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WHO and Mercy Ships sign collaborative agreement to strengthen surgical care in Africa

WHO and Mercy Ships sign collaborative agreement to strengthen surgical care in Africa

Efforts to improve surgery and anesthesia services in Africa is gaining momentum following the signing of a collaborative agreement between the World Health Organization in the African Region and Mercy Ships. The agreement aims to increase access to surgical care, and build capacity of health workers to strengthen surgical care delivery systems.

Participants at the meeting in Livingstone

WHO convenes a meeting for pilot testing of the 3rd edition of the Technical Guidelines for Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR)

Zambia is one of the three countries that have been selected for piloting the 3rd edition of the Technical Guidelines for Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) for

African Health Ministers commit to ending cholera outbreaks by 2030

African Health Ministers commit to ending cholera outbreaks by 2030

African Health Ministers pledge to implement key strategies to end cholera outbreaks by 2030.

Group picture of participants of the Regional Committee

President Macky Sall of Senegal urges African leaders to prioritise investment in health: Regional Committee for Africa gets underway in Dakar, Senegal

Dakar, Senegal, 27 August 2019 – President Macky Sall of Senegal has urged African countries to invest more resources into health to address the health challeng

Kenyan health workers in a march to create awareness about the need to immunize children against polio

Kenya in determined effort to keep polio virus at bay

Kenya remains determined to keep the country free of the polio virus following a finding of a circulating vaccine-derived polio virus in an environmental water sample in Nairobi

Participants of the health walk

Hundreds take part in Health walk to commemorate WHO’s 70th anniversary

Senegal commemorates the 70th anniversary of the creation of WHO with a “Walk the Talk” event which also helped raise awareness of the risk of non-communicable diseases.

The Deputy Minister for Health Mainland emphasizing a point during the meeting.

Tanzania charts the roadmap for implementation of the World Health Assembly resolutions

The Permanent Secretary for Health, Dr Mpoki Ulisubisya receiving the items from the WHO Representative, Dr. Adiele Onyeze

WHO provides medicines and equipment for Ebola preparedness and control of Malaria & Neglected Tropical Diseases in Tanzania