African health ministers take steps to curb Ebola disease outbreak
Nigeria expands genomic sequencing intervention beyond COVID-19
Osun, 11 October, 2022 - Given that genomic sequencing technology enhanced the fight against COVID-19 globally, Nigeria is working on a strategy to integrate other infectious diseases into the genomic surveillance in the country.
Living with schizophrenia -An individual’s story
Abuja, 11 October, 2022 - Dr Chieshi was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1990
Having been diagnosed with schizophrenia at the university in 1990, Dr Terver Simon Chieshi had to suspend school for a year to seek medical treatment.
He recalled that being a final-year medical student coming to terms with the diagnosis was not easy.
Are you okay? - A message from the World Health Organization Rwanda on Mental Health Day
Tanzania holds its first-ever national mental health dialogue
There is no health, without mental health! – was a call made during the first-ever national mental health dialogue held today in Dar es Salaam in commemorating the World Mental Health Day 2022.
Walking the Talk for mental well-being
Dar es Salaam, Dodoma & Zanzibar: In promoting mental well-being and partnerships for health, the WHO Tanzania Country Office team organized its second Walk the Talk event this time including the WHO sub-offices in Dodoma and Zanzibar.
Ministry of Health, WHO and USAID strengthen protection of Health Workers During the Ebola Outbreak Response in Uganda
Kampala - The Ministry of Health in Uganda has received from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the World Health Organization (WHO), an assorted set of supplies to constitute three Viral Haemorrhagic Fever (VHF) Kits to enhance the protection of health workers responding to the Ebola outbreak.
In Nigeria, health workers learn how to help women facing gender-based violence
Borno, 7 Ocotber, 2022 – Like many health workers across the Sahel, Mairama Baba Yadafa has been witnessing first-hand the multiple impacts of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis that has gripped the region: drought has hunger soaring amid deepening deprivation and suffering by millions of people affected by armed violence.
Reversing suicide, mental health crisis in Africa