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Mobile health team sensitizing   family members on cholera prevention methods. Photocredit: WHO/CE.Onuekwe

WHO Intensifies Efforts to Contain Cholera Outbreak in Borno State

Mr Evans Liyosi, WHO South Sudan Representative a.i. addressing the community on the Cash Reward programme for reporting of Guinea Worm Disease in Tonj State. Photo WHO.

WHO and the Carter Center supports the cash reward programme for reporting of Guinea Worm Disease in Tonj State, South Sudan

 Submerged houses in Achusa settlement of Makurdi

WHO deploys Polio personnel to forestall disease outbreaks in Benue state communities affected by floods.

The WHO rapid response team training frontline health workers on malaria diagnosis and treatment. Photo WHO.

South Sudan’s malaria toll highlights disease burden in war-torn nation

Eradicating dracunculiasis

Eradicating dracunculiasis: Chad intensifies national campaign as ninth human case is confirmed

Kifa Bashir (center) in a discussion with the community leaders in Babile Woreda. Photo: WHO/Tseday Zerayacob

Looking out for Acute Watery Diarrhoea in Somali region: A day in the life of a World Health Organization (WHO) surveillance officer in Ethiopia’s Somali region

African Health Ministers pledge firm actions against yellow fever