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Kulle Refugee Camp in Gambella Region, western Ethiopia, currently hosts about 35,000 of the 97,000 refugees from South Sudan taking shelter in three camps in the region. Almost 66 per cent of the refugees in Kulle are women and children. The WHO assessment team led by the WHO Representative comprising technical experts in emergency and outbreak response, malaria, water and sanitation, immunization, and communication, witnessed the concerning health conditions at the camp on 22 April 2014 whilst assessing t

WHO takes urgent action to address health situation in Kulle South-Soudanese Refugee Camp, Gambella in Ethiopia

High-level officials of Dolo Zonal Administration with WHO Representative to Ethiopia and Deputy Head of Somali Regional Health Bureau in Warder, 15 April 2014.

WHO and Somali Region Intensify Joint Actions to Interrupt Polio Transmission

At the media orientation, the media representatives heard about the burden of vector-borne diseases and how they can be controlled and prevented.

Small Bite: Big Threat – Preventing Vector-borne Diseases in Ethiopia

Dr Ameha Kebede, Director of Ethiopian Public Health Institute, officially opening the meeting on behalf of the Minister of Health, 19 March 2014

Ethiopia poised to interrupt transmission of guinea-worm disease in 2014

Signing of MoU between the Ministry of Health and six training institutions

Ethiopia Scales up Mental Health Services into Primary Health Care

Pierre M’Pele-Kilebou, WHO Representative to Ethiopia; Garry Conille, UNOPS Regional Director for Africa; Bamidele Ilebani, UNOPS Country Coordinator for Ethiopia, Djibouti and South Sudan

WHO welcomes closer collaboration with UNOPS

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Ethiopia’s Fast and Aggressive Response to the Horn of Africa Polio Outbreak

WHO FCTC poster

Ethiopia Ratifies WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

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Ethiopia Newsletter Bulletin - 09, December 2013

The event brought together the diplomatic community, development partners, UN agencies, the private sector and the Ethiopian Government on 10 December 2013, to learn more about the Mekelle Debre Amin Abune Teklehaimanot Public Hospital and Medical College Project

Ethiopian Orthodox Church initiates a project to contribute to improvement of Health Services in Tigray