Africa Health Report

WHO Pushes Self-Help Tools to Tackle Mental Health Crisis WHO launches a psychological self-help guide to expand global access to mental health services.

WHO launches a psychological self-help guide to expand global access to mental health services.

WHO Pushes Self-Help Tools to Tackle Mental Health Crisis

Oluwatobi Adu June 2, 2026

GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new implementation guide to help countries expand...

WHO Urges Nations to Lift Congo Ebola Travel Bans Health workers treating Ebola patients during the Congo outbreak response

WHO Urges Nations to Lift Congo Ebola Travel Bans

Mirian Gom May 31, 2026

BUNIA, DR Congo – The World Health Organization has warned that travel restrictions and border closures imposed...

Mental Health Crisis Deepens as Africa Faces Funding Gap Delegates at the WHO Africa mental health meeting in Johannesburg discussing healthcare funding gaps

Delegates at the WHO Africa mental health meeting in Johannesburg discussing healthcare funding gaps

Mental Health Crisis Deepens as Africa Faces Funding Gap

Oluwatobi Adu May 30, 2026

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – African countries have renewed calls for greater investment in mental health services as...

WHO Sounds Alarm Over Nicotine Pouch Surge WHO

WHO Sounds Alarm Over Nicotine Pouch Surge

Oluwatobi Adu May 30, 2026

GENEVA, Switzerland – The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that nicotine pouches are rapidly gaining popularity...

WHO Unveils DoxyPEP Strategy to Curb Rising STI Infections World Health Organization announcing new doxyPEP STI prevention guidelines

WHO Unveils DoxyPEP Strategy to Curb Rising STI Infections

Oluwatobi Adu May 28, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – The World Health Organization has issued its first global recommendation on the use of...

WHA79 Adopts Ambitious Decade-Long Plan to Curb Antimicrobial Resistance Globally Delegates at the World Health Assembly adopting the new antimicrobial resistance strategy in Geneva

Delegates at the World Health Assembly adopting the new antimicrobial resistance strategy in Geneva

WHA79 Adopts Ambitious Decade-Long Plan to Curb Antimicrobial Resistance Globally

Oluwatobi Adu May 26, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – Member States at the Seventy-Ninth World Health Assembly adopt a new Global Action Plan...

African Leaders Push Cross-Border Pact to Eliminate Malaria, NTDS African health leaders and WHO officials discussing malaria and NTD elimination strategies

African health leaders and WHO officials discussing malaria and NTD elimination strategies

African Leaders Push Cross-Border Pact to Eliminate Malaria, NTDS

Oluwatobi Adu May 26, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – African countries and global health partners intensify efforts to eliminate malaria and neglected tropical...

Gates Foundation Commits $15m Emergency Funding as Ebola Crisis Deepens in Africa NCDC intensifies Ebola surveillance and preparedness across Nigeria following outbreaks in DR Congo and Uganda while assuring no confirmed local case.

NCDC intensifies Ebola surveillance and preparedness across Nigeria following outbreaks in DR Congo and Uganda while assuring no confirmed local case.

Gates Foundation Commits $15m Emergency Funding as Ebola Crisis Deepens in Africa

Mirian Gom May 25, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – The Gates Foundation has announced an emergency funding package of $15 million to support...

Ebola Response Funding May Exceed $300m – African Leaders Warn Africa CDC Director General, Dr Jean Kaseya, and African health leaders during a high level ministerial cross border coordination meeting, held in Kampala, Uganda, 23/05/ 2026. (Photo: Africa CDC website /AHR).