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A health worker preparing a vaccine injection

Reaching more than 8 million children with the Measles Rubella vaccines

Evaline William sits on a wooden bench at a vaccination point, carrying on her lap two-year-old, Precious Wolfgang.

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

Participants in a group photo

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

A QoC facility QI meeting facilitated by a QI coach at a PHC in the FCT

Healthcare workers in Federal Capital Territory re-commit to improving maternal care

Abuja, 7 November, 2019 - Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are stepping up efforts to improve the quality of care (QoC)

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.

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Government’s attention shifts to Niger Delta creeks- renews efforts to vaccinate every eligible child in Bayelsa

Yenagoa, 7 November, 2019- In renewed efforts, not to leave any child needlessly exposed to vaccine-preventable diseases, the World Health Organization (WHO) a