Seychelles takes the lead as the first country in the African Region to adapt and validate the WHO/AFRO’s 3rd Edition Integrated Diseases Surveillance and Response (IDSR) Technical Guidelines
Seychelles, 30th August 2019 - Every year, countries in the African Region report over 100 infectious disease outbreaks and other public health emergencies. The frequency and magnitude of outbreaks in the region continues to increase and no country including the Seychelles is spared from these risks.
Buruli ulcer: An infectious disease thriving in unsanitary environments
António Bélio, Nutrition Supervisor, DPS in Sofala
António Bélio is a Nutrition Supervisor, responsible for Nutrition at Sofala Provincial Health Directorate (DPS).
“We need participatory and engaging development of an emergency response plan, as well as resource mobilization before the disaster.”
01. What is the current situation about Pellagra and malnutrition (chronic and acute) in Sofala Province?
The WHO Africa Gates Tobacco Control Project Review Meeting kicked off in Kigali
Kigali, 27th August 2019: The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Rwanda, is organizing in Kigali, a three days’ workshop, from 27th to 29th August 2019, on WHO Africa Gates Tobacco Control Project Review in the African Region. The participants are focal points for Tobacco control in the Ministries of Health and WHO Country Offices from countries supported by the Gates Tobacco Control Project whose current phase of Project is Phase 3 which commenced on 6th April 2017 and will end in 2020.
Health leaders see urgency of better coordination among partners for delivering universal health coverage in Africa
African health ministers agree to an all-fronts push to control the rise in vector-borne diseases
Dr Josephine Namboze, the new WR to Botswana, presents her Credentials to the Honourable Minister of International Affairs and Cooperation
Gaborone, Botswana - 22 August 2019: This morning, the new World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative to Botswana, Dr Josephine Namboze, presented her credentials to the Minister of International Affairs and Cooperation, Honourable Dr Unity Dow.
WHO supports Cross River State in administering polio vaccines to Cameroonian refugees
Cross River, 22 August 2019 - Following the 2016 crisis in the South West and North West Anglophone regions of Cameroon, a large number of asylum seekers fled into neighboring villages in Cross River State Nigeria for safety. The asylum seekers mainly came from Akwaya, Otu, Eyumojock, Nsan, Dadi and Bodam villages. The World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting the state to reach more refugees against Polio.
Restoring people’s trust in medical facilities an essential prescription for achieving universal health coverage
22 August, Brazzaville - Populations across the 47 Member States of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) African Region only utilize an average 48% of their available health services. But only an average 34% of those same populations even has access to essential services. And health systems in those countries only perform, on average, at 49% of their possible level of functionality.
The WHO universal health coverage agenda seeks to diminish these gaps by strengthening district and local health systems in their delivery of services to all people.
WHO and Africa CDC agree on joint actions to improve health security in Africa
