At least 3,009 people have died from Ebola since its outbreak in May, according to Africa CDC James Tasamba 02 September 2026•Update: 02 September 2026 KIGALI, Rwanda
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Health ministers from several African countries have commended Ethiopia’s rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) after visiting the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute during the 76th WHO Regional Committee for Africa Meeting.
Addis Ababa — African health ministers, development partners, heads of African Union and regional health institutions today agreed on a renewed continental agenda to accelerate the elimination of multiple diseases in the region, committing to ensuring that disease elimination remains a priority within broader health and development agenda.
Addis Ababa—Millions of people in Africa rely on medicines, vaccines, diagnostic tests and medical devices without worrying about the systems that ensure they are safe, effective and of good quality. Behind every product that reaches a patient is a regulatory system working to protect public health.
Addis Ababa—Ministers of Health from the 47 Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) African Region today opened the Seventy-sixth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa in Addis Ababa, launching three days of deliberations on policies and priorities that will guide the region’s health agenda in the coming year and beyond.
East African health leaders are calling for stronger regional health systems and expanded local production of medicines and medical supplies while urging deeper international cooperation, investment and technology partnerships to make the region more resilient to future health emergencies.
Tropical croplands sit on strongly weathered soils where soil functions and ecosystem services such as carbon storage are constrained by texture, mineralogy, climate, and pedogenesis, making direct comparison with temperate-derived soil health benchmarks unreliable. Here we develop a region-specific soil health assessment protocol and evaluation for Sub-Saharan Africa that benchmarks soil health indicators (e.g., organic carbon) against…
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President Cyril Ramaphosa will chair a high-level meeting of the Global Leaders Network (GLN) in eThekwini this weekend, bringing African leaders together for discussions on protecting the health and well-being of women, children, adolescents and future generations.
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…
