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Benin: WHO’s medical detectives work with national health authorities to solve a mystery

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Departing personnel at the farewell ceremonny

Cuban Ebola responders depart Sierra Leone

The last batch of Ebola responders from the Cuban Medical Brigade will depart Sierra Leone on 1 April 2015, following a farewell ceremony with local dignitaries on Monday, 30 Ma

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Implementing the WHO End TB Strategy: Lessons from Prevalence Survey

Accra, 31 March 2015 - Ghana has just ended a two day discussions on a comprehensive response to end the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic in line with the WHO End TB Strategy.

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Mr Garry Conille, UNOPS Regional Director for Africa, and Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for the African Region, sign MOU on health care delivery in Africa.

WHO and UNOPS Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Scale-Up their Partnership in Health Care Delivery in Africa

29 MARCH 2015 | ADDIS ABABA - The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today to

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Health authorities initiate multisectoral anti-rabies campaign in Luanda

Viana (Luanda/Angola), 30 March 2015 - A vaccination campaign against rabies in animals was launched on 27 March by Angolan authorities in Viana.

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Malawi and Mozambique cross border meeting participants at Mwanza hotel in Malawi on 25 March 2015

WHO convened cross-border meeting between Malawi and Mozambique to intensify cholera outbreak control

Lilongwe, 27 March 2015 – The WHO country office in Malawi on 25 March convened a meeting between Malawi and Mozambique in the Mwanza district to discuss the cholera outbreak si

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WHO supports Research on Rotavirus diarrhea

Kampala, 27th March 2015:- Mulago National Referral Hospital received  Rotaviral testing equipment from the World Health Organization (WHO) to be used in the se

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Yemisi Ighodalo, a lab technician at work in the EMLAB mobile laboratory in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Nigerian mobile lab in Sierra Leone: bringing skills learned in one outbreak to another

A Nigerian mobile lab has been operating in Sierra Leone as part of the international effort to help test Ebola samples in the current outbreak.

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