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Africa rallies new financing models to shield communities from climate-driven health crises
Africa rallies new financing models to shield communities from climate-driven health crises
Sustaining efforts to end mpox outbreaks in Africa
Sustaining efforts to end mpox outbreaks in Africa
Improving access to maternal health care in Burkina Faso
Improving access to maternal health care in Burkina Faso
Improving access to maternal health care in Burkina Faso
Improving access to maternal health care in Burkina Faso

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Cholera Response in Congo: Mbamou Island Breathes Again
Cholera Response in Congo: Mbamou Island Breathes Again
World Humanitarian Day: Nurse Abidine in Mauritania’s Mbera refugee camp carries hope every day
World Humanitarian Day: Nurse Abidine in Mauritania’s Mbera refugee camp carries hope every day
Advancing access to sexual and reproductive health services in South Sudan
Advancing access to sexual and reproductive health services in South Sudan
Tackling mpox through GOARN support and local collaboration in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Tackling mpox through global and local collaboration in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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RDT testing for COVID-19
Southern Africa faces uptick in COVID-19 cases
WHO delivers assorted lifesaving medical supplies to Mayom County in the Greater Unity Region to support flood affected communities.
WHO takes health care services directly to South Sudan’s flood-affected communities in Mayom County
A health worker gives medication to a patient. Kenya has embarked on a extensive evidence-based approach to root out TB
Kenya embarks on new approach to prioritize future TB actions

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Events

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Establishment of the WHO African Region Technical Advisory Group for HIV, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections (AFTAG-HTH) : Call for Experts 2025/June/208

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2nd International Conference on PEN-Plus in Africa (ICPPA 2025)

5 June 2025

The Mwele Malecela Mentorship Programme – Cohort II

23 January 2025

Accreditation of Non-State actors: call for applications to participate in the WHO R...

30 November 2024