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Dr Kessetebirhan Admasu, Minister of Health, speaking at the launching event of the HSTP.

Ethiopia Launches Its Health Sector Transformation Plan

Ethiopia launched its ambitious five-year Health Sector…
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WHO handed over a Diarrheal Disease Kit (DDK) to the Sitti zone health bureau.

WHO Responds to El Niño Driven Emergency in Ethiopia

WHO has been providing health and nutritional support to communities…
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WHO handed over the Emergency Health Kit enough to benefit over 40,000 refugee and host community with different communicable diseases for three months.

WHO Commits to Improve Health Situation in Gambella, Ethiopia

Increasing reports of communicable diseases and presence of a large…
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Introductory briefing of the Rotarians at WHO Ethiopia

WHO and Rotary – Exemplary Partnership to End Polio in Ethiopia

Rotarians from the USA and Canada paid  a courtesy visit to WHO…
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Participants of World Polio Day Commemoration

WPD 2015 Colorfully Commemorated at Addis Ababa Assembly Hall

World Polio Day (WPD) was commemorated on 24 October 2015 at Addis…
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Muaz Reshid with a radiant smile at the hydrotherapy facility.

Inaugurating the Hydrotherapy Facility for Polio Rehabilitation – the first of its kind in Ethiopia

The Hydrotherapy Center established at the Cheshire Services Ethiopia…
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WHO-Rotary-UNICEF Joint Statement on World Polio Day 2015

ADDIS ABABA, 23 October 2015 | Marking the occasion of World Polio…
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Polio Goodwill Ambassador, e polio goodwill ambassador, Nimco Dareen, administering the two drops.

The 17th Polio Sub-National Immunization Days (SNID) Launched in a Colorful Event in Somali Region

The 17th Sub-National Immunization Days werelaunched on 8 October…
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No Child Left Behind - Capital Newspaper Interview with the WHO Representative in Ethiopia

No Child Left Behind - Capital Newspaper Interview with the WHO Representative in Ethiopia

Capital, a weekly business newspaper, interviewed Dr Pierre M'pele-…
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State Minister of Health, Dr Kebede Worku, planting a tree at the Heritage Trust site.

Tree Planting to Commemorate the Achievement: “Over a Year – Polio Free Ethiopia and Africa”

A tree planting event took place at Ethiopian Heritage Trust, Entoto…
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