Outsourcing the health of the African people to foreign taxpayers is quite risky.Many countries in Africa can be self dependent.International solidarity is still needed for a few countries but even there an exit strategy is essential.

For the first time ever, at #WHA78, Member States adopted a landmark resolution declaring rare diseases a global health priority. The Resolution recognizes that over 300 million people globally live with one of more than 7000 rare diseases. apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_f…

.World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance are sounding the alarm! 🚨 Vaccine preventable diseases are making a comeback with #measles at the forefront, a significant threat to children’s health across Asia and the Pacific. Read the WHO-UNICEF-Gavi joint media release: bit.ly/43zU3PY

Sidi Ould Tah elected ninth president of the African Development Bank Group. More details to follow. #AfDBAM2025

Check out the recently published @UICC #CervicalCancer Advocacy Handbook which provides civil society organizations with practical recommendations for building coalitions, and creating adaptable messaging to promote policy change and enhance #HPV vaccination💉Access link below👇

Thank you, Dr. HananBalkhyحنان بلخي, for your inspiring leadership and deep commitment to transforming health across the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean region. We're proud to partner in efforts to #EndPolio, #EndMalaria, #EndTB, and advance #HealthForAll.

Today, Prof. Mohamed Janabi officially assumes office as WHO African Region Regional Director. He will lead World Health Organization (WHO)’s work to advance #HealthForAll across 47 countries in the African Region. Learn more about him: afro.who.int/regional-direc…

This is my third visit to Afghanistan since assuming my role as Regional Director for WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean. Every time I am humbled by the tireless work of WHO Afghanistan and our partners. Between January and May 2025: 🔹852K+ people received consultations in WHO-supported PHC facilities

Congratulations, Dr. Ayoade Alakija @yodifiji.bsky.social! #AntimicrobialResistance is an acute worldwide threat to the health of all. We welcome #Nigeria’s commitment to tackle it and look forward to working together.

18 of the 20 countries with the highest burden of cervical cancer are in Africa. To eliminate cervical cancer by 2030, WHO recommends: ✅ 90% of girls under 15 vaccinated against HPV ✅ 70% of eligible women screened ✅ 90% of women diagnosed with cervical cancer receive

Last week I welcomed the distinguished team and colleagues from المركز الخليجي للوقاية من الأمراض و مكافحتها working with us to close critical gaps in health systems and disrupted essential services across the Region. Amidst new and growing challenges - political instability, conflict, climate change, and economic

⚠️ 1.3 million people acquired HIV in 2024 alone, including thousands of adolescent girls and young women. Today, in a landmark move towards HIV prevention, WHO recommends twice-yearly injectable lenacapavir as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to protect people at risk of HIV.

The Eastern Mediterranean Regional Health Alliance #RHA was convened this week bringing together United Nations agencies, World Bank and @Gavi to accelerate action on maternal, newborn and #childhealth, and to discuss progress and challenges for achieving the final push toward polio

Amnesty International This is the genocide the US and its allies can live with because it’s quiet, procedural, and done in stages — with “tactical pauses”. The death of a baby by starvation is slower but no less genocidal.

⚠️: The R21/Matrix-M vaccine for malaria in Uganda is a protein-based vaccination rather than an mRNA vaccine. The WHO has prequalified it as safe and effective in lowering childhood malarial sickness and mortality. There's no data to substantiate claims of cancer or uselessness.

In 1999, Alfred Kakisingi founded l'Association des Diabétiques du Congo (ADIC) with no office, no funding, and only a small network of volunteers. They were driven by the belief that a person with diabetes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) deserves the same care and

Cholera can be eliminated in Africa. A new continental plan, backed by strong political leadership, sets the path to a #CholeraFreeAfrica. This one-minute video highlights the plan’s goals 🔗 Full briefing: ow.ly/H60b50WOvwV #AfricaCDC #PressBriefing

At the #RC75AFRO side event on #PENPlus and Women’s Integrated #Cancer Services (#WICS), health leaders and partners spotlighted powerful, integrated #NCD models—real solutions driving equity, resilience, and better care across Africa. Watch the highlight here👇

Through active surveillance, health worker training, and free treatment, São Tomé and Príncipe aims to eliminate leprosy transmission by 2030. Watch 👇🏿

🌐 Meet the health ministers speaking at #WHS2025   Health ministers from across the globe alongside other leaders from politics, science, the private sector, and civil society will come together at the World Health Summit 2025 in Berlin to address the most urgent challenges in