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Eligible beneficiary of meningitis vaccination campaign in Yobe state implemented with technical support from WHO.

Germany boosts WHO’s strategies to support government-led interventions for vulnerable populations in the North-east 

Maiduguri, 26 June, 2020 - “Sometimes I wonder what our lives would have become without the intervention of the humanitarian organizations,” says Alhaji Umara M

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UN staff participating in Kalerwe Market to commemorate an UN day 2018

United Nations Wellness Program helping UN staff and their families cope with the effects of global COVID-19 pandemic

Kampala, 26 June 2020:-The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic whose initial case was first reported in the Wuhan Province of China in January 2019 has affe

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Muchaneta Samu (left) village health worker and Mathias Nziramasarira (right) the fisherman

Lessening bilharzia and worms burden during the COVID- 19 Pandemic – The story of Gache Gache Village.

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People queuing for TB screening in one of the mobile x ray vans

Zimbabwe on track to achieve the 2020 Global End TB Strategy milestones

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Delegates from the Ministry of Health

The Ninth WHO Global Forum for Government Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officers

The Ninth WHO Global Forum for Government Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officers (GCNMOs) and the Eighth Triad Meeting organized jointly by WHO, the International

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COVID_19 Update Rwanda

Update COVID-19 26 June 2020

26 June 2020 — Eight (8) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 3763 samples tested today.

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Kuisebmund Community Testing Centre in Walvisbay, Namibia

Walvis Bay COVID-19 Strategy: Test, Isolate and Treat

25 June 2020.   Namibia COVID-19 ca

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Building on Ebola response to tackle COVID-19 in DRC

Building on Ebola response to tackle COVID-19 in DRC

The Ebola outbreak in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was declared over today, almost two years since the first case was confirmed. The DRC Ministry of Health made the announcement after no new cases were reported 42 days since the last patient tested negative for the virus.
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