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As Africa marks the 24th African Traditional Medicine Day on 31 August, leaders, researchers and traditional health practitioners are reflecting on a pivotal question: how can traditional medicine help accelerate universal health coverage across the continent?

Addis Ababa—The future of Africa is being shaped today. Not in boardrooms or parliaments, but before birth, and in the earliest years of a child’s life. By 2050, two out of every five children born globally will be African. Yet today, up to two thirds of children in sub-Saharan Africa may never reach their full…

Addis Ababa—Millions of people in Africa rely on medicines, vaccines, diagnostic tests and medical devices without worrying about the systems that ensure they are safe, effective and of good quality. Behind every product that reaches a patient is a regulatory system working to protect public health

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

Every year, 260,000 women die from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. To put that number in perspective, it is the equivalent of filling a World Cup stadium to capacity and losing every person inside it, seven times over. Alongside them, nearly 5 million children die before their fifth birthday, and 1.9 million more are…