Africa: Governments Continue Discussions On Pandemic Agreement Negotiating Text

Governments continued their work to negotiate and draft an agreement to strengthen global pandemic prevention, preparedness and response to prevent a repeat of the health, social… Read more »

Africa: WHO Releases Guidelines On Chronic Low Back Pain

The World Health Organization (WHO) is releasing its first-ever guidelines on managing chronic low back pain (LBP) in primary and community care settings, listing interventions for… Read more »

Africa: Global Partners Pledge U.S.$ 777 Million to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases

In a historic effort to combat neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and improve the lives of 1.6 billion people globally, partners pledged a ground-breaking US$ 777 million at the… Read more »

Africa: GCF, UNDP and WHO Join Forces to Ramp Up Climate Health Support for Developing Countries

The Green Climate Fund (GCF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have launched an ambitious new initiative that will ramp up… Read more »

Africa: Diethylene Glycol (Deg) and Ethylene Glycol (Eg) Contamination - Analytical Methods Developed for Testing Paediatric Medicines

Since October 2022, the Word Health Organization (WHO) has issued six global medical product alerts for over-the-counter medicines contaminated with DEG/EG. The first substandard… Read more »

Africa: WHO Celebrates the Role of Communities in Driving Progress Towards Ending AIDS

For World AIDS Day, marked on 1 December, the World Health Organization (WHO) is joining international partners to acknowledge the resilience, dedication and innovation exemplified… Read more »

Africa: WHO's Annual Malaria Report Spotlights the Growing Threat of Climate Change

Despite strides in expanding access to insecticide-treated nets and medicines to help prevent malaria in young children and pregnant women, more people were getting sick with… Read more »

Africa: Health Needs to Be Front and Centre of National Plans to Fight Climate Change

Ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-28), WHO has published its "2023 review of health in nationally determined contributions and long-term strategies" highlighting the… Read more »

Africa: Malaria Vaccine is Here - 'The World Needs Good News - And This is a Good News Story'

Shipments of the world's first WHO-recommended malaria vaccine, RTS,S, have begun with 331 200 doses landing last night in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The delivery is the first to a… Read more »

Africa: WHO Issues New and Updated Recommendations on Treatment of Mental, Neurological and Substance Use Conditions

The World Health Organization (WHO) has today published the third edition of the Mental Health Gap Action Programme (mhGAP) guideline which includes important new, and updated,… Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Closing Remarks At the Global Food Security Summit - Towards Zero Hunger and Ending Malnutrition - 20 November 2023

Thank you, Minister Mitchell. Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Global Food Security Summit - Towards Zero Hunger and Ending Malnutrition 'Session One: Creating New Approaches to Ending Preventable Deaths of Children'organizers: UK Fcdo - 20 November 2023

The Right Honourable the Deputy Prime Minister Salah Ahmed Jama, Read more »

Africa: WHO Leads Very High-Risk Joint Humanitarian Mission to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza

Editors Note: The first African Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, an Ethiopian public health researcher and expert in immunology… Read more »

Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Marking the Third Year of the Cervical Cancer Elimination Effort Event - 17 November 2023

Distinguished guests, dear colleagues, and friends, Read more »

Africa: Global Partners Cheer Progress Towards Eliminating Cervical Cancer and Underline Challenges

World leaders, cervical cancer survivors, advocates, partners, and civil society are coming together today to mark the third Cervical Cancer Elimination Day of Action. The… Read more »

Africa: WHO Costing and Budgeting Tool for National Action Plans On Antimicrobial Resistance - Catalysing Collaboration in South Sudan

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Africa: WHO Costing and Budgeting Tool for National Action Plans On Antimicrobial Resistance - Catalysing Collaboration in the United Republic of Tanzania

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Africa: WHO Unveils 5-Year Plan to Fight TB in Children and Adolescents

Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the third edition of the Roadmap towards ending TB in children and adolescents, along with partners and civil society. The… Read more »

Africa: Quitting Smoking Cuts Your Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes by 30–40%

A new brief, jointly developed by WHO, the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the University of Newcastle, unveils that quitting smoking can lower the risk of developing… Read more »

Africa: National Stakeholder Workshop for Piloting the WHO Global Guidance Framework for the Responsible Use of the Life Science in Uganda

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Africa: WHO, Unicef, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Pass the Mid-Point of the Global 10-Year Strategy to Eliminate Yellow Fever Epidemics

The Eliminate Yellow fever Epidemics (EYE) Strategy - a partnership led by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance - launches a report following… Read more »

Africa: TB Response Recovering From Pandemic but Accelerated Efforts Needed to Meet New Targets - WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) 2023 Global tuberculosis (TB) report underscores a significant worldwide recovery in the scale-up of TB diagnosis and treatment services in… Read more »

Africa: More Than 800 Delegates Convene to Discuss Local Production to Support Access to Medicines and Other Health Technologies

The World Local Production Forum (WLPF) is a WHO initiative providing Member States and the global community with a sustainable platform to shape the strategy, galvanize collective… Read more »

Africa: Cholera Upsurge (2021-Present)

After decades of progress against cholera, cases are again on the rise, even in countries that had not seen the disease in years. Read more »

Chad: Chad Reports Its First Dengue Outbreak

Situation at a Glance Read more »