Africa Health Report

WHO Raises Alarm Over Rising Fungal Threat, Calls for Urgent Action WHO Warns Rising Fungal Diseases and Drug Resistance Threaten Millions

WHO Raises Alarm Over Rising Fungal Threat, Calls for Urgent Action

Oluwatobi Adu June 30, 2026

GENEVA, Switzerland – The World Health Organization has raised concerns over the growing burden of fungal diseases...

Experts Push to Sustain Child Survival Gains SARMAAN Project

Experts Push to Sustain Child Survival Gains

Mirian Gom June 15, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – Health experts and policymakers have called for the institutionalisation of the SARMAAN project, warning...

From Lyon to Lagos: Can One Health Stop Africa’s Next Pandemic? Delegates attend the 2026 One Health Summit in Lyon, France, discussing disease surveillance, antimicrobial resistance, climate-related health risks and global health security.

Delegates attend the 2026 One Health Summit in Lyon, France, discussing disease surveillance, antimicrobial resistance, climate-related health risks and global health security.

From Lyon to Lagos: Can One Health Stop Africa’s Next Pandemic?

Korede Abdullah June 13, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – The next pandemic may not begin in a hospital ward. It could emerge from...

Nigeria, Denmark Seal Livestock Safety Pact Minister of Livestock Development Idi Mukhtar Maiha and Danish Ambassador Jens Ole Bach Hansen during the signing of the livestock safety pact in Abuja.

Minister of Livestock Development Idi Mukhtar Maiha and Danish Ambassador Jens Ole Bach Hansen during the signing of the livestock safety pact in Abuja.

Nigeria, Denmark Seal Livestock Safety Pact

Korede Abdullah June 8, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria and Denmark have signed a new livestock safety pact aimed at strengthening food...

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...

The Silent Siege: How Invisible Superbugs Are Rewriting Nigeria’s Public Health Future Poultry birds in a Nigerian farm illustrating antibiotic use in livestock and its link to antimicrobial resistance.

Poultry birds in a Nigerian farm illustrating antibiotic use in livestock and its link to antimicrobial resistance.

The Silent Siege: How Invisible Superbugs Are Rewriting Nigeria’s Public Health Future

Chukwu Obinna March 18, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – A Crisis Without a Sound It does not announce itself with sirens. There are...

Nigeria Tightens Antimicrobial Surveillance as Poor Data Threatens Public Health Health experts at Abuja meeting calling for increased AMR surveillance funding

Health experts at Abuja meeting calling for increased AMR surveillance funding

Nigeria Tightens Antimicrobial Surveillance as Poor Data Threatens Public Health

Chukwu Obinna February 5, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigerian health authorities are rolling out a national quality assurance framework to fix weaknesses...

Experts Urge Increased Funding to Contain Escalating Antimicrobial Resistance Threat Health experts at Abuja meeting calling for increased AMR surveillance funding

Experts Urge Increased Funding to Contain Escalating Antimicrobial Resistance Threat

Koko Maxwella December 12, 2025

ABUJA, Health experts have called for urgent and sustained funding to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Nigeria,...

NAFDAC Sounds Alarm as Antibiotic Misuse Threatens Nigeria’s Food Chain NAFDAC official speaking at antimicrobial awareness event in Lagos

NAFDAC Sounds Alarm as Antibiotic Misuse Threatens Nigeria’s Food Chain

Juliet Jacob November 23, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) warns that Nigeria...

antimicrobial resistance

WHO Raises Alarm Over Rising Fungal Threat, Calls for Urgent Action

Experts Push to Sustain Child Survival Gains

From Lyon to Lagos: Can One Health Stop Africa’s Next Pandemic?

Nigeria, Denmark Seal Livestock Safety Pact

WHO Unveils DoxyPEP Strategy to Curb Rising STI Infections

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

The Silent Siege: How Invisible Superbugs Are Rewriting Nigeria’s Public Health Future

Nigeria Tightens Antimicrobial Surveillance as Poor Data Threatens Public Health

Experts Urge Increased Funding to Contain Escalating Antimicrobial Resistance Threat

NAFDAC Sounds Alarm as Antibiotic Misuse Threatens Nigeria’s Food Chain

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