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Meet team WHO: Dr Fiona Braka, Team Lead, Emergency Operations

Meet team WHO: Dr Fiona Braka, Team Lead, Emergency Operations

A public health professional with an MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Dr Fiona Braka has worked for World Health Organization (WHO) for the past 18 years supporting countries, including her native Uganda, Ethiopia and Nigeria, to build capacity to deliver vaccines. She is now bringing her vast experience in polio eradication and broader immunization to support the continent’s fight against disease outbreak emergencies and humanitarian crises.
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COVID-19 deaths in Africa surge more than 40% over previous week

COVID-19 deaths in Africa surge more than 40% over previous week

Africa has recorded a 43% week-on-week rise in COVID-19 deaths, as hospital admissions increase rapidly and countries face shortages in oxygen and intensive care beds.
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Home-based care boosts Nigeria’s COVID-19 fight

Home-based care boosts Nigeria’s COVID-19 fight

Lagos – When Zainab Olowoyo got COVID-19, she was one of thousands of people residing in the populous Lagos State whose case was not severe enough for her to be sent to the nearest isolation unit. Instead, Olowoyo received hospital-level care in her own home through a Home-Based Care programme implemented by the state government in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). She had a smooth recovery and was cleared of the virus within 10 days.
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Les officiels : le Directeur Général du Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Solidarité Nationale, Dr Ismaël Barh Bachar (au centre) entouré du Représentant de l’OMS (à droite) et la représentante du Directeur Pays de l’ONUSIDA (à gauche)

Au Tchad, l’OMS invite les prestataires à travailler davantage sur le diagnostic précoce du VIH chez les nourrissons et l’accès à la charge virale des Personnes vivant avec le VIH sous traitement.

Le Repré

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Her Excellency First Lady of Ghana, Rebecca Akufo-Addo with other high profile personalities who attended the function

Ghana’s First Lady Advocates for Good Nutrition

The First Lady of the Republic of Ghana, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo has lauded an initiative to mobilize community support in promoting good nutrition and called on all to help intensi
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Items donated to support Ghana's COVID Response efforts

World Bank support strengthens clinical management of COVID-19 in Ghana

Ghana embarked on intense actions to contain the coronavirus outbreak since the first two cases were confirmed on 12 March 2020. Public health measures such as mandatory wearing of facemasks in public places, social distancing, and hand hygiene were instituted to curtail the spread of the virus. For optimal care of those infected with coronavirus, various guidelines were adapted and isolation/treatment facilities were quickly identified and equipped to receive and manage suspected and confirmed cases.
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Community informants’ network consolidating AFP surveillance to sustain polio eradication gains in Nigeria

Abuja, 12 July 2021 - As a health worker and a patent medicine vendor living in Gubio 1 ward, Borno State, Dauda Ahmed encourages members of his community to no

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WHO renews North-East Nigeria’s Health Emergency grading at highest level, targets >8 million vulnerable populations for increased health services

Abuja, 9 July, 2021 - The humanitarian crisis in Nigeria’s North-eastern BAY (Borno, Adamawa and Yobe) remains protracted, with an estimated eight million peopl

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