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COVID-19 cases surge in Africa, near first wave peak COVID-19 cases in Africa are surging by over 20% week-on-week as…

As COVID-19 cases in Africa rise for the third week running and vaccines are increasingly scarce, 47 of Africa’s 54…

Uganda Marks Global Road Safety Week Damba Rogers Uganda has joined the rest of the world in marking the 6th…

Greta Thunberg, climate and environment activist, joins World Health Organization’s call for vaccine equity Greta Thunberg, the climate and environment activist,…

Today, Ghana became the first country outside India to receive COVID-19 vaccine doses shipped via the COVAX Facility. This is…

Brazzaville – While the development and approval of safe and effective vaccines less than a year after the emergence of COVID-19 is…

The World Health Organization (WHO) today listed the Comirnaty COVID-19 mRNA vaccine for emergency use, making the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine the…

WHO Launches Year-Long Campaign to Help 100 Million People Quit Tobacco WHO today launches a year-long global campaign for World…

AWHO appoints co-chairs of Independent Commission on sexual misconduct during the Ebola response in North Kivu and Ituri, the Democratic…

WHO to investigate allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Geneva…

The World Health Organization’s first global report on sepsis finds that the effort to tackle millions of deaths and disabilities due to…

In WHO global pulse survey, 90% of countries report disruptions to essential health services since COVID-19 pandemic​ The World Health…

Ebola outbreak in western Democratic Republic of the Congo reaches 100 cases The number of cases in the ongoing Ebola…

As schools worldwide struggle with the reopening, the latest data from the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) reveal that 43 percent…

 DR Congo Ebola Cases Rise, Surpass Previous Outbreak The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) Equateur…