The World Health Organization (WHO) has donated cholera kits and medical supplies to the Ministry of Health in Malawi to step up its cholera outbreak response. The WHO country representative for Malawi Dr Neema Rusibamayila Kimambo made the official handover of the supplies worth over USD190,000 to the Minister of Health Honorable Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda

By Vivian Mugarisi Despite proven impact of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) on maternal, new-born, child, and adolescent health outcomes, underfunding of SRHR issues persists. Significant proportion of the population particularly adolescent girls and young people do not have access to adequate SRHR services. For most countries in Africa, this has been mainly

Living with mental illness has been a harrowing ordeal for Safiatu Kondeh. The 34-year-old, who lives in Kabala, northern Sierra Leone, with her mother and two children, has had to endure conditions almost worse than the disease. Starvation, abuse, shackles, homelessness, and a series of costly yet ineffective traditional remedies were Safiatu’s daily realities for

Abuja – The African region has made significant strides in the fight against polio, reaching a monumental achievement in August 2020 when the region was certified as free of indigenous wild polio after eliminating all forms of wild poliovirus. Professor Tunji Funsho, chair of Rotary’s Nigeria National PolioPlus Committee, discusses the milestones and challenges in

Accra – Six-month-old Sefadzi Akorli from Adaklu in Ghana’s Volta Region is among millions of children receiving the vaccine against polio variant type 2 this month.  Kafui, Sefadzi´s mother, knows the value of vaccines and is happy her son is now protected against polio: “Vaccination has really helped our children to remain healthy, especially those

Lichinga, Mozambique – It is the last day of polio vaccination campaign in Niassa, a province in northern Mozambique, and a mobile vaccination team headed by health worker Celina Miguel is going house-to-house in a small village. The team has just come up against a refusal. “They want to give my child an illness, an

The Ministry of Health in Uganda in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) organized a guided tour for development partners to the Entebbe and Mulago Ebola Treatment Units (ETU) to assess the state and operation of the centers. The guided tour involved officials from the Ministry of Health, WHO, and Ambassadors from the different

Brazzaville – COVID-19 vaccination coverage has stagnated in half of African countries, while the number of doses administered monthly declined by over 50% between July and September, a World Health Organization (WHO) analysis finds. Although Africa is far from reaching the year-end global target of protecting 70% of the population, modest progress has been made

Accra - Mental, neurological and substance use disorders account for more than 10% of the global disease burden. The lost productivity resulting from depression and anxiety, two of the most common mental disorders, cost the global economy US$ 1 trillion each year. In low- and middle-income countries, more than 75% of people with mental disorders receive

Sob o lema “Desafios globais. Acções globais. Histórias de resiliência”, iniciamos esta semana as celebrações para o Dia das Nações-Unidas (24 de outubro). Nesse sentido, queríamos contar-lhes a história de Aissatu, parteira que teve coragem, resiliência e humanidade para ajudar no primeiro parto de uma paciente com Covid-19 na Guiné-Bissau. Maio de 2020, o número

Abuja, 18 October, 2022 - Living at the Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs) camp in Damagaza in Abuja, 20- years old Anifa Tsani, a mother of one, is glad she can now make informed choices on her sexual and reproductive health. She started living in the camp at a very young age and married into the

Addis Ababa, October 2022 –The District Health Information System, software version 2 (DHIS2) training is ongoing in 507 woredas of Ethiopia to reach a total of 1,553 participants in 58 sessions. The training aims to digitalize and improve the collection, quality and use of COVID-19 vaccination data.  WHO is currently supporting this training technically and