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A Training of the Trainers session on strengthening the health sector's response to violence against women in Uganda. Participants learn how to improve their referral plans by learning about the difficulties survivors face when being referred to various services.

Making health services a safe place for women: Uganda steps up to support women subjected to violence

In 2015, WHO worked with the Ministry of Health to update its national gender-based violence training manual. This manual is now used alongside WHO’s clinical and policy guidelines and its clinical handbook on responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence in weeklong workshops to train health care providers, community leaders and workers in the judicial system on how to deliver services to survivors of violence.
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Partial view of meeting participants

Experts ramp up efforts to leave no one behind

Brazzaville, 24 November 2017 - With growing momentum to ensure that everyone has access to good quality health, planning experts from 27 countries of the Regio

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Launching of the National Action Plan for Prevention and Containment of AMR by Cabinet Secretary Dr Cleopa Mailu. Looking on, WR Kenya Dr Rudi Eggers, PS Livestock Dept Dr Andrew Tuimur and members of the AMR team in Kenya

Call for behaviour change in antibiotic use and prescription

Kenya commemorated the World Anti-biotic Awareness Week on November 13-19 with a call for urgent action to avert antibiotic resistance which is leading to ineffective treatment of a growing number of infections.
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R to L Dr Akpaka Kalu, Representative to WHO Ethiopia in his address and Dr Mebratu Meles, State Minister to Ministry of Industry

Promoting Interagency Collaboration to Ensure Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Development in Ethiopia

A meeting on an interagency framework of collaboration for implementation of the National Strategy and Plan of Action for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Development in Ethiopia (NSPA-Pharma) was conducted in Addis Ababa from 14-15 November, 2017. The meeting was co-organized by WHO in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry and Ministry of Health and attended by various national & international organizations including UN agencies, international development partners, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Health Ethiopia and other stakeholders working in the area.
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Dr Moeti delivering her speech at the first WHO Global Ministerial Conference on ending TB in the sustainable development era

Political will and evidence-based action to end TB in the African Region a must – WHO Regional Director for Africa

23 November 2017 - World Health Organization (WHO) Africa Regional Director, Dr.

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Therapeutic efficacy studies involve microscopic examinations of blood films

Monitoring the efficacy of antimalarial medicines in Tanzania

Tanga, 17-22 November 2017:

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Mr Alex Freeman, handing over the water quality testing kit to the national public health laboratory technician in charge for water quality and safety testing.

WHO in collaboration with the Ministry of Health established water quality control testing hub within the National Public Health Laboratory to guide water safety management and prevent water-borne diseases in South Sudan

Juba, 21 November 2017:  The conflict coupled with the country's worsening economic crisis have more than doubled the cost of delivering water, sanitation and h

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Dr Lucien TOKO (DC/MS) et Dr J-P BAPTISTE (Rep. OMS Bénin)

Le Bénin a abrité l’atelier régional de formation sur la communication sur les risques lors des urgences sanitaires

(Cotonou, le 17 Novembre 2017) : une quarantaine de journalistes communiqu

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