13 March 2025
Date for Commemoration: 7 April 2025
Where: Katima Mulilo, Zambezi Region
Main Speakers: Minister of Health and Social Services and WHO Representative
World Health Day is commemorated annually on 7 April to mark the anniversary of the founding of World Health Organization (WHO) in 1948. This year the commemoration will be hosted in the Zambezi Region under the theme’ Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures’.
This year’s commemoration will kick off a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn health drawing attention to the urgent need to intensify efforts to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths, and to prioritize women’s longer-term health and well-being.