Africa: WHO Verifies Niger As the First Country in the African Region to Eliminate Onchocerciasis

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it the fifth country globally and the first country in… Read more »

Guinea: Guinea Eliminates Human African Trypanosomiasis As a Public Health Problem

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem. This form of human African… Read more »

Africa: Multi-country Outbreak of Cholera, External Situation Report #22 - 24 January 2025

From 1 January to 29 December 2024, a cumulative total of 804 721 cholera cases and 5805 deaths were reported from 33 countries across five WHO regions. The number of cases and… Read more »

Africa: WHO Launches U.S.$ 1.5 Billion Health Emergency Appeal to Tackle Unprecedented Global Health Crises

Conflict, climate change, epidemics, and displacement are converging to create an unparalleled global health crisis, with 305 million people in urgent need of humanitarian… Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Media Briefing - 16 January 2025

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, happy New Year, and welcome to our first global media briefing for 2025. Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Launch of WHO's 2025 Health Emergency Appeal - 16 January 2025

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

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the XXXI High-Level Meeting - From Promise to Impact: Implementing the Pact for the Future and COP29 Commitments - 16 January 2025

Your Excellency, former president and NGIC co-chair, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Regional Committee for Africa Meeting - 14 January 2025

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, and a happy New Year to all Member States. Read more »

Africa: Milestone - Covid-19 Five Years Ago

Five years ago on 31 December 2019, WHO's Country Office in China picked up a media statement by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from their website on cases of 'viral… Read more »

Africa: Statement on the Antigen Composition of COVID-19 Vaccines

Vaccination remains an important public health countermeasure against COVID-19. As per the WHO Director General’s standing recommendations for COVID-19, Member States are… Read more »

Africa: Strengthening the Training of Health And Care Workers to Build Resilient Health Systems

We, the member countries of the Group of Friends of the WHO Academy, reaffirm our commitment to support the WHO Academy, an essential tool for strengthening the skills and… Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the WHO Academy Opening Ceremony

Your Excellency President Macron, Read more »

Africa: Drowning Deaths Decline Globally but the Most Vulnerable Remain At Risk

The World Health Organization (WHO) publishes its first-ever report on drowning prevention, which reveals a 38% drop in the global drowning death rate since 2000--a major global… Read more »

Africa: New WHO Report Reveals Governments Deprioritizing Health Spending

The 2024 Global Heath Expenditure Report by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that the average per capita government spending on health in all country income groups fell in… Read more »

Africa: Partnership Established to Advance WHO's Road Map for Neglected Tropical Diseases 2021-2030

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund and the World Health Organization (WHO) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to further expand their partnership to… Read more »

Africa: Over 1 in 5 Adults Worldwide Has a Genital Herpes Infection – WHO

Around 846 million people aged between 15 and 49 are living with genital herpes infections – more than 1 in 5 of this age-group globally - according to new estimates r… Read more »

Africa: Reinvigorated Global Efforts Needed to Curb Rising Malaria Threat

New data from the World Health Organization (WHO) reveal that an estimated 2.2 billion cases of malaria and 12.7 million deaths have been averted since 2000, but the disease… Read more »

Africa: Partnership Established to Advance WHO's Road Map for Neglected Tropical Diseases 2021-2030

The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund and the World Health Organization (WHO) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to further expand their partnership to… Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Media Briefing - 10 December 2024

Good afternoon, and a very warm welcome to our friends from ACANU to our final media briefing for 2024. Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Remarks At the Dialogue Session From the Bandung Spirit Water Summit to the UN 2026 Water Conference

Organizers: High-level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters; the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Indonesia to the UN; World Meteorological Organization and other… Read more »

Africa: WHO Announces First Prequalification of a Tuberculosis Diagnostic Test

The World Health Organization (WHO) has granted prequalification to the molecular diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) called Xpert® MTB/RIF Ultra. It is the first test for TB… Read more »

Africa: Senegal and Rwanda Achieve WHO Maturity Level 3 in Medicines Regulation

Senegal and Rwanda have become the seventh and eighth countries in Africa to reach Maturity Level 3 (ML3) in WHO's global classification of national regulatory authorities,… Read more »

Africa: Statement of the Fortieth Meeting of the Polio Ihr Emergency Committee

The fortieth meeting of the Emergency Committee under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) on the international spread of poliovirus was convened by the WHO… Read more »

Africa: WHO Trains Policy-Makers to Enhance Health Outcomes for Refugees and Migrants

On 25 November 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) Health and Migration Department launched a training programme in Rome, Italy, which brought together policy-makers from… Read more »

Africa: International Pathogen Surveillance Network Announces First Recipients of Grants to Better Understand Disease Threats

The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners announced 10 projects that will receive almost US$ 2 million in grants to improve capacities in pathogen genomic surveillance. Read more »