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World Malaria Day 2023

Road towards eliminating malaria, continued collaboration between WHO and Botswana

“I was unconscious, with severe headache and fever. Three days later…
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Elizabeth, a 7-year-old girl from Dukwi Refugee Camp in Botswana shows her marked finger after receiving her polio vaccine.

Botswana ran a polio supplementary vaccination campaign

Botswana conducted a two-round polio supplementary vaccination…
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Thongbotho Mphoyakgosi, Medical Laboratory Scientist

Thongbotho Mphoyakgosi, Medical Laboratory Scientist

Twenty years ago, Thongbotho Mphoyakgosi, wanted to be a social…
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Health Data Communications Bootcamp in Botswana

Statisticians and journalists of Botswana learn to better interpret and communicate health data

Statistics Botswana in collaboration with the OECD's Partnership in…
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Kasane Laboratory

Why Botswana needs a comprehensive laboratory policy and strategic plan?

The laboratory plays a major role in the diagnosis of disease…
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Botswana ICOPE

Botswana to be a better place to grow old

Estimated at 43 million in 2010, the population of elderly people in…
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Group session during SURGE training in Botswana

70 trained specialists in Botswana ready to be deployed and intervene in health emergencies

A group of 70 representatives from different governmental agencies…
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At the World Health Day commemoration, the Assistant Minister of Health Sethome Lelatisitswe expressed his concerns that the current global environmental crisis accelerates the already high rate of NCDs in Botswana

Climate change has direct consequences for the key determinants of health

In the African Region, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are set to…
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Botswana’s participation at the World Health Assembly 2022

On the occasion of the 75th session of the World Health Assembly (…
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vaccines can create a world where no one dies from preventable disease

Regain lost ground on vaccine-preventable diseases in Botswana

Gaborone, 28 April 2022 – Pandemic-related disruptions, increasing…
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