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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
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Viral Facts Africa initiative to combat dangerous health misinformation

High childbirth mortality in Malawi is due to “a cocktail of factors

12, 000 births, zero deaths: Malawians celebrate hero midwife Charity Salima

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-- She also raises awareness about the dangers of teenage pregnancy

Malaria vaccine being prepared.

Historic funding to expand roll-out of first-ever malaria vaccine in Africa

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Heathcare workers reading pamplet.

In Africa, 63% jump in diseases spread from animals to people seen in last decade

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Paul Pitia Alberto, 45, a clinical nurse in Mangalla.

Africa steps up targeted COVID-19 vaccination of most at risk people

COVID-19 Vaccine
Ugandan healthcare worker on motorcycle with megaphone.

COVID-19 deaths in African region to fall by nearly 94% in 2022

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World Health Organization analysis is based on new modelling

Southern Africa faces uptick in COVID-19 cases

Southern Africa faces uptick in COVID-19 cases

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Although cases have risen, hospitalization in South Africa remains low

Studies reveal emerging resistance to first–line treatments

Are antimalarial drugs still effective?

Malaria

Studies reveal emerging resistance to first–line treatments

Community health volunteers attending to Delourice.

The allies protecting pregnant women from malaria in Africa

Malaria

Community health workers take a leading role in preventing and treating the killer disease

Over 1 million African children protected by first malaria vaccine

Over 1 million African children protected by first malaria vaccine

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Ahead of World Malaria Day (25 April), WHO calls for continued innovation to save lives.

Composite photo of three people, a woman at left, and two men to the right.

New UN-MultiChoice campaign to help fight COVID-19 fatigue

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‘Together We Can’ by MultiChoice Talent Factory (MTF) alumni shares a public-service announcement (PSA) on safety protocols

Health workers receiving members of the public for TB screening in Uganda.

Africa’s fight against TB: the gains and the challenges

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What is hindering Africa’s efforts to eradicate tuberculosis?

A health worker prepares to administer COVID-19 vaccines.

Africa’s COVID-19 vaccine uptake increases by 15%

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Around 62 million doses were administered across the continent in February up from 54 million in January.

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