The Yellow Fever sub-national risk analysis findings dissemination workshop, and consultative and advocacy meeting was held in Addis Ababa Ethiopia on 4th October 2023. The workshop was organized by World Health Organization (WHO) Ethiopia in collaboration with Ministry of Health (MoH) and global and in-country partners.  “Today’s meeting will hopefully result in a concrete consensus

Likoma-Malawi government has today launched the National Community Health Framework (2023-2030), the “Tipewe Cholera/Covid 19” campaign and re-launched the Human Papilloma virus vaccination drive. The Ministry of Health through the Community Health Services Section and its partners have been implementing community health services as one of the strategies of attaining Universal Health Coverage by 2030.

The Regional Office for Africa (AFRO), WHO Geneva in collaboration with WHO Namibia and the Ministry of Health and Social Services conducted a training on Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Use surveillance system (GLASS) and WHONET tool in Windhoek, for 12 selected member states. The training aimed to build capacity of Member States to establish

Catarino Estêvão Fernandes Francisco, 21, is in his third year of medicine at the Private University of Angola (UPRA). He always dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon.  But the experience of working in Luanda on the national polio vaccination campaign, which ran from 8 to 11 September 2023, has given him another dream. "I want to

In the early afternoon of 9 September, Catarino Francisco is coordinating the work of 12 monitors in the urban district of Ngola Kiluanje, whose task is to monitor the level of implementation of the polio vaccination campaign to the target group of children under five years. Analysis of vaccination coverage data for bivalent oral polio

Luanda, 24th of October, 2023 ‒ In the neighborhood of Caope Velha, in the municipality of Cacuaco in Luanda, Elisa António de Melo, 70, is carrying a baby girl in her arms. She is waiting with her two granddaughters and four great-grandchildren for the polio vaccine to be administered to the children. De Melo does

Luanda, Angola – 23 October 2023. The members of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Advisory Group on Health made a field visit to the Hospital Materno Infantil Dr Manuel Pedro Azancot de Menezes in Luanda. The hospital was inaugurated on 1 June 2022, as a specialized facility to support maternal and child health services. The field

Abuja, 24 October 2023 – Nigeria today introduced the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine into its routine immunization system, aiming to reach 7.7 million girls – the largest number in a single round of HPV vaccination in the African region – in a vaccination drive against the virus that causes nearly all cases of cervical cancer. 

Dodoma - The World Health Organization, Tanzania, has reiterated its commitment to support Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) which includes non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based associations (CBAs) and faith-based organizations (FBOs) to advance public health outcomes especially among the under-served and vulnerable populations. At the 2023 Annual NGO Forum which was supported by WHO with funding from

On 19th October 2023, Luanda: WHO Angola marked another step in its continuous effort to strengthen health systems in Angola with the delivery of technological material to the Studies, Planning and Statistics Office (GEPE) at the Ministry of Health with support from the European Union (EU). A total of six laptops were donated to GEPE.

Benguela, 16 October 2023: To guarantee access to quality medicines and improve drug assistance to the population, Angola has been carrying out a series of initiatives that include the creation and approval of policies that guide pharmacovigilance, strengthening the supervision of the sale and consumption of medicines, as well as the implementation of the system

On October 10, 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) South Africa attended the World Mental Health Day (WMHD) commemoration hosted by the National Department of Health. The event took place at Madadeni Hospital in Newcastle within the KwaZulu-Natal Province to mark World Mental Health Day. The primary objective was to foster community unity under the theme