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Geo-tracking system enhances polio response in Congo

Basic emergency care saving lives in Ghana

Ghana has embarked on an initiative to reinforce the skills and capacity of health workers to provide basic emergency health services in low-resource settings.

Supporting Tanzania’s Marburg survivors

Soon after Tanzania confirmed its first case of Marburg Virus Disease in February 2023, outbreak control measures were rolled out rapidly, with the country drawing on outbreak readiness capacity built up and reinforced in recent months. The efforts by the national health authorities, health workers and communities helped to end the outbreak in just around three months.

High-quality cold chain protects polio vaccines for Mozambique’s children

Maputo – Delivering polio vaccines to every district of the African Region is a complex undertaking, as national authorities and health partners fighting polio in Mozambique know only too well. But with support from Worl…

In Chad, mobile clinics bring COVID-19 vaccination to vulnerable groups

In the health district of Baga Sola in Chad’s western Lake province, mobile clinics have played a pivotal role in ensuring that the country’s most vulnerable populations can access COVID-19 vaccines. 

Community health workers lead the fight against malaria in Rwanda

Over the past seven years, Rwanda has significantly reduced the burden of malaria, with the infection rate dropping from 409 cases per 1000 people in 2016 to just 76 cases per 1000 people in 2022. Malaria deaths also fell by more than 89% over the same period.

Ghana steps up drive to revamp routine immunization

As immunization levels fell in over 100 countries worldwide between 2019 and 2021, in the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccinations in three decades, Ghana was not spared.

Reaching vulnerable populations in Kenya’s cholera outbreak

Since October 2022, Kenya’s arid northern region has been affected by a cholera outbreak triggered by the impact of a prolonged and severe drought. The country has recorded more than 7800 cases and 122 deaths as of 26 March 2023.