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State Minister of Primary Health Care with Japanese Ambassador, WHO Representative and Mayor of Kicukiro were present

Japan joins Rwanda to emphasize community engagement as a pillar of Ebola Prevention

The Ambassador of Japan to Rwanda, His Excellency Mr. Takayuki Miyashita, joined Rwanda to emphasize community engagement in preventing Ebola. Mr.Tukayuki along with Dr.

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835 000 people to receive second dose of the cholera vaccine in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

835 000 people to receive second dose of the cholera vaccine in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

The second phase of an oral vaccination campaign to protect more than 835 000 people from cholera in the North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) begins today. While North Kivu has been struggling with an outbreak of Ebola virus disease for more than a year, this north-eastern province is also endemic for cholera.
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Pilot Health Center WHO PEN training session

Cabo Verde adopts WHO package of essential noncommunicable diseases interventions for primary health care

Cabo Verde is reinforcing its primary health care system implementing the World Health Organization (WHO) package of essential noncommunicable diseases interventions (WHO PEN). These package is going to help the country to improve efficiency and quality of care to control and reduce the impact of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). The WHO PEN is an innovative and action-oriented set of cost-effective interventions that can be delivered to assure an acceptable quality of care, even in resource-limited settings.
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Participants from Ministries of Health- Botswana, Eritrea, Eswatini, The Republic of South Sudan, Uganda and Zambia and the WHO

WHO builds Capacity of Six African Countries to Strengthen Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition 

Entebbe, 29th October 2019:- The Ministry of Health, with support from the World Health Organization (WHO), is conducting a five-day workshop to build the capac

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Regional partnership promoting high-impact ideas for a healthier Africa is announced

Regional partnership promoting high-impact ideas for a healthier Africa is announced

Addis Ababa, 28 October 2019 – The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) today in Addis Ababa unveiled a strategic partnersh

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Paediatrics testing, at the Kubwa General Hospital. Credits_ FMOH_CDC

Government strives to make medication, support available for HIV-positive children

Abuja, 29 October, 2019 - Five-year-old Hadiza Malami* and her siblings were born with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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A happy mother and her child after vaccination

Uganda scores highly in the Measles-Rubella-Polio vaccination campaign

Kampala, 25 October 2019-: In the recently concluded Measles-Rubella-Polio campaign conducted by Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MoH) with support from GAVI, the V

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Photo with children on WPD

WHO, UNICEF and Rotary International Joint Statement on WPD: WHO, UNICEF and Rotary International urge to sustain the gain in eradicating polio and continue their joint effort for the end result

24th October 2019 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Marking the commemoration of World Polio Day 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and Rotary International, jointly reaffirm their commitment to the fight against polio. As we commemorate World Polio Day 2019 for the 7th time in Ethiopia, the WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who is also Chair of the GPEI Polio Oversight Board and the Global Commission for the Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication (GCC) in Geneva, Switzerland are co-hosting the web-based event today to declare the Wild poliovirus Type 3 is eradicated globally.
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