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Polio surveillance strengthened in Sierra Leone

To enhance Sierra Leone's polio surveillance capacity, a team of…
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Laboratory experts at the workshop

Botswana Develops National Policy on Biological Resources and Benefit-Sharing

Botswana has taken a significant step toward strengthening the…
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Strengthening vaccine programs and outbreak responses

 
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Ensuring primary health services for displaced people

South Sudan: Ensuring primary health services for displaced people

Juba ‒ Cecilia Achuwor, a 38-year-old mother of six children, is one…
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Liberia: Scaling up access to life-saving medical oxygen

Liberia: Scaling up access to life-saving medical oxygen

Late one night, 44-year-old Irene Mabande’s four-year-old daughter…
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African health ministers, partners urge equitable access to critical tools to curb cervical cancer threat

African health ministers, partners urge equitable access to critical tools to curb cervical cancer threat

Inequitable access to vaccines and high-performance screening tools…
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Sample collected from the Glen Valley Wastewater Treatment Plant

Strengthening Polio Surveillance: Risk Assessment following Detection of Circulating Vaccine Derived Poliovirus type 2

Environmental Surveillance (ES) was introduced in August 2022 to…
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First-ever delivery of mpox vaccines in Africa outside of clinical trials arrives in Nigeria 

First-ever delivery of mpox vaccines in Africa outside of clinical trials arrives in Nigeria

Nigeria today received 10 000 doses of mpox vaccines, becoming the…
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