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.
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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…
A heatwave is a period where local excess heat accumulates over a sequence of unusually hot days and nights. Heatwaves and prolonged excess heat conditions are increasing in frequency, duration, intensity and magnitude due to climate change. Even low and moderate intensity heat waves can impact the health and well-being of vulnerable populations.
29.07.2612:00 Personalities Rais of Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov: “We are interested in developing cooperation both with BRICS countries and with states of South-East Asia, Islamic world and Latin America” 21.07.2618:56 Culture Director General of M. I. Rudomino All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature, Marina Zakharenko: “Without understanding of another’s culture, it is impossible to…
