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Optimizing vaccine uptake through training teachers and school boards

Optimizing vaccine uptake through training teachers and school boards

After two years of crippling with COVID-19 pandemic, the introduction…
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The Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy in the Gambia, Mr Jason Willis official handing over the vaccines to the Hon. Minister for Health, Dr. Ahmadou Lamin Samateh

US Government Donates Pfizer Vaccines to Government of The Gambia

Banjul - As the world grapples with the COVID-19, even though most…
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Nurses attending to a patient during a dialysis session at the EJS National Dialysis center

President Weah commissions Liberia’s first National Dialysis Center and names it in honour of his predecessor

Monrovia, March 2, 2022: Patients with acute and chronic renal…
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Rallying to combat COVID-19 rumours in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Rallying to combat COVID-19 rumours in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Kinshasa – It can be hard to tease apart fact from falsehood amid the…
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Dr Charles Sagoe-Moses, WHO Representative with Dr Leonard Kabongo, Chief Medical Officer with a team from MoHSS, WHO and Namibia Red Cross Society on a mission in Swakopmund in Erongo Region during the implementation of the HEV E interventions in 2020

End of the Hepatitis E Virus Outbreak in Namibia

On 2 March 2022 Namibians applauded their  government for…
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Malawi intensifies response after wild poliovirus detected

Malawi intensifies response after wild poliovirus detected

Lilongwe – Polio emergency response teams in Malawi are ramping up…
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Dr Charles Sagoe-Moses, WHO Representative with Dr Leonard Kabongo, Chief Medical Officer with a team from MoHSS, WHO and Namibia Red Cross Society on a mission in Swakopmund in Erongo Region during the implementation of the HEV E interventions in 2020

End of the Hepatitis E Virus Outbreak in Namibia

On 2 March 2022 Namibians applauded their  government for…
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Dr Charles Sagoe-Moses, WHO Representative with Dr Leonard Kabongo, Chief Medical Officer with a team from MoHSS, WHO and Namibia Red Cross Society on a mission in Swakopmund in Erongo Region during the implementation of the HEV E interventions in 2020

End of the Hepatitis E Virus Outbreak in Namibia

On 2 March 2022 Namibians applauded their  government for…
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MoHCC and WHO

Zimbabwe revives sleeping sickness case detection and management

By Tatenda Chimbwanda Kariba, Zimbabwe: Human African…
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COVID-19 takes a heavy toll on women’s health

COVID-19 takes a heavy toll on women’s health

Brazzaville, 3 March 2022 – Disruptions to essential health services…
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