Yola, 20 December, 2022 - In August 2022, 31 years old Mrs Jenifer James, of Mumore community, Tongo Local Government Area in Adamawa State had just returned from the market when she developed a fever.  “It started with a headache, high temperature, body ache and later rashes all over my body,” she says in an

WCO Eritrea staff conducted in-house training on preventing and responding to sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment in the WCO Conference Hall on 2 December 2022. Staff members had an in-depth discussion on the subject and shares among themselves different examples.  Mrs. Lemlem Asfaha, the Budget and Finance Assistant and WCO focal person on PRSEAH facilitated the

Kampala - World Health Organization (WHO) has provided in-kind contributions of medical supplies worth 1,123,672 (equivalent to UGX 4.1 billion) to the Ministry of Health to address the health consequences of the drought and food insecurity affecting more than 19 districts in Karamoja, Lango and Teso regions of Uganda. The medical supplies were handed over

Borno, 15 December, 2022 - One of the 36 States in Nigeria, had been experiencing incessant power outages since 2020, leaving some locations in the state in total darkness, due to the disruption of the power grid caused by insecurity. This has hampered operations at the polio laboratory situated at the University of Maiduguri Teaching

12th December 2022, Monrovia: Liberia joined the global community in commemoration of Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day under the theme - Building the Liberia we want: A Healthy Future for All. Climaxing this important event, the country launched seven policy and strategic health documents as a demonstration of health and well-being being an essential priority

Aminata Kaoucen works as a nurse for a local NGO called Action pour le Bien-Être in Southern Niger, where she attends to refugees from neighbouring Nigeria at an integrated health centre in the Garin Kaka refugee camp. "I have worked as a humanitarian for 23 years, including three years with refugees," Aminata says in-between taking the

Ilorin, 13 December, 2022 - Akwai zafi? meaning does it hurt (in Hausa language), asks Abdulafar Ahmed, jokingly as he administered the Yellow fever vaccine to some of the children at Ruggar Budo (a nomadic) settlement in Gwaria ward of Kaiama Local Government Area (LGA), in Kwara State Nigeria.   Mr Ahmed is one of

Statistics Botswana in collaboration with the OECD's Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) and the WHO Country Office are running a three-day training programme from 12-14 December 2022 in Gaborone, entitled “Health Data Communications Bootcamp”. The bootcamp is attended by journalists, health statisticians, researchers, communications practitioners, monitoring and evaluation experts from

Abuja, 13 December, 2022 - “I recall growing up in a comfortable home and lacking nothing until my father fell ill in 2010. I was in secondary school when his sickness started.  He was a farmer and businessman who sell cocoa in Ondo state, southwest Nigeria, says Adetutu Ibironke, a mother of one residing in

Botro, Cote d'Ivoire – It is vaccination day, baby cries fill the courtyard of the Botro General Hospital, about 400 kilometres north of Abidjan. Henriette Ouattara, who gave birth a few months ago at the maternity hospital in Botro, has come to have her baby vaccinated. From prenatal consultation to delivery, Ouattara recalls, a dedicated

Addis Ababa – In late 2019, 68-year-old Meseret Belay, who lives in the Meshwalekiya neighbourhood of Ethiopia’s sprawling capital, Addis Ababa, suffered a severe stroke that left her unable to speak and paralysed on the left side of her body. Suddenly incapable of caring for herself or managing the small local diner she had run

Accra, Ghana - The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG 5 on Gender equality and SDG 10 inequalities are critically interlinked social determinants that have the potential to reverse health gains or even halt progress towards universal health coverage. The global COVID-19 response remains a sober reminder to make gender equality an integral aspect of