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Pricing and competition in specialist medical services, an overview for South Africa

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has…
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Boy sits under insecticide-treated bed net in Wonchit kebele, Dera Woreda, Amhara Region, Ethiopia.

Small Bite, Big Threat

Ethiopia Intensifies Action against Vector-Borne Diseases.
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L-R: Dr Samuel Okiror, WHO Horn of Africa Polio Coordinator, WHO; Dr Pierre M’Pele-Kilebou, WHO Representative to Ethiopia; Dr Kebede Worku, State Minister of Health; Mr Ali Abdullahi, Governor of Somaliland; Mr Abdufatah Mohammed Hassen, Vice President of Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State and Head of the Somali Regional Health Bureau; Mr Muhyadin Abdi, Mayor of Togwajale.

Cross-Border immunization activities step up polio eradication efforts in the Horn of Africa

Jigjiga. 13 June 2014 – Synchronized polio supplementary…
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Cheap and effective vaccines are available to prevent polio. PHOTO: WHO Ethiopia/ Julie Pudlowski

Protecting Progress towards Polio Eradication

WHO Declares Polio Spread Public Health Emergency of International…
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The high-level delegation with Doollo Zonal Administration in Warder, 14 June 2014.

High-level Delegation Reaffirms Commitment to Strengthen Polio Eradication Support to Doollo Zone, Somali Region

Warder.
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WHO rapid assessment team at Kule Refugee Camp.

WHO Steps Up Efforts to Address the Health Emergency at Kule Refugee Camp in Gambella

More than 124,000 refugees have fled South Sudan to Ethiopia…
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Mobile phones help people with diabetes to manage fasting and feasting during Ramadan

Mariama Diallo, aged in her sixties, was diagnosed with diabetes ten…
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First lady presenting certificate to a milestone blood donor

Zimbabwe calls for “safe blood to save mothers”

Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe: 14 June 2014 - Zimbabweans were called…
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