African Traditional Medicine Day 2012
Each year, since 2003, the African Region commemorates on 31 August the African Traditional Medicine Day. The theme for this year’s 10th edition is African Trad…
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World Health Day 2016: Beat diabetes
The number of people living with diabetes has almost quadrupled since 1980 to 422 million adults, with most living in developing countries. Factors driving this…
Seeing is believing WHO & Ministry of Health in Uganda Production on onchocerciasis control in Uganda
Onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, is a disease caused by infection with the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus. Symptoms include severe itching, bu…
WHO@70: achievements and challenges
For seven decades the World Health Organization has been working with partners to improve global public health. This video presents key statistics highlighting …
Tackling a measles outbreak in Sierra Leone
In early July, more than 197,000 children aged between 6 months and 15 years were vaccinated against measles in a targeted immunization campaign in Ko…
The work of WHO Health Emergencies Programme in the African Region
In October 2017, less than 2 years of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, about 30 outbreaks occurred in the WHO African Region. A dozen recorded humanitarian cr…
Mother and Child University Hospital of the Jeanne Ebori Foundation
Within the context of the Third Inter-ministerial Conference on Health and Environment in Africa (IMCHE3), which is being held in Libreville from 6 to 9 Novembe…