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WHO with funding from the Gavi Alliance donates 700 Tablets for COVID-19 Vaccination Data Collection, Monitoring and Evaluation to the Ministry of Health

WHO with funding from the Gavi Alliance donates 700 Tablets for COVID-19 Vaccination Data Collection, Monitoring and Evaluation to the Ministry of Health

On 10 June 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) in Zambia with the kind support of the Gavi Alliance donated 700 data collection electronic devices and related accessories

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Fuel crisis pumps up the pressure for Zambia’s Polio Mop-Up Campaign

Zambia’s polio mop-up reaches almost half a million children in 48 hours

Following a Polio outbreak in Malawi earlier this year, frontline health workers in Zambia distributed 4,5 million Oral Polio Vaccines (OPV) to children under five. During the campaign’s last stretch, or ´mop-up´ phase, teams revisited those who were missed, immunising close to 500,000 in the space of two days.
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MGAMB, Elizabeth Adhiambo- making a presentation

Eritrea scales up IDSR for prompt detection and effective response to monkeypox outbreak and other public health emergencies

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Participants of the policy workshop in Cape Town, South Africa.

Strengthening Health Systems Resilience Towards Universal Health Coverage in South Africa

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Child vaccination at Obele, a boundary town between Nigeria and Benin Republic

Nigeria combs communities to protect eligible children against polio

Abuja, 10 June, 2022 - When a team of vaccinators arrived in Obele, a boundary town between Nigeria and Benin Republic, to vaccinate children against the circul

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The WHO Country Representative, Dr Mulombo handing over donated items to Ondo state Commissioner for health Dr Ajaka.jpg

WHO ramps up support for Ondo State Government, following attack on community.

Ondo, 9 June, 2022 - As with other emergencies, the World Health Organization (WHO) swiftly moved to support the Ondo State Government to provide technical assi

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Little Abdulnasir is recovering from severe acute malnutrition at Gode Hospital SAM treatment centre. He is now strong enough to breastfeed and take semi-solid foods. WHO provides medical supplies to the treatment centre so that patients like Abdulnasir can recover and enjoy a health life.

Hope and restoration at Gode Hospital where ailing children receive life-saving treatment

When her 11-month old son, Abdulnasir, refused to breastfeed or eat his food, Amina knew something was seriously wrong with him.

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Mop-up priority zones also include areas with high population mobility. Should children miss a vaccination round because they are on the farm during the day, mop-up teams will go back in the evening, or for very remote areas, set up camp overnight to see the children early in the morning. Back at Palabana Clinic, Veria removes an OPV from the freezer for the two missed children identified earlier in the day. Vaccinator Brian and his team have rushed in. Shamaya. briefs them on the location of the household

Ramping up polio outbreak response in southern Africa

Following a case of wild poliovirus in February 2022 in Malawi, the country and four other geographically close nations kicked off a large-scale vaccination campaigns and ramped up disease surveillance to halt the debilitating virus.
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