Health Care

In Numbers549,331 people assisted in April 20214,786.44 mt of food assistance distributedUSD 2.8 million cash-based transfers madeUS$ 124.2 million six months (May–October 2021) net funding requirementsOperational Updates• In April 2021, WFP assisted 5...

U.N. aid agencies say residents of Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are fleeing the city in fear of further volcanic eruptions from Mount Nyiragongo.Barely one week has passed since thousands of people in eastern Congo fled to neighbori...

Authorities in Cameroon are clearing the streets in the capital, Yaounde, of more than 300 psychiatric patients whom officials say have been abandoned...

Uganda is seeing a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases, forcing its health officials to take stern emergency measures. From 200 cases per day...

Kenya's western city of Kisumu has surpassed the capital, Nairobi, as having the country's highest number of confirmed COVID-19 infections. The jump in cases comes a day after an opposition leader addressed large crowds in Kisumu, which also reported K...

Media release by Premier Winde on the zero rating of the EVDS on the Western Cape Government’s public Wi-Fi hotspots“Vaccine registration on the EVDS is now zero-rated on the Western Cape Government’s public Wi-Fi hotspots”The Western Cape Government h...

Statement by President Cyril Ramaphosa to the World Health AssemblyPresident of the 74th World Health Assembly, Her Excellency Dasho Dechen Wangmo,Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Your Excellencies Heads...

South Sudan’s National Task Force on COVID-19 is sending back 72,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to the COVAX facility for use in other countries before the doses expire. South Sudan received 132,000 doses in late March from COVAX, a global coaliti...