Efforts to transform the WHO in the African Region are making an impact on the health of people across the region. The strengthened realignment to health priorities and effective responses to over 100 disease outbreaks and humanitarian disasters each year are some of the more important results of the ambitious reform program which began in 2015.

WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has commended Toyin Saraki and the programmes run by the Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), of which Mrs Saraki is the Founder-President, during an audience granted to Mrs Saraki at the 71st World Health Assembly last week in Geneva.

H.E. Mrs Toyin Ojora Saraki, Special Advisor to the Independent Advisory Group (IAG) to the World Health Organization regional office for Africa (WHO AFRO), today addressed the launch of the business case for WHO Immunization Activities in Africa.

H.E. Mrs Toyin Ojora Saraki, Founder-President of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA) and Global Goodwill Ambassador for the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), today delivered the keynote speech at the high-level Future of Health Summit, organised by Forbes and CNBC Africa.

Toyin Saraki today declared war on sepsis and poor hygiene in health centres, during her keynote speech to the International Day of the Midwife (IDM) Commemoration event hosted by the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) in Abuja.

H.E. Mrs Toyin Ojora Saraki yesterday delivered a keynote address and took part in a panel session at the Nigerian Medical Association's 58th Annual Delegates Meeting and Scientific Conference Town Hall Meeting in Abuja. The meeting was focused on “Health, Democracy and Governance: Putting Health Atop The Political Agenda of Nigeria.”

Addressing the association, Mrs Saraki commented:

H.E. Mrs Toyin Ojora Saraki, Founder-President of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), has marked International Workers Day by paying tribute to WBFA midwives and the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM).

To mark the end of Africa Vaccination Week yesterday, the Gates Foundation, Johns Hopkins International Vaccine Access Center and other global institutions have celebrated African Vaccination Leaders who have excelled in advocating for transformative changes in vaccination coverage.