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WHO Pledges Continued Support to Strengthen South Sudan’s Health System

Juba, South Sudan, 11 December 2014 - In continued efforts to strengthen the health service delivery system in South Sudan, WHO supported the Ministry of Health

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Ebola awareness campaign with community leaders in Djera, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on hand hygiene, safe burials during the Ebola outbreak.

The country that knows how to beat Ebola

In DRC there was long experience with Ebola – this was the seventh outbreak of the disease here.

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Liberia: Sharing his experience fighting Ebola

“When the outbreak first started in March and we heard about this deadly virus Ebola, I was in Kakata,” says Austin S.

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Scaling-up of effective malaria control dramatically reduces deaths

The number people dying from malaria has fallen dramatically since 2000 and malaria cases are also steadily declining, according to the "World malaria report 2014".

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Sharing his experience fighting Ebola

“When the outbreak first started in March and we heard about this deadly virus Ebola, I was in Kakata,” says Austin S.

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L-R: Dr Julie Jacobson, Uniting to Combat NTDs; (podium) Dr Abdissa Kurkie, DPC Director, MoH of Ethiopia; Mr Xavier Daney, Senior Legal Officer, WHO; Dr Damas Bodzongo, Representative of the Minister of Health of the DRC; Dr Kesetebirhan Admasu, Minister of Health of Ethiopia; Dr Jean Baptiste Roungou, Director of APOC; Dr Pierre M'pele-Kilebou, WHO Representative in Ethiopia; Dr Adrian Hopkins, Executive Secretary of GAELF.

The 20th Session of the Joint Advisory Forum (JAF) of the African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC) Opens in Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa.

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WHO Representative visits Kigezi region

Kabale, 8th December 2014:- The World Health Organization Representative (WR) for Uganda, Dr.

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A vaccinator administering the polio vaccine to a child

The Gambia Successfully Completed 2nd round of National Immunization Days (NIDs) 2014

Polio with 950 vaccination teams covering a target population of 416740 for children 0 – 5 months.

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