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Yemisi Ighodalo, a lab technician at work in the EMLAB mobile laboratory in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Nigerian mobile lab in Sierra Leone: bringing skills learned in one outbreak to another

A Nigerian mobile lab has been operating in Sierra Leone as part of…
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Elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV campaign launched in Western Uganda

Hoima, 27 March 2015:- The First Lady of Uganda Hon.
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L-R: Dr Pierre M'Pele-Kilebou, WHO Representative; Mr Bornwell Kantande UNHCR Deputy Representative; Mr Kazuhiro Suzuki, Ambassador of Japan ; Mr Gatluak Tut Khot, President of Gambella Regional State of Ethiopia; Mr Mohamed Diab, WFP Country Director a.i

Japan announces support to WFP, WHO and UNHCR to assist South Sudanese refugees and Ethiopian host community in Gambella

ADDIS ABABA - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UN…
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Central African Republic: health emergency at a crossroads

25 March 2015 -- While there have been slight improvements
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The Minister of Health (3rd left) and WR at the World TB Day

2015 World TB Day: Nigeria unites against tuberculosis.

Abuja, 24 March 2015 - The Federal Government has renewed its…
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Speech of Deputy Director General, RBCMinistry of Health, Father Jean Baptiste Mazarati

World TB Day 2015: No one in Rwanda should be left behind in fight against TB

On 24 March, WHO Rwanda organized World Tuberculosis Day under the…
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Nigeria inaugurates National Laboratory Containment Committee for polio virus.

Abuja, 23 March 2015 - The Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) has…
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WHO participating in training Muslim community burial team

Empowering communities to conduct safe burial practices

Monrovia, 20 March 2015 - To curb reemergence of unsafe burial…
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