African Union (AU) Ministers of Health and Finance, together with Heads of Delegation, have called for urgent and sustained investment in Africa's health workforce, including to build a ...

Health leaders, policymakers, and development partners from 49 African Union (AU) member states have begun charting a people-centred path for primary healthcare across the continent. This emerged in ...

Ten years ago, I (Sheringham) was going door-to-door, providing routine health checks, administering vaccinations, and managing cases of HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and other debilitating diseases for ...

In rural regions of Africa, high blood pressure often goes untreated because health centers are far away and there is a ...

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 17, 2019, a community health worker prepares to vaccinate children against measles outside of Kuajok, South Sudan. As South Sudan emerges from a five-year civil ...

Like in many African countries, Nigeria’s public healthcare system is under severe strain, and the consequences are now clear: thousands of trained health workers are leaving the country in search of ...

Community health workers (CHWs) are trusted frontline public health workers who often function as liaisons or intermediaries between health and social services and the community. Their activities can ...