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Restoring essential health services after Cyclone Idai in Mozambique

More than 50 health facilities across Sofala Province, Mozambique,…
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Ambassadors demonstrating Handwashing

Empowering students to become powerful change agents against antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria

Abuja, 5 July, 2019 – With  financial support of Global Affairs…
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Participants included 31 PHEOC trainers from 22 Member States of the WHO African Region and the WHO Mediterranean Region

Public Health Emergency Operations Centres strengthened through training

In response to the more than 100 public health emergencies that occur…
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Launch of Scale-up Plan for Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment

Uganda Launches Scale-up Plan for Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment

 Kampala, 4th July 2019: - The Minister of Health, Dr Jane Ruth…
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Strong involvement of communities in surveillance is crucial to preventing the local transmission of the Ebola virus

Communities and coordination are crucial in fighting Ebola

Close to the border with the Ebola-hit Democratic Republic of Congo (…
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A local official receives a dose of oral cholera vaccine in Tshilenge, July 2019

More than a million people to be vaccinated in phase 2 of a huge cholera vaccination campaign in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Phase 2 of the biggest ever oral vaccination campaign against cholera…
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Public Health Emergency Operations Centres strengthened through training

In response to the more than 100 public health emergencies that occur…
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Dr Owen Kaluwa presenting a citation to a blood donor group

Ghana commemorates World Blood Donor Day; Safe blood for all.

On 14 June 2019, Ghana joined the global community to celebrate World…
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