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Health

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

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.
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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.
School meals provide essential safety nets for poor children and their families.
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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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School meals provide essential safety nets for poor children and their families.
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Debt-for-Food swaps: Innovative financing for school meals in Africa

A woman.
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Skyrocketing healthcare costs in Africa driving families into poverty

People wait in the midday sun for the water troughs
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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

Army Spc. Angel Laureano holds a vial of the COVID-19 vaccine. Photo: Lisa Ferdinando

Why AU should push for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines

AfricaCoronavirus VaccineAccess requires global solidarity, shared technology and waiver of Intellectual Property rules.
Raphael Salanga at Nkhunga Health Centre in Nkhotakota District, Malawi. Photo: Homeline Medi

Community Health Workers: The Unsung Heroes in Africa’s COVID-19 response

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Mariam Traoré (right) and other CHWs in Africa are a critical link between their communities and the primary-healthcare system, especially during COVID-19.

Ms. Phyllis Omido on the left, one of the lead poisoning victims, and her lawyer at the Mombasa ...

Kenyan coastal community defeats lead polluter in court

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3,000 slum dwellers affected by lead poisoning awarded $12 million, but clean up pending.

Joseph Gabayo

We are not giving up hope

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— Joseph Gabayo, Ambulance Driver (Botswana).

Winnie Byanyima (Left), UNAIDS Executive Director.

Fighting HIV and AIDS in times of COVID-19

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— Winnie Byanyima, UNAIDS Executive Director

WHO urges African countries to ramp up readiness for COVID-19 vaccination drive.

COVID-19: Urgent call for sustainable healthcare reforms in Africa

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Dr. Saria Osman El-Amin

Let’s stay vigilant, COVID-19 is still here

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— Dr. Saria Osman El-Amin (Sudan)

Dr. Lafortune Essama

I’m helping fight COVID-19 in Cameroon

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— Dr. Lafortune Essama

Together with the Ministry of Health, UNICEF is leading the Risk Communication efforts in South ...

United Nations Secretary-General calls for individual action to combat misinformation

People around the world urged to #PledgetoPause before sharing online

Home Health Promoter Eliaba Anthony Amba (right) speaks with Bennet Khamis.

South Sudan: Community health promoters bring essential services to rural homes

Eliaba Anthony Amba, with support from Amref Health Africa, educates people on essential health practices such as handwashing, as well as immunization and maternal health.

Health workers in the DRC put on gloves on before checking patients at the hospital.

Public financing for health in Africa: 15% of an elephant is not 15% of a chicken

Dr. Nkechi Olalere and Ms. Agnes Gatome-Munyua on the African Union's 2001 Abuja Declaration on funding national health budgets.

COVID-19 halting crucial mental health services in Africa, WHO survey.

COVID-19 halting crucial mental health services in Africa, WHO survey

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