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West & Central Africa HIV catch-up - WHO in an era of transformation

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The Transformation Agenda (TA) ushered in an ambitious reform process intended to transform the World Health Organization (WHO) into an organization that is proactive, results-driven, accountable and which meets stakeholder expectations, towards transforming and improving public health services in t ... he African Region. It aimed to achieve a WHO that is pro-results, which optimally and creatively targets technical work as well as make operations more responsive, with greater effectiveness in both communications and partnerships. The Africa Region has been the epicentre of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic and it’s one of the leading causes of disease and death on the continent. The WHO, with partners, has worked tirelessly for many years to control the threat and reduce the negative impact of the disease. Since the early 2000s, significant progress has been made in the global fight against the scourge of HIV. However, the WCA subregion was falling concerningly behind ESA on several key indicators of progress. In 2016, the WHO joined UNAIDS, UNICEF and other partners in a call for a strong and urgent response to support WCA countries to develop catch-up plans to triple and fast-track ART coverage, to enable the region to catch up with ESA by the end of 2020. Implementation of a widespread test-and-treat strategy, coupled with the scale-up of differentiated service delivery (DSD) and mobilization of requisite funding, accelerated WCA’s progress towards this goal. The HIV treatment catch-up and fast-track plan has achieved its target of seeing the West and Central African region (WCA) catch up with the Eastern and Southern African region’s (ESA) antiretroviral coverage rate of 78% in 2021, albeit later than the 2020 target time frame. A 33% improvement was achieved in WCA, against 21% in ESA, between 2015–2020. WCA achieved a significant 42% increase, compared to ESA’s 23%, between 2015 and 2021, to see WCA draw level with ESA at 78%. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) alone, progress of up to 47% was observed between 2015 and 2020, for example. In addition, 1.6 million more People Living with HIV (PLHIV) were enrolled on antiretroviral treatment (ART) between 2015 and 2020. more

Health Technology MANUAL: Improving the Integrated Management of Chronic Diseases at the First Level of Health Care Services

Pan American Health Organization PAHO; World Health Organization WHO (2017) C_WHO

Care for persons with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is a major health priority for most countries worldwide, particularly for low-middle income countries where the problem seems to be worsening. Globally, ... more

Epidemic meningitis surveillance in the African meningitis belt

World Health Organization WHO (2014) C_WHO

This document is intended to serve as a reference for national public health policy-makers. It outlines the scope of potential meningitis surveillance strategies that make it possible to obtain the data required for epidemic detection, monitoring of ... more

Indicators and Reference Data: A Practical Tool for Project Managers in Humanitarian Aid

Marie Theres Benner and K. Peter Schmitz Malteser International (2011)

Operational Guideline

Prevention and control of epidemic meningococcal disease in Africa

WHO (2002)

Report of a WHO technical consultation meeting Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

State HIV Epidemic Fact Sheet

NACO (2014)

Core Set of Indicators & Indicator Data Sheets for Health and Social Health Protection

Deutsche Gesellschaft fü; r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH ;; KfW (2012)

The Core Set of Indicators and respective Indicator Data Sheets aim to pave the way towards a common understanding, greater consistency and comparability across countries and alignment of results chains of German Development Cooperation in the field ... more

Slowing of the HIV Epidemic in Ukraine: Evidence from Case Reporting and Key Population Surveys, 2005–2012

C. R. Vitek; J.-I. Cakalo; Y .V. Kruglov; et al. PLOS One (2014) C2

PLOS ONE | www.plosone.org September 2014 | Volume 9 | Issue 9 | e103657

Trends in Maternal Health Indicators in Sierra Leone, 2008-2013

Assaf, Shireen and Rebecca Winter ICF International (2015) C2

DHS Further Analysis Reports No. 97

Measuring Core Health Indicators in the South-East Asia Region 2014

World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, Health Situation and Trend Assessment Unit of Health System Department (2015) CC3

Antiretroviral treatment in the spotlight: The HIV epidemic and continuum of care in children in Latin America and the Caribbean

L. Guillermo Castañeda; M. Alonso González; G. Ravasi; et al. Pan American Health Organization; World Health Organization (Americas) (2016) C_WHO

Guidance on global monitoring for diabetes prevention and control: Framework, indicators and application

World Health Organization WHO (2024) C_WHO

The Guidance on global monitoring for diabetes prevention and control by WHO provides a comprehensive framework to support countries in tracking and managing diabetes prevention, care, and outcomes. This document outlines indicators across 4 domains ... more

Tigrai Regional State Synthesis of the HIV Epidemic and Response

UNAIDS; Tigray Health Bureau (2012) C1

Trends in Demographic and Reproductive Health Indicators in Ethiopia

Zachary, Blake, Zhuzhi Moore, and Pav Govindasamy ICF International (2013) C2

Data from the 2000, 2005, and 2011 Demographic and Health Surveys. DHS Trend Reports No. 7

“Crafting the mosaic” A framework for resilient surveillance for respiratory viruses of epidemic and pandemic potentia

World Health Organisation WHO (2023) C_WHO

It is impossible to address the many complex needs of respiratory virus surveillance with a single surveillance system. Multiple systems, investigations and studies must each be fit-for-purpose to specific priority surveillance objectives, and only together can they provide essential information to ... more

WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2023: protect people from tobacco smoke

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

The ninth WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic tracks the progress made by countries in tobacco control since 2008 and, marks 15 years since the introduction of the MPOWER technical package which is designed to help countries implement the dema ... more