The Integrated Service Delivery (ISD) and Primary Health Care (PHC) unit provides oversight of the WHO Regional Office for Africa’s work on the adoption of integrated people-centred health services, in line with the primary health care approach, for attaining universal health coverage (UHC), the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and other country-level health targets.

Typhoid fever is a bacterial disease, caused by Salmonella typhi. Symptoms usually develop 1 to 3 weeks after exposure, and may be mild or severe. They include high fever, malaise, headache, constipation or diarrhoea, rose-coloured spots on the chest, and an enlarged spleen and liver.