1. WHO Africa
  2. Health topics
The future of public health response is here: WHO summit explains the lives it will save

The future of public health response is here: WHO summit explains the lives it will save

It was the tenth outbreak for its neighbour, but it was the closest…
Read more »
Dr. Djamila Cabral WHO Representative in Mozambique

WHO Mozambique thanks donors for supporting health access to 1 million people in cyclone-affected areas from acute to recovery phases

MAPUTO – 8 October 2019 As the health response to cyclones Idai and…
Read more »
Dr Matshidiso Moeti

430 days and 1000 victories in the fight against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Statement from Dr Matshidiso Moeti Today, amid our unrelenting work…
Read more »
Kasereka Miyisa Jophet is an Ebola survivor from Butembo. Credit: UNEERO/Martine Perret

1000 Ebola survivors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

  JOINT PRESS RELEASE BY THE EERC, WHO, WFP, UNICEF and SAVE…
Read more »
Claude MABOWA, a successful baccalaureate candidate and Ebola survivor

Surviving Ebola and passing final school exams while in treatment isolation: Now bring on the future

Days before the most important exams of his life – the exams that…
Read more »
Dear parents and neighbours – A young mother tells her story of Ebola denial and then gratitude for treatment

Dear parents and neighbours – A young mother tells her story of Ebola denial and then gratitude for treatment

When 33-year-old Kanyere Vwatire first left a health facility, it was…
Read more »
Photo: WHO/Kisimir Jonh Shim

An emergency vaccination point for children offers a mother relief against measles in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

As her bus approached the town of Masi Manimba, Rosette Mboma heard a…
Read more »
Photo: WHO/Kisimir Jonh Shim

A doctor takes you to the tough and joy-filled days in the Ebola battle in Goma

Since December 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other…
Read more »
Photo: WHO/Kisimir Jonh Shim

WHO and partners launch emergency vaccination campaign to help contain world’s largest measles outbreak

With the world’s largest and fastest-moving measles epidemic…
Read more »
Benediction, suffering from Cholera, & his mother (GOMA), Photo: WHO/Savage S.

​Ebola, cholera and measles: Triple threats to the poorest communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kasika is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in Goma, the largest…
Read more »