Dakar – More than 80 experts from 19 African countries work together in Dakar to improve the quality, consistency and use of polio surveillance and outbreak response data, a critical step toward strengthening disease det…
Read moreMongbwalu, Democratic Republic of the Congo—In a small laboratory at Mongbwalu General Referral Hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's north-eastern Ituri Province, tabletop diagnostic devices hum faintly. Rolled out soon after the declaration of the Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak, the machines have drastically reduced testing times, enabling faster, life-saving action to stop the spread of the virus.
Read morePraia, Cabo Verde. As part of efforts to strengthen the partnership between the World Health Organization (WHO) and China, the WHO team in Cabo Verde paid a visit to the Chinese Ambassador in the country on 29 May to ali…
Read moreJohannesburg — Mental health experts, policymakers, civil society organizations and partners from more than twenty African countries, meeting for the first-ever mental health intercountry meeting, have called for st…
Read morePraia, Cabo Verde. With the aim of creating a learning platform to facilitate the exchange of experiences between countries and partners, gather lessons learnt, and support the development of future strategies to strengt…
Read moreBrazzaville, Kampala, Lomé—The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa, in collaboration with ministries of health, partner hospitals, and with support from Irish Aid, organized a series of regional tr…
Read moreGeneva, Switzerland – During the Interministerial Meeting on Polio in the Horn of Africa and Yemen, held on the sidelines of the Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly (WHA79) on 20 May 2026, countries reaffirmed their comm…
Read moreThe World Health Organization (WHO) is rapidly scaling up support to the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo following confirmation of an outbreak of Ebola Bundibugyo in the country’s north-eastern Ituri Province.
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