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As the African region marks one year since the last confirmed detection of wild poliovirus type 1, Ministers of Health and other health leaders gathering for the Seventy-third session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional…

The Republic of Botswana and the World Health Organization yesterday announced designation of the Botswana National HIV Reference Laboratory as a WHO Collaborating Centre, which will enable deeper collaboration with WHO in advancing the…

There was a palpable excitement in Nigeria’s health sector as a renowned  global health expert, Prof Ali Muhammad Pate, and a US-based nephrologist, Dr. Tunji Alausa formerly assumed duties as the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social…

African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has urged critical stakeholders on the continent to support the bank’s  Africa Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation (APTF). The AfDB president, Dr Akinwumi Adesina,…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has validated Benin and Mali as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, making them the fifth and sixth countries in WHO’s African Region to achieve this significant milestone. Countries…

A Press statement from the organization says Nearly 1.5 million children at high risk of illness and death from malaria in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have now received their first dose of the first malaria vaccine, RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S), thanks…

Africa CDC revised the framework and developed additional resources to guide the establishment and implementation of event-based surveillance using a multi-sectoral One Health approach.

Kenya’s Ministry of Health has announced that it will expand the use of the world’s first malaria vaccine, RTS,S/AS01 (or RTS,S), in the country.

Malawi launches national “End Cholera” campaign Africa is witnessing an exponential rise in cholera cases amid a global surge. Cases recorded on the continent in the first month of 2023 alone have already risen by more than 30%…

Symptoms including fever, fatigue and blood-stained vomit and diarrhoea have been reported