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Lieutenant (Dr) Boie Jalloh

Getting ready for Africa’s next major health emergency

It was August 2014 and Lieutenant (Dr) Boie Jalloh was in the second week of his medical internship at the 34th Military Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The capital city had just recorded its first cases of Ebola and despite his inexperience, the 30-year old doctor was instructed to work in the hospital’s makeshift Ebola treatment unit.
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Urgent action needed to tackle the double burden of malnutrition and to achieve Universal Health Coverage and Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

Urgent action needed to tackle the double burden of malnutrition and to achieve Universal Health Coverage and Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

Nairobi, April 17, 2018 – Under nutrition, obesity and diet-related noncommunicable diseases are leading to catastrophic costs to individuals, to communities an

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Dr Charles Byabamazima (left, from WHO) updating Ms Thandie Kgosiesele (right, MoHW Deputy Permanent Secretary and Director of Clinical Services) on the result of the review for Accreditation

Botswana Excels in the 2018 National Measles Laboratory Review For Accreditation

Gaborone, Botswana

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A child being vaccinated against rotavirus

New data from Africa allays fears of bowel obstruction from rotavirus vaccine

Brazzaville 18 April 2018 - An evaluation carried out by the World Health Organization (WHO), US Centre for Disease Control (CDC), and country partners shows th

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Group photograph of participants of the workshop

Workshop to tackle substandard and falsified medical products in Africa opens in Lagos, Nigeria.

Lagos, 18th April, 2018 - A Regional Workshop with participants from 38 African countries and supported by World Health Organization (WHO) on the Global Surveil

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Dr. Desta A. Tiruneh delivering a statement.

Gambia Celebrates World Health Day 2018: Marking the 70th Anniversary of the World Health Organization

 

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Two children receive OCV on the first day of the campaign in Lilongwe_edited

Malawi administers Oral Cholera Vaccine to over 500,000 people in Lilongwe Urban

The Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) campaign started in Lilongwe on 17 April 2018. The vaccine is being administered from 17 to 21 April and is targeting all people that are over one year and living in urban and semi urban areas of Lilongwe city where the cholera outbreak is still active. These areas are within the catchment areas of the following health facilities: Area 18, Kawale, Area 25, African Bible College, St Kizito, Chimwala, Bwaila and Likuni. A total of 500,000 people are expected to receive OCV.
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MDSR investigations take place in some of the most remote communities in Sierra Leone

Making every life count: Investigating a maternal death in Sierra Leone

FREETOWN, April 16, 2018 - Sister Hannah B. Palmer pulls on her boots, getting ready to set out on the latest field-level investigation of 2018.

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