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This beat covers issues of people’s health, access to quality health services, public health systems, scientific advancements, and emerging health issues.

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Doing more with less: Reimagining health in Africa amid global funding cuts

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A Village Health Worker holds a pack of oral contraceptives at a health facility in Mokhotlong, where community-based distribution plays a vital role in improving access to family planning services.
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Lesotho’s Family Planning Revolution: A quiet success the world should notice

health How Lesotho transformed Family Planning access through community action, commitment, and resilience.
The World Health Organization (WHO) certified Egypt as ‘malaria-free’, marking a significant public health milestone for a country with more than 100 million inhabitants.
Health

World Malaria Day marked with renewed zeal to end the disease

In 2025, the WHO and partners campaign called ‘Malaria Ends with Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite,’ seeks to re-energize efforts at all levels to accelerate the elimination of malaria. Egypt is a good example.
Students harvest cabbage in the restive North Kivu, DRC, where many WFP-supported school meal programs also encourage communities to grow vegetables to supplement their diets.
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In crisis-hit parts of Africa, WFP school meals offer a vital lifeline to kids - and their families

WFPSocial Protection As African governments mark a decade of progress on school feeding, the push is on to get more children on board.

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School meals provide essential safety nets for poor children and their families.
Health

Debt-for-Food swaps: Innovative financing for school meals in Africa

A woman.
Health

Skyrocketing healthcare costs in Africa driving families into poverty

People wait in the midday sun for the water troughs
Health

Horn of Africa: Climate-related health crisis worsens as disease outbreaks surge

Viral Facts Africa initiative to combat dangerous health misinformation
Health

Viral Facts Africa initiative to combat dangerous health misinformation

School meals provide essential safety nets for poor children and their families.

Debt-for-Food swaps: Innovative financing for school meals in Africa

NutritionSocial ProtectionOn this Africa Day of School Feeding, what are some of the ways we can fund these programmes?
A woman.

Skyrocketing healthcare costs in Africa driving families into poverty

Social ProtectionA new report by WHO Africa office says costly out-of-pocket treatments affect over 200 million people on the continent, pushing 150 million into destitution.
Fresh vegetables.

Laying foundation for digital revolution in Africa’s food systems

agricultureFood SecurityThe Africa Agriculture Status Report says digital technologies will address inefficiency, exclusivity, and unsustainability.
First WHO report details devastating impact of hypertension and ways to stop it.

First WHO report details devastating impact of hypertension and ways to stop it

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A baby is tested for malaria in a village in Chad.

Tackling emerging anti-malarial drug resistance in Africa

Malariaantimalarial drug resistanceWHO has launched a new strategy to respond to the urgent problem of antimalarial drug resistance in Africa. The report ‘Strategy to Respond to Anti-malarial Drug Resistance in Africa’ (here), is being released during  this World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, a global annual campaign to improve awareness of the growing threat of resistance to antibiotics and other medicines.
People wait in the midday sun for the water troughs

Horn of Africa: Climate-related health crisis worsens as disease outbreaks surge

Horn of AfricahealthSeven countries in the region recorded 39 reported outbreaks, flooding and other acute public health events between 1 January and 30 October 2022

How TB infections, deaths increased during COVID-19 pandemic

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Ongoing conflicts in Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East have further exacerbated the situation for vulnerable populations

COVID-19 vaccination roll-out stagnates in Africa

COVID-19 vaccination roll-out stagnates in Africa

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WHO is bolstering the Ebola disease outbreak response in Uganda.

WHO supports Uganda Ebola response, faces challenges fighting Haiti cholera outbreak

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African health ministers take steps to curb Ebola disease outbreak

African health ministers take steps to curb Ebola disease outbreak

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Reversing suicide, mental health crisis in Africa

Reversing suicide, mental health crisis in Africa

Mental HealthSuicide in Africa

Launched ahead of World Mental Health Day on 10 October, campaign aims to reach 10 million people, galvanize support to increase focus and funding for mental health efforts.

This rise is greater than in any other region of the world during the same period.

Healthy life expectancy in Africa rises by almost ten years

Life Expectancy

The sharp rise during the past two decades is a testament to the region’s drive for improved health and well-being of the population.

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