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Mr Berhane Gebretnsae, Director General of Medical Services expressing his comments to the researchers

Eritrea: Traditional Medicine Research Dissemination Workshop

WHO jointly with MOH had conducted a research dissemination workshop…
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Honorable Minister of Health Jappie Mhango MP holding the UN Interagency Task Force award for NCD prevention and control

Malawi receives the UN Interagency Task Force award for instituting strategic steps towards the prevention and control NCD

Lilongwe 9 October - On 23 September 2019, during the United…
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Dr Mwesha

From one Ebola front line to another in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Dr Didier Mwesha, WHO Infection Prevention and Control Expert

As Didier Mwesha passed his one-year anniversary on the front lines…
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The future of public health response is here: WHO summit explains the lives it will save

The future of public health response is here: WHO summit explains the lives it will save

It was the tenth outbreak for its neighbour, but it was the closest…
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Dr. Djamila Cabral WHO Representative in Mozambique

WHO Mozambique thanks donors for supporting health access to 1 million people in cyclone-affected areas from acute to recovery phases

MAPUTO – 8 October 2019 As the health response to cyclones Idai and…
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Dr Matshidiso Moeti

430 days and 1000 victories in the fight against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Statement from Dr Matshidiso Moeti Today, amid our unrelenting work…
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Kasereka Miyisa Jophet is an Ebola survivor from Butembo. Credit: UNEERO/Martine Perret

1000 Ebola survivors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

  JOINT PRESS RELEASE BY THE EERC, WHO, WFP, UNICEF and SAVE…
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Claude MABOWA, a successful baccalaureate candidate and Ebola survivor

Surviving Ebola and passing final school exams while in treatment isolation: Now bring on the future

Days before the most important exams of his life – the exams that…
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Dear parents and neighbours – A young mother tells her story of Ebola denial and then gratitude for treatment

Dear parents and neighbours – A young mother tells her story of Ebola denial and then gratitude for treatment

When 33-year-old Kanyere Vwatire first left a health facility, it was…
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Photo: WHO/Kisimir Jonh Shim

An emergency vaccination point for children offers a mother relief against measles in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

As her bus approached the town of Masi Manimba, Rosette Mboma heard a…
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