Publication
17 Oct 2018
This publication highlights success stories from the WHO Country Office for Ghana in six operational areas including Noncommunicable Diseases, Promoting Health through the Life Course, and Health Systems.
Case study
17 Oct 2018
This document highlights case studies that represent success stories, achievements, and impact in the WHO African Region. This includes one success story on the use of mobile phones for treating diabetes in Senegal.
Report
17 Oct 2018
This report is the first report to focus on the health of the 738 million people living in the African Region of the World Health Organization. It provides a comprehensive analysis of key public health issues and progress made on them in the Africa Region.
Report
17 Oct 2018
This document is a report from the First WHO Africa Health Forum in Kigali, Rwanda. The aim of the Forum was to explore Africa’s healthcare priorities and challenges and to find new ways to achieve better health for all. Participants at the Forum included leaders, policy makers, advocates, implementers and partners from various countries and with varied affiliations.
Publication
17 Oct 2018
Executive summary of The Lancet Series, authored by an international group of public health, environmental, and other scientists. Each study focuses on one sector in which greenhouse-gas emissions need to be reduced.
Guide
17 Oct 2018
The mHealth Assessment and Planning for Scale (MAPS) toolkit is a self-assessment tool that guides project teams whilst they are scaling up their innovations.
Dialogue
17 Oct 2018
This paper addresses the social dimensions of climate change from a sustainable, equitable development perspective, understood as “an irreducible holistic concept where economic, social and environmental issues are interdependent dimensions that must be approached within a unified framework”, and where the overarching outcome is to fully promote human welfare and equal access to life-sustainin...
Report
17 Oct 2018
This report presents a comprehensive picture of the state of health and its determinants in the WHO African Region. It aims to act as a benchmark of progress, as Member States in the African Region adopt a range of actions to move their populations towards the health and well-being ideals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Report
17 Oct 2018
This report outlines the significant results achieved under the six categories of work of the 12th General Programme of Work. It reflects the contributions made by WHO Country Offices and the Regional Office, including the Intercountry Support Teams, who, in collaboration with their partners, support health development in Member States of the WHO African Region.
Report
17 Oct 2018
This report highlights WHO global consultations, declarations and reports on major health issues such as social determinants of health; public health, innovation and intellectual property; research for health; and health promotion, which have created opportunities to mobilize efforts and resources to address some of the main health challenges in the African Region.
Report
17 Oct 2018
This executive summary reflects the work of WHO in the African Region during the biennium that was guided by the 11th General Programme of Work (GPW), the Medium-Term Strategic Plan (MTSP) 2008–2013, Country Cooperation Strategies (CCS) and the WHO African Region Strategic Directions 2010–2015, whose milestones define a set of deliverable results for the Region.
Report
17 Oct 2018
This report on the work of WHO in the African Region 2010, presents the progress made in the first year of the biennium and has been prepared for submission to the sixty-first session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa.
