WHO’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Projects to roll out in Tanzania
Tanzania is among the priority countries benefitting from the implementation of World Health Organization Emergency Preparedness and Response projects that aim to promote multisectoral convergence of resources and skills for rapid and efficient response to a disaster.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo declares 14th Ebola outbreak over
Reaching nomadic communities with COVID-19 vaccines in Manyara
As the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 disease enters the third day in Manyara region, Tanzania, WHO is providing intensified technical and financial support to the region to ensure that no one is left behind in the critical campaign. WHO has moved a step further to avert inequity among intended populations for the exercise especially the nomadic populations.
Climate change has direct consequences for the key determinants of health
In the African Region, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are set to overtake communicable diseases, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional conditions combined, to become the leading cause of death by 2030. COVID-19, along with spiralling obesity, diabetes and hypertension rates, compounds the challenge, highlighting the urgency of a multi-sectoral response.
Zambia receives 4,500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Canada
Today 950,350 doses of COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Zambia. This consignment is the first shipment of a total of 4.5 million doses of Johnson and Johnson’s Janssen vaccine donated by the Government of Canada through the COVAX facility.
These vaccines have been procured and delivered by UNICEF’s Supply Division, which leads the procurement and supply of COVID-19 vaccines across the world. The vaccine doses were handed over to the Ministry of Health by Jenny Hill, the Head of Office of Canada’s Office of the High Commission in Zambia.
WHO intensifies response to looming health crisis in the greater Horn of Africa as food insecurity worsens
The health risks in the region are increasing, while access to health care is deteriorating
Bolstering monkeypox laboratory testing in Africa
WHO responds to a Cholera outbreak in Katavi Region
Katavi, 29 June 2022 - The World Health Organization has provided technical assistance and critical supplies in response to a cholera outbreak in Katavi Region, in north-western Tanzania.
Angola strengthens partnerships to accelerate primary health coverage
Luanda, June 29, 2022 – The Ministry of Health (MINSA) and its strategic partners, today in Luanda, defined a regular cooperation mechanism for the coordination of initiatives and information sharing, aimed at strengthening primary health care and reaching of the Sustainable Development Goals.