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A child receiving oral polio vaccine during immunization campaign in Kano State

Canada sustains its funding support for polio and routine immunization in Nigeria.

Abuja, 16 May, 2016 – Today, the Government of Canada, through the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, announced a contrib

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Participants with the IM, Dr. Etsano and Dr Fiona Braka

State surveillance teams get orientation on certification standard documentation for polio eradication

Abuja, 10 May 2016 - Having interrupted the transmission of indigenous wild poliovirus in 2015 and put in place measures to further improve and sustain certification standard su

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Africa to Intensify Cancer Control through Cancer Registries

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Immunization will not be successful without Women Health Workers

Health workers in Ethiopia are mostly women and they are playing a key role in immunization.

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WHO Ethiopia Supported AEFI Causality Assessment TOT

Central EPI Team members supported the Ethiopian Food, Medicine and Health Care Administration and Control Authority (EFMHACA) to conduct a training of trainers (TOT) on Adverse

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The National Polio Laboratory Addis Ababa

Coordination Meeting Conducted at National Polio Laboratory in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

A coordination meeting was conducted at the National Polio Laboratory in Addis Ababa on April 5, 2015.

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African Vaccination Week ends in Nigeria with calls on Government to improve immunization and surveillance activities in security compromised areas and international borders.

Abuja, 09 May 2016 - The African Vaccination Week (AVW) ended in Nigeria with World Health Organization (WHO) calling on the Federal and State Governments to improve immunizatio

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Participants of the inter-regional workshop on household water treatment and safe storage

Inter-Regional Workshop on Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage

An Inter-regional workshop on strengthening evaluation, regulation and implementation of Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage (HWTS) was held in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa 3-5 May 2016. More than 50 participants from the Ministry of Water Irrigation and Electricity, Ministry of health, WHO, UNICEF and HWTS manufacturers attended the workshop. The participants were from Ethiopia, Kenya and Ghana.
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