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Ministry of Health, Republic of Liberia
Source: Ministry of Health, Republic of Liberia |

Liberia Welcomes Team of Congolese Surgeons to Strengthen National Healthcare

This delegation will provide critical technical services and surgical expertise to health facilities across Liberia for ten months, from November 2025 to August 2026

The Ministry of Health, with crucial support from The World Bank under the Institutional Foundations to Improve Service for Health (IFISH) project, announces the arrival of a specialized team of 20 surgeon doctors and lecturers from the Democratic Republic of Congo. This delegation will provide critical technical services and surgical…

Ministry of Health, Republic of Liberia
Source: Ministry of Health, Republic of Liberia |

Liberia Launches Triple Elimination Strategy at 2025 World AIDS Day Celebration

This year’s celebration was held under the global theme, “Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response,” and re-cast nationally as “Mobilizing Domestic Support, Transforming the AIDS Response”

Today, the nation witnessed the official launch of the Triple Elimination Strategy at Capitol Hill, targeting HIV, Syphilis, and Hepatitis B. The launch of Liberia’s Triple Elimination Strategy during the 2025 World AIDS Day aims to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV, Syphilis, and Hepatitis B while demonstrating the government’s commitment to strengthening…

International Rescue Committee (IRC)
Source: International Rescue Committee (IRC) |

New International Rescue Committee (IRC) data shows thousands of women and girls at risk as aid cuts cripple gender-based violence services in West Africa

The IRC urges the international community of donor governments to significantly increase funding for organizations responding to GBV

Across Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Nigeria, over 55% of gender-based violence (GBV) survivors supported in early 2025, have been left without continued access to essential, safe and confidential services for their recovery following broad funding cuts. In Menaka, Mali, nearly 90% of survivors’ cases are still waiting for full…

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)
Source: Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) |

Ethiopia Launches Fourth National Plan to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance

Ethiopia’s new action plan positions the country as a continental leader, setting a model for progress and inspiring other nations to act

Ethiopia has unveiled its fourth National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), reaffirming its commitment to tackling this pressing global health threat. The launch places Ethiopia among a growing number of African countries with firm strategies to address AMR, which occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites evolve to withstand…

World Health Organization (WHO) - Malawi
Source: World Health Organization (WHO) - Malawi |

Malawi advances efforts to finalize its Health Labour Market Analysis for Evidence-based Health Workforce Planning and Development

The comprehensive HLMA report with evidence-based policy questions will facilitate a multisectoral technical dialogue to build national cross-sectoral consensus on policy directions for health workforce development, employment, and management in Malawi

Achieving SGD3, Universal Health Coverage by 2030, and health security and PHC-oriented and resilient health systems hinges on the sufficient capacity of a well-trained and motivated health workforce to provide the essential health services at all levels of care.  The Ministry of Health, with technical support from the World Health…

Médecins sans frontières (MSF)
Source: Médecins sans frontières (MSF) |

Curbing rising malaria rates in Bench Sheko, Southwest Ethiopia

Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in collaboration with the Zonal Health Bureau, the Regional Health Bureau and the Ministry of Health initiated an emergency response in Bench Sheko

Bench Sheko in Southwest Ethiopia is a zone highly vulnerable to malaria. Heavy rains and limitations in accessing healthcare create conditions for recurrent outbreaks of the disease. Local health facilities have faced challenges often linked to shortages of essential malaria medicines, forcing patients to travel long distances or pay for…

UN Women
Source: UN Women |

Statement: Recommit and resource the power of women and girls to transform the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) response

UN Women statement for World AIDS Day, 1 December 2025

This World AIDS Day comes amid deep uncertainty, and this year’s theme, “Overcoming disruption, transforming the AIDS response”, is a clear call to action: the world must step up, not step back. Gender inequality continues to fuel the AIDS pandemic. Today, 53 per cent of the 40.8 million people living with HIV are…

World Health Organization (WHO)
Source: World Health Organization (WHO) |

Measles deaths down 88% since 2000, but cases surge

To achieve measles elimination, strong political commitment and sustained investment is needed to ensure all children receive two doses of the measles vaccine and surveillance systems can rapidly detect outbreaks

Global immunization efforts have led to an 88% drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2024, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO). Nearly 59 million lives have been saved by the measles vaccine since 2000. However, an estimated 95 000 people, mostly children younger than 5 years of…

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Merck Foundation Conducted their Health Media Training during the 7th Edition of Merck Foundation First Ladies Initiative - MFFLI Summit to support girl education and break infertility stigma

During the 7th Edition of Merck Foundation First Ladies Initiative -MFFLI Summit, two important occasions were marked; the 8th Anniversary of Merck Foundation and 13 years of Merck Foundation’s development programs

Merck Foundation (www.Merck-Foundation.com), the philanthropic arm of Merck KGaA Germany, conducted the 7th Edition of Merck Foundation First Ladies Initiative - MFFLI Summit 2025, in presence of Merck Foundation CEO, Dr. Rasha Kelej and African & Asian First Ladies, who are the Ambassadors of “Merck Foundation More Than a Mother”.…

World Health Organization (WHO) - Angola
Source: World Health Organization (WHO) - Angola |

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Witnesses Efforts to Restore Lives Affected by Fistula

Obstetric fistula is a devastating birth injury that affects millions of women worldwide, especially in developing countries

To the soft and moving sound of the choir of hospitalised patients, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Adhanom, walked through the fistula ward of the Azancot de Menezes Hospital, visibly moved by the reality that unfolded before him.    Each step reflected the intensity of the…