WHO launches digital campaign in response to Angola’s cholera outbreak, enlisting local social media influencers to spread ...

WHO’s ground teams have been working tirelessly with local health workers to distribute rehydration solutions, establish ...

Angola received 2,000 life-saving oral cholera vaccines for frontline healthcare workers from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) in March 2025.

The Incident Management Support Team model that has guided the mpox response will be leveraged to coordinate and accelerate ...

Since the confirmation of the outbreak, cholera has spread to 17 of the country's 21 provinces. The outbreak has already caused almost 600 deaths, with a high case fatality rate of 3.2%, exceeding the ...

Luanda: Angola has recorded over 20,000 cases of cholera since January in an outbreak that has killed more than 600 people, the health ministry said Tuesday. The African nation has struggled with ...

In response to one of the worst cholera epidemics to strike Africa in nearly a decade, Doctors Without Borders has organized the distribution of free chlorine and the United Nations is distributing ...

Claire-Lise Chaignat, the head of WHO's global cholera program, said six officials from the agency had arrived in the past several weeks to augment the team already stationed in Angola.

Cholera Outbreaks: Preliminary data showed that 8,10,000 and 5,900 deaths had been reported in the year 2024, a large increase from 2023. These numbers were an underestimate, as official reporting ...

"Cholera is not only a medical emergency, but also an emergency of sanitation, treated water, information, dignity, and social justice. We must continue to work together to eliminate cholera and ...

Faced with a lack of running water, unsanitary conditions and poverty, the Kinshasa neighbourhood of Pakadjuma has struggled ...

LUANDA, Angola, April 21, 2025/APO Group/ -- In a meeting held today, the Honourable Minister of Health of the Republic of Angola, Dr. Sílvia Lut Tuesday, 02 January 2024 12:17 GMT عربي ...