1. WHO Africa
  2. Health topics
Community health mobilizers on the frontlines of Angola’s COVID-19 response

Community health mobilizers on the frontlines of Angola’s COVID-19 response

Luanda – Gildo Sereia walks purposefully through the streets of…
Read more »
Polio eradication expertise backs Africa’s COVID-19 response

Polio eradication expertise backs Africa’s COVID-19 response

Brazzaville – Expertise in polio eradication that has put Africa…
Read more »
COVID_19 Update Rwanda

Update COVID-19 02 June 2020

02 June 2020 — Seven (7) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of…
Read more »
COVID_19 Update Rwanda

Update COVID-19 03 June 2020

03 June 2020 — Thirteen (13) new COVID-19 cases were identified out…
Read more »
WFP and WHO officials engaging the Airport Authorities at the Lungi International Airport

First UN COVID-19 humanitarian flight commences operations to Sierra Leone to ease transportation of critical medical supplies

Joint WFP-WHO News Release Freetown, 2 June 2020 - The first United…
Read more »
COVID_19 Update Rwanda

Update COVID-19 31 May 2020

31 May 2020 — Eleven (11) new CoVID_19 cases were identified out of…
Read more »
WHO AFRO Logo

New Ebola outbreak detected in northwest Democratic Republic of the Congo; WHO surge team supporting the response

Geneva/Brazzaville/Kinshasa - The Government of the Democratic…
Read more »
The last cigarette: Tanzanian’s resolve to quit

The last cigarette: Tanzanian’s resolve to quit

Dar es Salaam – Four months ago, Musa Adonicus Sambala declared…
Read more »
Youth advocate in Kenya’s tobacco control drive

Youth advocate in Kenya’s tobacco control drive

Nairobi – Much earlier in her life, Martha Kombe, now 24, watched…
Read more »
Antismoking activist helping to kick the habit in Mauritania

Antismoking activist helping to kick the habit in Mauritania

Nouakchott – Twenty-one-year-old university student Sidi Bolle…
Read more »