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Advancing Africa’s cross-border collaboration through AI-assisted health emergency preparedness

African leaders, health ministers, regional institutions and global health partners have adopted the New York Call to Action ...
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Reconciling Ebola response and community needs to prevent transmission

For more than 24 hours, a safe and dignified burial of an Ebola case was delayed in Mutumbi, 25 kilometres outside Bunia, in ...
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Cameroon Strengthens Capacity for Tobacco Tax Reform to Protect Health and Mobilize Domestic Resources with the support of WHO AFRO

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 ...
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WHO AFRO Supports Namibia's Journey Toward Comprehensive Regulation of Tobacco and Nicotine Products

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 ...
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Ghana advances clinical trial capabilities

Ghana is taking steps to strengthen its capacity to conduct and oversee high-quality clinical trials, following an assessment ...
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Nigeria strengthens surveillance to protect children from polio

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 ...
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Safe care protects people living with NCDs every day

As the world marks World Patient Safety Day 2026, World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for safer care for people living with noncommunicable diseases. In Nigeria, strengthening health systems, ...
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Caring for children with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

In just three months, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo grew to become the country’s largest on ...
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WHO strengthens public health capacity at University of Ghana

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 ...
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BVD Safe and Dignified Burials (SDB) Community Perceptions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Community Perceptions of Safe and Dignified Burials in the DRC. A recent Community Insights analysis of Safe and Dignified ...
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Ethiopia achieves historic WHO verification of national Emergency Medical Team, becoming first civilian EMT in Africa to attain international classification

Ethiopia has achieved a major milestone in strengthening national health emergency preparedness and response following the successful World Health Organization (WHO) verification of its National ...
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WHO, African editors to create road safety media guidelines for the continent: Landmark media forum aims to drive demand for proven road safety policies

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) will today open a first-of-its-kind African media forum on road safety, aimed at kick-starting the ...