Lesotho News

Message of WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti                       

The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health challenges the world has ever faced, killing more than eight million people around the world every year. While the number of people using tobacco products is decreasing in other parts of the world, it is rising in the Africa Region.

To strengthen public health surveillance in Lesotho using a network of expert systems for early detection of health threats, the World Health Organization recently conducted a training on Epidemic Intelligence from Open Sources (EIOS) for over 20 health specialists from the Food and Agricultural Organisation, (FAO)the Ministr

In line with its goal to achieve Universal Health Coverage, the World Health Organization (WHO) has urged the Government of Lesotho to refocus its efforts on prioritizing investment in government-funded public health functions and investing in primary health care.

Message from WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti

Maseru – A multidisciplinary team of four experts from WHO-AFRO, the South African National Bioinformatics Institute, and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD South Africa) has arrived in Lesotho on a mission to assess the country’s readiness to launch the implementation of pathogen genomic surveillance, starting with SARS-CoV 2 genomic surveillance. This follows an earlier mission in December 2021 to conduct a countrywide situational analysis.

WCO Lesotho held a one-day dialogue with private health service actors with the ultimate objective to strengthen health systems in Lesotho through the Access to COVID19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-A) programme.

The ACT-A programme funded by the Canadian government is a novel initiative that brings together governments, scientists, businesses, civil society, philanthropists and global health organisations to address COVID-19 challenges and help protect everyone from the virus and its impact.