AGP Executive Report
Last update: 5 hours agoWAHO Patient Voice: WAHO launched Health Service User Support Centres in Benin, The Gambia and Togo, starting in Lomé on 21 August, to help patients report problems, get guidance, and access dialogue and mediation—not just a complaints desk. WAHO Leadership: Professor Palokinam T. Pitche formally assumed office as new Director-General of WAHO, bringing long experience from Togo’s AIDS programmes and regional health systems work. Clean Cooking for Health: Togo signed a CFAF 4.7 billion financing deal to scale improved cookstoves nationwide, aiming to cut firewood and charcoal use and protect forests while improving household health; about 107,000 households already received stoves under the pilot. Health Spending as Investment: A UN ECA workshop in Togo trained health ministries and statistics offices to build tools that show health spending’s economic returns, supporting better planning and budgeting. Digital Safety for Women: Nigeria’s WhatsApp chatbot “Kemi” is expanding support for technology-facilitated gender-based violence across Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Togo and Cameroon, guiding users to reporting and local help channels. Workplace Health Policy: Togo’s Gilbert Houngbo is seeking a second term as ILO Director-General, highlighting reforms tied to occupational safety and health and apprenticeships.
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