WHO Regional Director for Africa

“Last year, we lost an average of 970 people every day. This is a catastrophically high toll,” - Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.

... becomes fourth African country to be validated by WHO

Health authorities in Mozambique today declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after confirming that a child in the country’s north-eastern Tete province had contracted the disease. This marks the second imported case of wild…

As the world marks the International women’s Day today, the WHO Regional Director for Africa Dr. Matshidiso Moeti said the increasing incidence of extreme weather conditions is having devastating effects on the health of women and girls.…

Fighting diabetes epidemic in Africa is in many ways as critical as the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO says

Africa is set to miss the urgent global goal of vaccinating the most vulnerable 10% of every country’s population against COVID-19 by the end of September. Forty-two of Africa’s 54 nations—nearly 80%—are set to miss the target if the…

What if a mobile phone could prevent a health epidemic? It may sound like science fiction, but the World Health Organization's (WHO) Polio Geographic Information System (GIS) Technology is doing just that in 43 countries in Africa. The…

Immunisation activities were stepped up  in many states in Nigeria  over the weekend as the country joined twelve other African nations to immunise over 116 million targeted children to tackle the last remaining stronghold of polio on the…

The World Health Organisation, Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, has arrived Nigeria on a three-day visit. The visit, according to a statement from the Federal Ministry of Health, is on the invitation of Nigerian…