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WHO Technical Officer providing technincal support to health workers on marburg

World Health Organization turns 75 On World Health Day

Today, on World Health Day, World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates its 75th anniversary. In 1948, countries of the world came together and founded WHO to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable – so everyone, everywhere can attain the highest level of health and well-being. 
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Outbreak response training bolsters Mozambique’s cholera control

Outbreak response training bolsters Mozambique’s cholera control

Dr Cremildo Rajabo has new confidence entering the cholera treatment centre in Lichinga district in northern Mozambique, one of the areas hardest-hit by the outbreak.
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WHO75 walk the talk led by Para medical students

Celebrating 75 years of extraordinary- WHOs 75th Anniversary campaign launched in Liberia

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Nyatuka Othow and her children received oral cholera vaccine

Reactive cholera vaccination campaign kicks off in Malakal

At a vaccination center set under a neem tree in Hai Jalaba neighbourhood in Malakal town, Nyatuka Othow arrived with her three children, aged one, three and five years respecti

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Enhancing preparedness to tackle rising zoonotic diseases in Africa

Enhancing preparedness to tackle rising zoonotic diseases in Africa

The ongoing Marburg virus disease outbreaks in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania are the latest of several zoonotic diseases reported in the African region.
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A patient on IV fluids at Ofatura PHC, Obabura

WHO supports Cross River State to combat cholera outbreak

Calabar, 4 April, 2023 - Cholera is endemic in Nigeria. It is highly contagious and occurs in places without safe water and proper sanitation.

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Elizabeth, a 7-year-old girl from Dukwi Refugee Camp in Botswana shows her marked finger after receiving her polio vaccine.

Botswana ran a polio supplementary vaccination campaign

Botswana conducted a two-round polio supplementary vaccination campaign against the circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Virus type 2 (cVDPV2) in early 2

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WHO personnel counselling a TB Patient

Osun State not taking its foot off the pedal in the fight against Tuberculosis

Osun, 31 March, 2023 - “I was coughing out blood persistently for weeks, had fever, weakness, night sweats, severe chest pain.

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