One of my favourite protest songs rings out every year on August 9, which is Women’s Day in South Africa. The song works as a call and response: one set of voices cries out, “You have struck a woman,” while another set responds, “so, you have struck a rock!”
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The World Health Organization (WHO) and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) have called for an urgent expansion of community-led efforts to control the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have called for an urgent scale-up of the community-led Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with stronger early detection, contact follow up, access to care, support for frontline health workers and faster delivery of re
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said India has already delivered three tranches of medical assistance to Africa under its USD 10 million in-kind medical equipment pledge, reaffirming New Delhi’s commitment to strengthening healthcare cooperation and its broader partnership with the African continent.
The first results from the Mobile Men study, presented at AIDS 2026, show that long-acting injectable cabotegravir helped men who travel for work stay on HIV prevention for longer than oral PrEP. The study also found that same-day HIV testing and starting injectable PrEP was feasible. For those taking oral PrEP, the study found that…
China’s third medical expert team for the Ebola response will continue to deepen exchanges and cooperation with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and international organizations based on the actual needs of epidemic prevention and control, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | August 2026 – The Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa, will host the Seventy-sixth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa (RC76) in Addis Ababa from 24 to 28 August 2026.
France – Artificial intelligence is enabling 55 per cent of reported cybercrimes across Africa making attacks faster, more scalable, and increasingly difficult for victims and platforms to detect, according to INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026
All United Nations member states adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. They cover poverty, health, education, inequality, climate change, peace and other global issues. The goals are now approaching their 2030 deadline.
Dakar, 17 July 2026– Nine African countries have developed costed national roadmaps to strengthen health professions education and ensure that future health workers acquire the competencies needed to respond to evolving health priorities.
