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 ...
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 ...
Ghana is taking steps to strengthen its capacity to conduct and oversee high-quality clinical trials, following an assessment ...
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 ...
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 ...
In just three months, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo grew to become the country’s largest on ...
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 ...
Around 30 participants and experts from Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean Region, and Europe gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for a four-day workshop designed to strengthen multidisciplinary ...
For Dr Aminatu Makarfi Umar, a gynaecologist in Kaduna State, HIV prevention should be part of routine care for women who may benefit from it.“Every pregnant woman at increased risk of HIV deserves to ...