African leaders, health ministers, regional institutions and global health partners have adopted the New York Call to Action ...

Regional Office for Africa is advancing the digital transformation of public health delivery with the launch of the DIGIT ...

For more than 24 hours, a safe and dignified burial of an Ebola case was delayed in Mutumbi, 25 kilometres outside Bunia, in ...

Cameroon held a WHO-supported workshop on tobacco tax policy analysis and modelling, bringing together government ministries, customs, taxation and civil society to strengthen evidence-based fiscal ...

Namibia has completed nationwide public consultations on its Draft Tobacco Products Control (Amendment) Bill, a key step toward strengthening regulation of tobacco and nicotine products. WHO AFRO ...

Ghana is taking steps to strengthen its capacity to conduct and oversee high-quality clinical trials, following an assessment ...

The burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) is increasing rapidly across the African Region, posing a significant threat to health systems, economic development, and population well-being.

When residents in Birim North District began reporting an unusually high number of deaths among pigs, the reports did not remain at community level. They triggered investigations involving the Ghana ...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 22– A team of experts led by the Regulation and Prequalification Department at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters conducted a technical assistance visit to the ...

When 32-year-old Shafa’atu Isyaku noticed that her 4-year-old daughter, Maimuna, could not move her left leg, she took her to a primary health care centre in Kano State, north western Nigeria.“I was ...

In just three months, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo grew to become the country’s largest on ...

The World Health Organization (WHO), through the Pandemic Fund Project, has handed over ICT and media equipment valued at GHS 258,000 to the School of Public Health of the University of Ghana to ...