Making health services a safe place for women: Uganda steps up to support women subjected to violence

A Training of the Trainers session on strengthening the health sector's response to violence against women in Uganda. Participants learn how to improve their referral plans by learning about the difficulties survivors face when being referred to various services.
In 2015, WHO worked with the Ministry of Health to update its national gender-based violence training manual. This manual is now used alongside WHO’s clinical and policy guidelines and its clinical handbook on responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence in weeklong workshops to train health care providers, community leaders and workers in the judicial system on how to deliver services to survivors of violence.

Visiting Ghana delegation impressed by a Health Promoting School!

Guidance and Counselling teacher explaining elevatated vegetable garden plots

Gaborone, BOTSWANA - 24 November 2017: A seven person delegation from Ghana is in Botswana to benchmark on Health Promotion and Health in All Policies. The weeklong visit has seen them engage with the Ministry of Health and Wellness where they learnt about the structure and functions of the Health Promotion and Education Division within the context of the Ministry and in collaboration with other sectors. They also toured a national exhibition of Poverty Eradication projects under the Office of the President.

Statement on the Second Ministry of Health Directors’ meeting on Taking Forward the Regional Framework for Strengthening Health Systems for UHC and SDGs

Leave no one behind - framework of actions for strengthening health systems for UHC and the SDGs in Africa
The second meeting of Directors of Policy and Planning and of Public Health Programs from the Ministries of Health of 27 countries gathered in Kintele, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, from 22nd to 24th November 2017, to deliberate on how to take forward the Regional Actions Framework on strengthening health systems for UHC and SDGs. They worked along with the WHO technical staff from the Health Systems and Services Cluster at all the three WHO levels as well as staff from other Clusters at the Regional Office;

Monitoring the efficacy of antimalarial medicines in Tanzania

Therapeutic efficacy studies involve microscopic examinations of blood films

Tanga, 17-22 November 2017: The advent of Artemisinin Based Combination Therapies (ACTs) since 2001 as first-line treatment for uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria has had a major impact in the steady reduction of the disease in endemic countries where it has been adopted alongside other interventions such as the use of Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Nets (LLINs), Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) and Rapid Diagnos

Promoting Interagency Collaboration to Ensure Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Development in Ethiopia

R to L Dr Akpaka Kalu, Representative to WHO Ethiopia in his address and Dr Mebratu Meles, State Minister to Ministry of Industry
A meeting on an interagency framework of collaboration for implementation of the National Strategy and Plan of Action for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Development in Ethiopia (NSPA-Pharma) was conducted in Addis Ababa from 14-15 November, 2017. The meeting was co-organized by WHO in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry and Ministry of Health and attended by various national & international organizations including UN agencies, international development partners, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Health Ethiopia and other stakeholders working in the area.

Political will and evidence-based action to end TB in the African Region a must – WHO Regional Director for Africa

Dr Moeti delivering her speech at the first WHO Global Ministerial Conference on ending TB in the sustainable development era

23 November 2017 - World Health Organization (WHO) Africa Regional Director, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti recently attended the first WHO Global Ministerial Conference on ending TB in the sustainable development era – November 16 to 17, in Moscow, Russian Federation the Conference was aimed at accelerating the implementation of the “End TB strategy” by ensuing national and global commitments, deliverables and accountability. It was jointly organized by Russia’s Ministry of Health and WHO.

WHO in collaboration with the Ministry of Health established water quality control testing hub within the National Public Health Laboratory to guide water safety management and prevent water-borne diseases in South Sudan

Mr Alex Freeman, handing over the water quality testing kit to the national public health laboratory technician in charge for water quality and safety testing.

Juba, 21 November 2017:  The conflict coupled with the country's worsening economic crisis have more than doubled the cost of delivering water, sanitation and hygiene services. Lack of access to clean water and sanitation is a public health concern in South Sudan.  

World Antibiotics Awareness Week in Tanzania

Media training during the WAAW

Dar es Salaam, 13-19 November 2017 - This year, the United Republic of Tanzania joined the world to commemorate World Antibiotics Awareness Week (WAAW) aimed to raise awareness of the urgent need to act on antibiotic resistance and the steps to be taken. The theme is “Seek advice from a qualified health professional before taking antibiotics”.

Antibiotics are medicines used to prevent and treat bacterial infections in humans and animals.