Featured news | WHO | Regional Office for Africa

Left to right: Dr Dirk Engels, Director of Control of NTDs at WHO HQ, Dr Kesetebirhan Admasu, Minister of Health of Ethiopia, and Dr Pierre M'pele-Kilebou, WHO Representative to Ethiopia.

GET2020: Counting Down towards Trachoma Elimination

Addis Ababa. 29 April 2014 – The 18th meeting of the WHO Alliance for…

WHO Mental Health Report on Refugee Camps in Gambella Region

WHO Mental Health Report on Refugee Camps in Gambella Region 10 – 17…

Boy sits under insecticide-treated bed net in Wonchit kebele, Dera Woreda, Amhara Region.

Ethiopia on Track to Achieve Millennium Development Goal 6 Thanks to Remarkable Progress in Malaria Control

BAHIR DAR, 25 April 2014. The past decade has seen unprecedented…

The high-level officials present administrated polio vaccine drops at the launching ceremony of the fourth African Vaccination Week in Gondar, Amhara Region, Ethiopia.

All Stakeholders Commit To Share Responsibility for Achieving Zero Deaths Related to Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

Gondar. 23 April 2014 – The fourth African Vaccination Week (AVW)…

In pictures: African Vaccination Week kicks off in Gondar, Ethiopia

The African Vaccination Week kicked off in Ethiopia on the 23rd of…

Kulle Refugee Camp in Gambella Region, western Ethiopia, currently hosts about 35,000 of the 97,000 refugees from South Sudan taking shelter in three camps in the region. Almost 66 per cent of the refugees in Kulle are women and children. The WHO assessment team led by the WHO Representative comprising technical experts in emergency and outbreak response, malaria, water and sanitation, immunization, and communication, witnessed the concerning health conditions at the camp on 22 April 2014 whilst assessing t

WHO takes urgent action to address health situation in Kulle South-Soudanese Refugee Camp, Gambella in Ethiopia

Kulle Refugee Camp in Gambella Region, western Ethiopia, currently…

High-level officials of Dolo Zonal Administration with WHO Representative to Ethiopia and Deputy Head of Somali Regional Health Bureau in Warder, 15 April 2014.

WHO and Somali Region Intensify Joint Actions to Interrupt Polio Transmission

Jigjiga. 17 April 2014 – The World Health Organization (WHO) and…

At the media orientation, the media representatives heard about the burden of vector-borne diseases and how they can be controlled and prevented.

Small Bite: Big Threat – Preventing Vector-borne Diseases in Ethiopia

Hawassa. 7 April - More than half the world’s population is at risk…

Dr Ameha Kebede, Director of Ethiopian Public Health Institute, officially opening the meeting on behalf of the Minister of Health, 19 March 2014

Ethiopia poised to interrupt transmission of guinea-worm disease in 2014

High-level political commitment bolsters eradication campaign in…

Signing of MoU between the Ministry of Health and six training institutions

Ethiopia Scales up Mental Health Services into Primary Health Care

Addis Ababa. 28 February 2014 – Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs)…