World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa

Recent papers from World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa

1. Opportunities, risks and policy implications of using health facility mortality data to inform DRG payment design under Ghana’s NHISnpj Health Systems · 2026
2. Defining ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection prevalence thresholds for the trachoma elimination endgame2026
3. Bridging Fragmented Systems: Integrated Approaches to HPV Vaccination for People Living with HIV in Eastern and Southern AfricaVaccines · 2026
4. Etiology and incidence of diarrhea requiring hospitalization in children under 5 years of age in 31 low- and middle-income countries: Findings from the Global Pediatric Diarrhea Surveillance network, 2017–2022PLOS Global Public Health · 2026
5. How Sierra Leone Developed its First National Hospital Strategy 2025–2030: A Policy Analysis Case Study of Process, Actors, and Procedural LegitimacyJournal of Epidemiology and Global Health · 2026
6. Bundibugyo virus: coordinating a cross-border responseThe Lancet · 2026
7. Building Zanzibar's first cardiac catheterization lab: closing the chain of survivalEuropean Heart Journal · 2026
8. An oral health module for use in noncommunicable disease risk factor surveys.2026
9. Strengthening systems to monitor antibiotics. An action oriented approachWellcome Open Research · 2026
10. Antigen Positivity Without Infection: Confirmatory Mapping in Children Rules out Lymphatic Filariasis in Loiasis Co-Endemic Settings in GabonTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease · 2026
11. Strengthening Newborn Screening, Diagnosis and Management of Birth Defects in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Priority for WHO Member StatesInternational Journal of Neonatal Screening · 2026
12. São Tomé and Príncipe on the Verge of Eliminating Lymphatic Filariasis as a Public Health Problem: Evidence from IDA Impact Assessment SurveysTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease · 2026
13. From pandemic preparedness commitments to demonstrable capability: priorities for the 2026 United Nations High-Level MeetingInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2026
14. Capacities of Frontline Health Services During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pilot Study in SenegalCentral African Journal of Public Health · 2026
15. Community case study: overcoming barriers to social participation for improved local health governance in MadagascarFrontiers in Public Health · 2026
16. Phylogenetic analysis of the 2025 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the CongoNature Communications · 2026
17. A narrative review of progress and lessons from a decade of implementing infection prevention and control in Sierra Leone following the Ebola epidemicDiscover Public Health · 2026
18. The African Polio Laboratory Network: Advancing Regional Poliovirus Detection, Genomic Surveillance, and EradicationVaccines · 2026
19. Mpox in Africa: one year continental response outcomes and way forwardBMJ Global Health · 2026
20. Immunogenicity of type 2 novel oral poliovirus vaccine administered in outbreak response, Kenya 2023: an observational cohort studyVaccine · 2026