African leaders, health ministers, regional institutions and global health partners have adopted the New York Call to Action ...
Africa’s borders cut across communities, ecosystems, markets and transport networks. A country can hold strong national preparedness and remain exposed if its border districts are disconnected.
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 ...
For more than 24 hours, a safe and dignified burial of an Ebola case was delayed in Mutumbi, 25 kilometres outside Bunia, in ...
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, ...
Community Perceptions of Safe and Dignified Burials in the DRC. A recent Community Insights analysis of Safe and Dignified ...
Ghana is taking steps to strengthen its capacity to conduct and oversee high-quality clinical trials, following an assessment ...
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 ...
The Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) outbreak remains active, with ongoing transmission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and one imported case reported in France in a physician returning from the ...
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 ...
On 5 May 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) received an alert regarding an unknown illness with high mortality in Mongbwalu Health Zone (HZ), Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo ...