June 23, 2023
Africa: Multilateral Development Banks and WHO Launch New Investment Platform to Strengthen Primary Healthcare 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 21, 2023
Africa: Formation of the Quadripartite Technical Group On the Economics of Antimicrobial Resistance
The Quadripartite organizations, made up of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Health… Read more »
June 20, 2023
Africa: Global Congress Opens to Counter Harmful Marketing of Formula Milk
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) are hosting the first Global Congress on the implementation of the International Code of… Read more »
June 14, 2023
Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Small Island Developing States (Sids) Ministerial Conference On NCDs and Mental Health - 14 June 2023
Your Excellency Minister Jerome Walcott, Read more »
June 13, 2023
Africa: Frontline Health Facilities Faltering Without Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Electricity - WHO, Unicef New Report
Worldwide, millions of lives could be saved and billions in economic losses prevented through one simple, affordable intervention: water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services in… Read more »
Africa: Training to Build Community Capacity to Meaningfully Engage in Mpox Response
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox (previously monkeypox) a public health emergency of international concern in July 2022. Globally, 87 858 confirmed mpox cases have… Read more »
Africa: IOC and WHO Launch Let's Move Campaign On Olympic Day to Inspire and Enable the World to Move for Better Health
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has today announced a new global initiative to inspire and enable the world to move more every day. Led by Olympians and created in… Read more »
June 12, 2023
Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Global Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme Partners' Meeting - 12 June 2023
Excellencies, dear colleagues and friends, Read more »
June 08, 2023
Africa: Marburg Virus Disease Outbreak in Equatorial Guinea
On 13 February 2023, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Equatorial Guinea declared an outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) after suspected viral haemorrhagic fever… Read more »
Africa: Stakeholders Meet in WHO to Review Progress Towards Elimination of Human African Trypanosomiasis
Responsible officers in health ministries of endemic countries, research groups developing new tools, implementing partners and public and private donors met on 7-9 June at WHO… Read more »
Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Media Briefing - 8 June 2023
Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, Read more »
Africa: WHO and the Global Fund Announce Commitment for Enhanced Collaboration
Today the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) signed a new and revised Strategic Framework for… Read more »
June 06, 2023
Africa: Empowering Adolescents to Lead Change Using Health Data
The health and wellbeing of adolescents play a critical role in their overall growth and development. However, the lack of comprehensive local data on adolescent health,… Read more »
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 »
June 05, 2023
Africa: Immediate Kangaroo Mother Care Reduces Risk of Sepsis for Babies Born Early or Small
Immediate kangaroo mother care (KMC) reduces risk of sepsis among very small and sick preterm babies, according to a new analysis published in the medical journal,… Read more »
June 02, 2023
Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At the Media Briefing - 2 June 2023
Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, Read more »
Africa: World Health Assembly Recognizes WHO's Work On PRSEAH, Calls for Continued Action
WHO Member States at the Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly discussed, on 25 May 2023, progress made on the Organization's work on the Prevention of sexual exploitation, abuse and… Read more »
May 29, 2023
Africa: 76th World Health Assembly Adopts First Ever Resolution On Drowning Prevention
Today the 76th World Health Assembly adopted its first ever resolution on drowning prevention requesting governments and their partners, in collaboration with the World Health… Read more »
May 26, 2023
Africa: WHO Urges Governments to Stop Subsidizing Life-Threatening Tobacco Crops
On World No Tobacco Day, WHO urges governments to stop subsidizing tobacco farming and support more sustainable crops that could feed millions. Read more »
May 23, 2023
Africa: Landmark Report Charts Route for Reorienting Economies to Deliver Health for All
In the first-ever report of its kind, the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All has outlined a bold new path to reorient economies to deliver what matters - health for… Read more »
Africa: South African Opera Star Pretty Yende Appointed As WHO Goodwill Ambassadors for Arts and Health
The World Health Organization (WHO) is delighted to announce the appointment of internationally acclaimed artists Renée Fleming and Pretty Yende as Goodwill Ambassadors for… Read more »
May 21, 2023
Africa: WHO Director-General's Opening Remarks At WHO Walk the Talk - the Health for All Challenge - 21 May 2023
Your Excellency Mauro Poggia, President of the Grand Council of the Republic and Canton of Geneva; Read more »
May 19, 2023
Africa: Urgent Action Needed to Tackle Stalled Progress On Health-Related Sustainable Development Goals
WHO is releasing the 2023 edition of its annual World Health Statistics report with new figures on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic and the latest statistics on progress towards the… Read more »
May 17, 2023
Africa: High-Level Resource Mobilization Conference to Eliminate Viral Hepatitis
The Hepatitis Fund and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) will partner on the inaugural Global Hepatitis Resource Mobilization Conference taking place in Geneva on 17 May… Read more »
May 16, 2023
Mali: WHO Congratulates Benin and Mali for Eliminating Trachoma As a Public Health Problem
WHO has validated Benin and Mali as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making them the fifth and sixth countries in WHO's African Region to achieve this… Read more »
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