Dr Matshidiso Moeti

About 70 000 cervical cancer deaths could be averted annually in the African region if the efforts to end the disease by 2030 are urgently stepped up to ensure increased access to critical services for timely detection, care and prevention.

As the African region marks one year since the last confirmed detection of wild poliovirus type 1, Ministers of Health and other health leaders gathering for the Seventy-third session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional…

“Last year, we lost an average of 970 people every day. This is a catastrophically high toll,” - Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.

... becomes fourth African country to be validated by WHO

Preliminary report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that no fewer than 1400 monkeypox cases (1392 suspected, 44 confirmed) have been cumulatively  reported this year between January and mid-May in seven African countries.

Health authorities in Mozambique today declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after confirming that a child in the country’s north-eastern Tete province had contracted the disease. This marks the second imported case of wild…

As the world marks the International women’s Day today, the WHO Regional Director for Africa Dr. Matshidiso Moeti said the increasing incidence of extreme weather conditions is having devastating effects on the health of women and girls.…

Deaths dipped for the first time since the peak of the fourth pandemic wave propelled by the Omicron variant

Fighting diabetes epidemic in Africa is in many ways as critical as the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO says

Africa is set to miss the urgent global goal of vaccinating the most vulnerable 10% of every country’s population against COVID-19 by the end of September. Forty-two of Africa’s 54 nations—nearly 80%—are set to miss the target if the…