African region’s first-ever health workforce investment charter launched
With a bold target of halving the African region’s critical 6.1-million health workforce shortage by 2030, the African Health Workforce Investment Charter will …
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USAID, WHO & partners provide life-saving health services crisis-affected communities in South Sudan
Over a year since the start of the Sudan crisis, refugees and returnees continue to enter South Sudan. Many grapple with difficult living conditions and heal…
Message from the World Health Organization Liberia Representative on the polio vaccination campaign in Liberia
Message from the World Health Organization Liberia Representative, Dr. Clement Peter. Together, let's kick polio out of Liberia.
WHO AFRO has worked with governments & partners on the African health workforce investment charter
In the African region, efforts to improve health and well-being are bearing fruit. Healthy life expectancy has increased from 45 to 55 years. Mortality among…
Zambia conducts vaccination campaign as part of multisectoral cholera outbreak response
Zambia’s recent cholera outbreak demanded urgent action and oral cholera vaccination was a key aspect of Zambia’s multisectoral outbreak response. Of the 1.8…
One-stop shop boosts the fight against TB/HIV co-infection in Niger
Niger is making great strides in the fight against tuberculosis and HIV, thanks to the one-stop-shop strategy implemented with support from WHO. This approac…
Health champion: Albert Nkhoma, Zambia
During his 30 years as a community-based volunteer, Albert Nkhoma has witnessed his neighbourhood, Kalikiliki, in Zambia’s capital city Lusaka, grapple with pub…
Everyone has the right to health
Health is a fundamental human right, not a privilege. Every human being is entitled to affordable and quality healthcare services regardless of their location o…