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RECAP training in session

Legislation is key to promotion of healthy diet and physical activity

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Polio immunisation

Zambia launches polio immunisation campaign targeting more than 478, 500 children following an outbreak in the northern part of the country

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Participants in a group photo

Good health requires different sectors working together

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Group photograph_EIOS training in Abuja

WHO supports Nigeria to become first African country to adopt new epidemic intelligence tool

Abuja, 8 November, 2019 - In the short time it has existed, Nigeria’s public health institute, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has reported, aver

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Hon Minister of Health

Taking stock of health sector achievements and challenges

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Dr. Zainab Chaula, Permanent Secretary for Health delivering remarks during the NCD multistakeholder meeting

Walking together in the fight against non-communicable diseases

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Health specialist interacting with population

Angola assesses it’s capacity to respond to public health threats

Luanda, 08 November 2019 - The Ministry of Health, with the support of the WHO, held a technical meeting in Luanda to evaluate the national capacity to implemen

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Dr Elhadji Mamadou Mbaye

A Senegalese doctor reflects on what he’s learned from Congolese communities in the fight against Ebola

Dr Elhadji Mamadou Mbaye, from the West African country of Senegal, leads the Risk Communications and Community Engagement team for the World Health Organization’s

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