Science in service of health: WHO and CSIR explore collaboration for AfricaPretoria, South Africa. A visit by WHO Regional Director for Africa Professor Mohamed Janabi to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Researc…
Read morePretoria | 7 June 2026 On World Food Safety Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), join South Africa and the global community in recognising t…
Read moreFive tobacco control champions from the WHO African Region have been recognized at the 2026 World No Tobacco Day Awards for outstanding work in policy, research, and advocacy. The awardees — from South Africa, Liberia, Burkina Faso, and Nigeria — reflect the Region’s growing leadership in countering nicotine and tobacco addiction.
Read moreJohannesburg — Mental health experts, policymakers, civil society organizations and partners from more than twenty African countries, meeting for the first-ever mental health intercountry meeting, have called for st…
Read moreDriven to End Malaria: Now We Can. Now We Must.25 April 2026, Pretoria | On this World Malaria Day, the World Health Organization in South Africa, joins the Department of Health reaffirming a shared commitment to end mal…
Read moreIn the far north-east of South Africa, malaria once returned quietly with every rainy season. Communities in border areas of KwaZulu-Natal, close to Mozambique and Eswatini, faced recurring fever, illness and uncertainty…
Read morePretoria, 19 March 2026 — South Africa’s National Department of Health jointly with World Health Organization Country Office in South Africa convened partners to launch the inaugural edition of the Health Financing Progr…
Read morePretoria, South Africa — 20 February 2026, The World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office in South Africa, together with the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, convened an expert policy stakeholders’ ro…
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