, WIPO, WTO Call for Innovation and Cooperation to Support Timely Access to Pandemic Products

The Joint Technical Symposium held on 16 December by the World Health Organization (WHO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO)… Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the WHO, WIPO, WTO Joint Technical Symposium On the Covid-19 Pandemic - Response, Preparedness, Resilience - 16 December 2022

Mr Darren Tang, Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: WHO Declares DR Congo Free of Guinea-worm Disease Transmission

The World Health Organization (WHO) is proud to announce that it has certified the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as free of transmission of Dracunculus medinensis, the… Read more »

Africa: The Quadripartite Establishes Technical Group On Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Integrated Surveillance (QTG-AIS)

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global threat to animal and human health, food security, economic growth, and development. It is mostly driven by the inappropriate use of… Read more »

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 »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At Information Session On Universal Health and Preparedness Review - 14 December 2022

Honourable Ministers, Excellencies, dear colleagues and friends, Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Media Briefing - 14 December 2022

Good afternoon, and a very warm welcome to our friends from ACANU and the Geneva press corps, as we approach the end of 2022. Read more »

Africa: EMFLU 2.0 - Improved Flu Data Sharing in the Eastern Mediterranean

A new and improved Eastern Mediterranean Flu Network (EMFLU 2.0) promises to be a more flexible and efficient tool for sharing epidemiological and virological data on influenza in… Read more »