Africa: Health Advances Marked 2025 As Wars and Funding Cuts Strained Systems

From eliminating deadly infections to expanding access to lifesaving vaccines, 2025 delivered meaningful progress for global health, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO), offering cautious optimism at the close of a year marked by both breakthroughs and strain.

Even as funding cuts, conflict and climate shocks strained health systems worldwide – disrupting essential services in many countries – governments and partners still recorded notable gains in disease control, prevention and…