Kampala, Uganda - In 2025, Uganda confirmed 66 separate measles outbreaks across the country, with a cluster of deaths in an ...
African leaders, health ministers, regional institutions and global health partners have adopted the New York Call to Action ...
For more than 24 hours, a safe and dignified burial of an Ebola case was delayed in Mutumbi, 25 kilometres outside Bunia, in ...
Regional Office for Africa is advancing the digital transformation of public health delivery with the launch of the DIGIT ...
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 ...
Ghana is taking steps to strengthen its capacity to conduct and oversee high-quality clinical trials, following an assessment ...
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 ...
Community Perceptions of Safe and Dignified Burials in the DRC. A recent Community Insights analysis of Safe and Dignified ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...