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RECAP training in session

Legislation is key to promotion of healthy diet and physical activity

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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Good health requires different sectors working together

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

Hon Minister of Health

Taking stock of health sector achievements and challenges

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

Walking together in the fight against non-communicable diseases

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

WHO team training community volunteers and health workers on the use of AVADAR in Gurai, South Sudan.

Fighting polio, one SMS at a time!

Health workers and community volunteers in remote and security-compromised areas across 10 African countries now rely on an SMS-based application to ferret out any possible poliovirus hiding in their midst.