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Fighting Ebola from day one

Interview with Rob Fowler, a critical care physician from Canada, who worked in West Africa since the first confirmed cases of Ebola.

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Learn from the past to build better for the future

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Cuban medical team concludes a successful Ebola response support mission to Liberia

The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has produced increasing circles of victims beyond the infected and the dead.

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29th ERC: Nigeria well positioned to interrupt transmission of WPV

Abuja, Nigeria 23 January 2015 - The 29th Expert Review Committee (ERC) is convinced that Nigeria can get out of  WHO’s list of endemic countries with active wild polio virus (W

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Meningitis A vaccine now recommended in routine immunization schedules

Brazzaville, 20 January 2015 – The World Health Organization (WHO) now recommends the conjugate meningitis A vaccine MenAfriVac® to be introduced in routine imm

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More than 2.5 million people reached in emergency response campaign with anti-malarial medicines in Sierra Leone

Two successive emergency response campaigns in Sierra Leone to distribute anti-malarial drugs to people living in areas affected by the Ebola virus disease outbreak have success

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Government of Mali and WHO announce the end of the Ebola outbreak in Mali

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Zimbabwe hosts SADC Malaria Day

Vic. Falls, 16 Jan.

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