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Bolstering Africa’s health emergency readiness and response

Bolstering Africa’s health emergency readiness and response

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.

Providing critical health and hygiene services to Mozambique’s conflict-affected communities

Providing critical health and hygiene services to Mozambique’s conflict-affected communities

Celestina Ceverano lives in Ntocota, a village in Metuge District in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado Province, which has been ravaged by armed violence since October 2017.

Honorable Othman Masoud, the First Vice President of Zanzibar, giving polio vaccine drops

Zanzibar successfully rolls out final round of polio vaccines

Zanzibar - In a bid to maximize protection of the population from outbreaks using scarce resources, Zanzibar has successfully piggy

South Sudan develops the next health sector strategic plan 2023-2027

South Sudan develops the next Health Sector Strategic Plan 2023-2027

2 December 2022, Juba - Strategic and operational planning are important for translating the National Health Policy Vision and Goals into actionable interventio

Asio Sarah, the aunt of Akwii's, cooking meal in her home in Kapelebyong

Managing HIV In The Midst Of A Health Emergency

Akwii Magdalena is a seven-year-old girl enrolled in a primary school class in Kapelebyong District from the Karamoja Region of Uganda.

UN staff came together to host a booth to showcase the UN contribution to fighting HIV/AIDS

Tanzania commemorates World AIDS Day

Lindi Region - The World AIDS Day was commemorated nationally in Tanzania on the 1st of December 2022 with calls to end the HIV epidemic by 2030 by equalizing a

Africa’s advances in maternal, infant mortality face setbacks: WHO report

Africa’s advances in maternal, infant mortality face setbacks: WHO report

A slowdown in the progress made during the past decade against maternal and infant mortality is projected in the African region, a new World Health Organization (WHO) report released today finds.

Comoros on the path to ending mother-to-child HIV transmission

Comoros on the path to ending mother-to-child HIV transmission

Nadja* was in the midst of planning her wedding two years ago when she learned that she was HIV-positive.