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Participants of the Consultatation Meeting on Enhancing Engagement of NGOs and CSOs on the END TB Strategy.

Community Engagement Key to Ending the TB Epidemic

ADDIS ABABA, 11 November 2015 | Nearly 90 communities, non-…
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H.E. First Lady, Mrs Roman Tesfaye and Honorable Dr Kesetebirhan Admasu, Minister of Health, displaying the Strategy document.

Ethiopia Launches New Cancer Control Strategy

Every year cancer claims thousands of lives in Ethiopia. The country…
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Dr M'pele, the President of Oromia Region and Minister of Health at the honoring ceremony.

Dr Pierre M'pele Ends His Mission in Ethiopia

After two years and 10 months of leading the World Health…
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Dr Kessetebirhan Admasu, Minister of Health, speaking at the launching event of the HSTP.

Ethiopia Launches Its Health Sector Transformation Plan

Ethiopia launched its ambitious five-year Health Sector…
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Dr Fikir Melese demonstrating self-examination techniques.

In a global effort to raise awareness on breast cancer, October has been designated as the Pink Month. The Pink Month is a month where efforts to educate those concerned about the disease, including early identification and signs and symptoms associated

In a global effort to raise awareness on breast cancer, October has…
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WHO handed over a Diarrheal Disease Kit (DDK) to the Sitti zone health bureau.

WHO Responds to El Niño Driven Emergency in Ethiopia

WHO has been providing health and nutritional support to communities…
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WHO handed over the Emergency Health Kit enough to benefit over 40,000 refugee and host community with different communicable diseases for three months.

WHO Commits to Improve Health Situation in Gambella, Ethiopia

Increasing reports of communicable diseases and presence of a large…
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Introductory briefing of the Rotarians at WHO Ethiopia

WHO and Rotary – Exemplary Partnership to End Polio in Ethiopia

Rotarians from the USA and Canada paid  a courtesy visit to WHO…
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Participants of World Polio Day Commemoration

WPD 2015 Colorfully Commemorated at Addis Ababa Assembly Hall

World Polio Day (WPD) was commemorated on 24 October 2015 at Addis…
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Muaz Reshid with a radiant smile at the hydrotherapy facility.

Inaugurating the Hydrotherapy Facility for Polio Rehabilitation – the first of its kind in Ethiopia

The Hydrotherapy Center established at the Cheshire Services Ethiopia…
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