Ethiopia handed over 24 wheelchairs to the Menagesha Cheshire Rehabilitation Center during the national commemoration of ...

The ongoing outbreak is the 16th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the disease was identified in 1976. The country’s most recent outbreak occurred in 2022 in Beni in North ...

The year 2023 holds significant importance for Liberia— from hosting the Third Global Community Health Worker’s Symposium to successfully integrating the COVID-19 Pandemic into Primary Health Care ...

On 5 May 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) received an alert regarding an unknown illness with high mortality in Mongbwalu Health Zone (HZ), Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

WHO Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) and the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) are pleased to announce the 2026–27 Call for ...

The African continent continues to face an increasingly complex landscape of public health threats driven by emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, climate and environmental change, rapid ...

These country disease status reports provide a succinct overview of disease profiles across countries in the WHO African region. The focus is on the status of key indicators for the eradication, ...

The Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has expanded to a seventh province, with the first confirmed case reported in Bulu Health Zone, Sud-Ubangi, a ...

We recorded the first case in May, a few days before the official declaration of the epidemic. By the end of May, there was ...

The Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) outbreak is becoming increasingly challenging, marked by an expanding cluster of cases ...

The Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo continued to intensify during the reporting period, with sustained transmission, increasing mortality, and ongoing ...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) comprises all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.