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Responding to communicable and noncommunicable diseases: progress report 2020-2022

World Health Organization WHO (2023) C_WHO

Significant progress has been made in the eradication of three priority diseases in the African Region, as a result of extensive collaboration between the Regional Office, WHO country offices and countries. For example, in August 2020, the region was certified free of wild poliovirus. In the area of ... more

Leveraging health infrastructure to optimize HPV vaccination for adolescents in Zambia: Protocol for an implementation study

Miti, S.; Shato, T.; Asante, C. et al. (2023) CC

PLoS ONE 18(5): e0285031. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285031 The study aims to integrate HPV vaccination into routine care in adolescent HIV clinics. To achieve success, we will co-design a package of implementation strategies using a previously successful implementation research approach ... more

Country Office Annual Report 2022 Namibia-Update on the context and situation of children

UNICEF (2022) C_UNICEF

In 2022, Namibia had an estimated population of 2.6 million people, where 51 per cent per cent are females and 52.5 per cent of households in urban areas, with fast-growing urban informal settlements which lack access to basic services. Namibia has a young population; 42 per cent are children (0-17 ... more

Rebuilding Liberia's Health System- WCO-Liberia Annual Report 2022

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

Rebuilding Liberia’s health system is crucial for improving the country’s overall health outcomes. This annual report highlights key achievements, challenges,and lessons learned in implementing programmes of technical cooperation with the Government of Liberia from January to December 2022. T ... more

Urinary Tract Infections in Infants and Children in Developing Countries in the Context of IMCI

World Health Organization (2005)

Closing the immunisation gap in Ethiopia: a formative evaluation of ‘The Fifth Child Project’

Shiferaw Dechasa Demissie, et al. International Rescue Committee, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Assosa Referral Hospital (2019) C1

Independent Monitoring Board of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (Fifteenth Report: December 2017)

Global Polio Eradication Initiative (2017) C1

The report reviews progress with the task of planning and implementing measures necessary to secure a completely polio-free world. It also examines actions aimed at ensuring successful transfer of polio assets, innovations developed and lessons learned to countries’ public health programmes and ot ... more

WCO Syria Bi-Weekly Situation Report
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World Health Organization WHO; Eastern Mediterranean Region (2021) C_WHO

COVID-19 Global Risk Communication and Community Engagement Strategy

UN Children's Fund UNICEF; GOARN; IFRC; WHO et al. (2021) C_UNICEF

December 2020 — May 2021

Enhanced COVID-19 Surveillance at the Community Level in Africa

African Union; Africa CDC Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (2021) CC

The strategy recommends that AU Member States should enhance, where feasible, existing COVID-19 surveillance to include: Community-based surveillance to detect symptomatic cases early for treatment and to avert viral transmission; Sentinel surveillance in high-risk populations to detect ... more

Africa’s Health Financing in a New Era

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) (2025) CC

Africa’s health sector is facing an unprecedented financing crisis, driven by a sharp decline of 70% in Official Development Assistance (ODA) from 2021 to 2025 and deep-rooted structural vulnerabilities. This collapse is placing immense pressure on Africa’s already fragile health systems as ODA ... is seen as the backbone of critical health programs: pandemic preparedness, maternal and child health services, disease control programs are all at risk, threatening Sustainable Development Goal 3 and Universal Health Coverage. Compounding this is Africa’s spiraling debt, with countries expected to service USD 81 billion by 2025—surpassing anticipated external financing inflows—further eroding fiscal space for health investments. Level of domestic resources is low. TThe Abuja Declaration of 2001, a pivotal commitment made by African Union (AU) member states, aimed to reverse this trend by pledging to allocate at least 15% of national budgets to the health sector. However, more than two decades later, only three countries—Rwanda, Botswana, and Cabo Verde—have consistently met or exceeded this target (WHO, 2023). In contrast, over 30 AU member states remain well below the 10% benchmark, with some allocating as little as 5–7% of their national budgets to health. In addition, only 16 (29%) of African countries currently have updated versions of National Health Development Plan (NHDP) supported by a National Health Financing Plan (NHFP). These two documents play a critical role in driving internal resource mobilisation. At the same time, public health emergencies are surging, rising 41%—from 152 in 2022 to 213 in 2024—exposing severe under-resourcing of health infrastructure and workforce. Recurring outbreaks (Mpox, Ebola, cholera, measles, Marburg…) alongside effects of climate change and humanitarian crises in Eastern DRC, the Sahel, and Sudan, are overwhelming systems stretched by chronic underfunding. The situation is worsened by Africa’s heavy dependency with over 90% of vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics being externally sourced—leaving countries vulnerable to global supply chain shocks. Health worker shortages persist, with only 2.3 professionals per 1,000 people (below the WHO’s recommended 4.45), and fewer than 30% of systems are digitized, undermining disease surveillance and early warning. Without decisive action, Africa CDC projects the continent could reverse two decades of health progress, face 2 to 4 million additional preventable deaths annually, and a heightened risk of a pandemic emerging from within. Furthermore, 39 million more Africans could be pushed into poverty by 2030 due to intertwined health and economic shocks. This is not just a sectoral crisis—it is an existential threat to Africa’s political, social, and economic resilience, and global stability. In response, African leaders, under Africa CDC’s stewardship, are advancing a comprehensive three-pillar strategy centered on domestic resource mobilization, innovative financing, and blended finance. more

Social resistance drives persistent transmission of Ebola virus disease in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: A mixed-methods study

Masumbuko ClaudeK, Underschultz J,Hawkes MT (2019) CC

PLoSONE 14(9):e0223104.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223104. The survey centering on reasons behind community resistance was conducted in Butembo in November during a time of Ebola transmission. A researcher from Catholic University of Graben in Butembo and collaborators at the University o ... more

Guide pratique pour la gestion des fausses informations sur le vaccins

The Public Good Projects; UNICEF; First Draft, Yale Insitute for Global Health (2020) C_UNICEF

Orientations pour faire face à une infodémie mondiale et favoriser la demande de vaccination Décembre 2020 La désinformation menace le succès des programmes de vaccination dans le monde entier. Ce guide vise à aider les organisations à faire face à l'infodémie mondiale par l'élaboration ... more

East and Horn of Africa COVID-19 Strategic Response and Recovery Plan 2021

International Organization for Migration IOM (2021) CC

Guide pratique pour la gestion des fausses informations sur les vaccins

PGP, UNICEF, Yale Institute for Global Health (2021) CC

Cette ressource a été élaborée pour faciliter le développement de plans d’action nationaux stratégiques et bien coordonnés afin de contrer rapidement la désinformation sur les vaccins et d’encourager la demande de vaccination éclairée par l’écoute sociale.

Africaʼs response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A summary of country reports

World Health Organization WHO, Regional Office of Africa (2022) C_WHO

January 2020 to December 2021

Pandemic and Poverty: COVID-19 Impact on the World’s Poor

World Relief (2022) CC

World Relief published a new report revealing the immense impact of COVID-19 on the world's poor. This report is one of the most comprehensive of its kind, corresponding to the two-year anniversary of when the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 to be a global pandemic.

A guide to tailoring health programmes: Using behavioural and cultural insights to tailor health policies, services and communications to the needs and circumstances of people and communities

World Health Organization WHO (2023) CC

WHO/Europe has launched a new guide, providing support to countries on how to apply behavioural and cultural insights (BCI) for health. It presents a simple step-wise approach, complemented by a rich collection of detailed considerations, tools and exercises. The guide is the first of its kind, spec ... more

Regional guiding framework for risk communication and community engagement for the COVID-19 response in theEastern Mediterranean Region/Middle East and North Africa

World Health Organization WHO; Eastern Mediterranean Region (2021) C_WHO

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) training: Online training
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World Health Organization WHO (2022) C_WHO

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