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Health financing progress matrix assessment, Zambia 2024

This report summarizes the findings of the Health Financing Progress Matrix assessment for Zambia. Recognizing the remarkable progress towards UHC made...

Ebola and Marburg disease outbreaks: infection prevention and control research priorities in health care settings

Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV) are associated with severe, potentially fatal, systemic diseases. During the development of the Infection Prevention...

Positive practices in developing primary health care-oriented health systems – A collection of case stories from the WHO South-East Asia Region

The desire for comprehensive primary health care (PHC) available to all has long been held by countries of the WHO South-East Asia Region, pre-dating the...

Report of the fifth annual meeting of the network of Buruli ulcer PCR laboratories in the WHO African Region, Accra, Ghana, 23–25 October 2023

The fifth meeting of the Buruli ulcer laboratory network (BU-LABNET) for the WHO African Region was held at the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical...