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In late 2019, 68-year-old Meseret Belay, who lives in the Meshwalekiya neighbourhood of Ethiopia’s sprawling capital, Addis Ababa, suffered a severe stroke that left her unable to speak and paralysed on the left side of her body.

While Africa is witnessing its lowest level of new COVID-19 cases since the onset of the pandemic, a recent four-week rise—the first such sustained increase in four months—underscores the criticality of maintaining vigilance as the end-year holiday seasons sets in.

The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in partnership with Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, West African Health Organization, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UK Health Security Agency, Robert Koch Institute and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation today kicked off the region’s largest public health emergency operation centre (PHEOC) simulation exercise to step up readiness to respond to public health emergencies, with 36 countries taking part in the two-day functional exercise.

To strengthen the capacity of women leaders in the health sector to help deliver a more robust health system in Ghana, World Health Organization (WHO) with support from United Kingdom Government through the Department of Health and Social Care (UK-DHSC) organized a capacity building for women health leaders as part of the Health Workforce Programme.