Global leaders and health experts seek ways to strengthen African health services, deliver more effective health security and make progress towards achieving universal health coverage.
Read moreWhen rebel fighting flared in South Sudan in 2013, two years after the country gained independence, hospitals were suddenly overwhelmed with patients with gunshot wounds across Juba in desperate need of blood.
Read moreThe bilateral ties between World Health Organization (WHO) Secretariat in the African Region and Republic of Congo have been given a significant boost. This follows a 2-day meeting in Brazzaville, Congo between senior officials from both WHO Regional office for Africa and the Congolese Government.
Read moreBrazzaville, Congo, 07 March 2019 – A two-day briefing for new Ministers of Health in the WHO African Region, has ended today in Brazzaville, Congo. Ministers of health from Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire a…
Read moreMidwife Viola putting on her gloves Viola James became interested in midwifery as a teenager, after assisting her aunt, a traditional birth attendant, with births. Now fully trained, she provides better care than unsk…
Read moreAngelina Bakhit recovers after giving birth to her son, Mayen, by caesarean section at Wau Teaching Hospital.
Read moreWHO announces 30 finalists in its first-ever Innovation Challenge from a field of more than 2 400 entries. More than a third of the submissions came from women.
Read moreEvery year, hundreds of thousands of seasonal workers from across northern Ethiopia make the trek to work the farmlands of the West Gondar area, but are typically unaware of the localised risk of Leishmaniasis there.
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