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Ensuring primary health services for displaced people

South Sudan: Ensuring primary health services for displaced people

Juba ‒ Cecilia Achuwor, a 38-year-old mother of six children, is one…
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African health ministers, partners urge equitable access to critical tools to curb cervical cancer threat

African health ministers, partners urge equitable access to critical tools to curb cervical cancer threat

Brazzaville – Inequitable access to vaccines and high-performance…
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Sample collected from the Glen Valley Wastewater Treatment Plant

Strengthening Polio Surveillance: Risk Assessment following Detection of Circulating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus type 2

Environmental Surveillance (ES) was introduced in August 2022 to…
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Intensifying efforts to end TB

South Africa: Intensifying efforts to end TB

Pretoria – One night in September 2023, 21-year-old university…
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First-ever delivery of mpox vaccines in Africa outside of clinical trials arrives in Nigeria 

First-ever delivery of mpox vaccines in Africa outside of clinical trials arrives in Nigeria

Abuja/Brazzaville – Nigeria today received 10 000 doses of mpox…
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Antenatal visits improve maternal health outcomes in Togo

Antenatal visits improve maternal health outcomes in Togo

Sokodé –​​​​ In Togo, the health landscape is characterized by…
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La Guinée Équatoriale intensifie le dépistage pour éradiquer la tuberculose

Equatorial Guinea steps up screening to eradicate tuberculosis

Malabo ‒ Equatorial Guinea has made remarkable progress in its fight…
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Sénégal : faire des structures de santé des lieux sûrs pour les patients

Senegal: transforming health facilities into safe places for clients

Dakar – ​​​​In Senegal, as in most countries in the African region,…
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Participantes at the Cha de Ideias

Mental Health: A right for all

The Angolan Ministry of Health, through the Mental Health and…
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Burundi : une approche communautaire pour interrompre la transmission du VIH de la mère à l’enfant

Burundi adopts community-based approach to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Bujumbura – “It’s unacceptable that in 2024, children are still born…
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