In Focus
Health
This beat covers issues of people’s health, access to quality health services, public health systems, scientific advancements, and emerging health issues.
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.
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.
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.
Debt-for-Food swaps: Innovative financing for school meals in Africa
NutritionSocial Protection
On this Africa Day of School Feeding, what are some of the ways we can fund these programmes?
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Countries need to invest in research and ratify African Medicines Agency treaty to regulate manufacture of home-grown medical products.
The list of efforts countries will have to make to mitigate the pandemic impact is very long.
Dr. Rokhiatou Babio is one of the few women in her country spearheading a medical team on the COVID-19 frontline.
WHO has disbursed US$ 1.25 million to support the response in Guinea and to reinforce Ebola readiness in Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone.
Rich countries hoard available and future vaccines, as poor countries wait.
