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African Health Ministers Endorse Five-Year Plan to Improve Access to Medicines

Dakar/Brazzaville, 29 August 2018 - Ministers of Health from the WHO…
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Honorable Minister of Health Dr Peter Kumpalume, MP speaking to participants at the opening ceremony of the TOT cervical cancer capacity building workshop

Stopping Cervical Cancer and other NonCommunicable Diseases in Africa

As she felt the cold sting of the needle enter her arm, Alice winced…
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Honorable Minister of Health Dr Peter Kumpalume, MP speaking to participants at the opening ceremony of the TOT cervical cancer capacity building workshop

Stopping Cervical Cancer and other NonCommunicable Diseases in Africa

As she felt the cold sting of the needle enter her arm, Alice winced…
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Participants at the meeting in Livingstone

WHO convenes a meeting for pilot testing of the 3rd edition of the Technical Guidelines for Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR)

Zambia is one of the three countries that have been selected for…
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African Health Ministers commit to ending cholera outbreaks by 2030

African Health Ministers commit to ending cholera outbreaks by 2030

28 August 2018, Dakar, Senegal – African Health Ministers have…
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Bekele NIS meeting

Seychelles sets course to establish a Nutrition Information System

Seychelles, 22 August 2018 - In response to the need to have a…
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Bekele NIS meeting

Seychelles sets course to establish a Nutrition Information System

Seychelles, 22 August 2018 - In response to the need to have a…
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Athanase Ndungo Bonane

EBOLA - Hope is at the end of the tunnel in Mangina - (East of the DRC)

Mangina (North Kivu), 17 August 2018 - "I was under a…
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Reactive vaccination in Danja LGA of Katsina

WHO supports Government to protect over 150,000 population at risk of Yellow fever in Katsina state.

Katsina, 13 August 2018 - The Federal Government with the support of…
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WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom and WHO Regional Director Dr Matshidiso Moeti visiting Ebola treatment centre in Mangina

WHO calls for free and secure access in responding to Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

BENI/BRAZZAVILLE 12 August 2018 – WHO’s global and African regional…
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