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Head of Service, vaccinating a child with oral cholera vaccine at Muna IDPs camp in Borno state.

Borno applauds WHO's response to cholera outbreak.

Maiduguri, 19 September 2017 - As the cholera vaccination campaign…
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One year after Nigeria emergency declaration.

Eight years of conflict and crisis in north-eastern Nigeria have left…
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Medical supplies allocated to flood affected areas being dispatched to partners. Photo WHO

WHO and partners respond to flood crises in the former Northern Bahr el Ghazal and Upper Nile States of South Sudan

18 September 2017, Juba – The World Health Organization (WHO) in…
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L'agent en charge de l'Information Education Communication (IEC) donne des conseils d'usage

Protéger les burundais du paludisme : campagne nationale de distribution de moustiquaires imprégnées du 18 au 22 septembre

Du 18 au 22 septembre 2017, le Ministère de la Santé Publique et de…
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Field worker demonstrating snail collection

WHO convenes experts to enhance capacity for schistosomiasis control across the sub-Sahara Region

Schistosomiasis also known as Bilharzia is an acute and chronic…
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Cholera vaccination

Cholera vaccination campaign begins in north-eastern Nigeria

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Training in session

WHO supports capacity building for enforcement of and compliance with tobacco control regulations in Zanzibar

The government of Zanzibar recently endorsed tobacco control…
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Children and adults are receiving the vaccine across disaster-affected areas

Emergency cholera vaccination campaign kicks off in Sierra Leone

FREETOWN, 15 September 2017 – Sierra Leone’s first ever Oral Cholera…
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