The Ministry of Health has received an additional 2,800 oxygen cylinders and 48,172,700 syringes from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany to support the continued fight against COVID-19 and other health complications in the country.

14 de Junho – A OMS, junto com o Ministério da Saúde Pública e parceiros, celebrou hoje o Dia Internacional do Dador de Sangue. Este dia visa homenagear a todos os doadores de sangue e conscientizar a população sobre a importância da doação de sangue, acto que é responsável pela salvação de milhares de vidas humanas.

The World Health Organization Country Office for South Africa, in partnership with the National Department of Health (NDoH) and Clinton Health Access Initiative, organized a policy workshop on Strengthening Health Systems Resilience Towards Universal Health Coverage on 19^th  and 20^th May 2022 in Cape Town.

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 circulating Vaccine Derived poliovirus (cVDPV2), the community leader, Chief Babafemi Ogunmade was not surprised. 

“We are aware that some vaccinators were coming to vaccinate our children against the polio and other diseases and we have been expecting them. 

Ondo, 9 June, 2022 - As with other emergencies, the World Health Organization (WHO) swiftly moved to support the Ondo State Government to provide technical assistance and facilitate the provision of critical medical services to victims of the Owo attack.

On 06 June 2021, Owo community was attacked as gunmen gained entrance into a church and killed more than 20 worshippers, leaving some critically wounded. 

To immediately support affected communities, WHO also donated drugs, medical equipment, and consumables to the State Government.

When her 11-month old son, Abdulnasir, refused to breastfeed or eat his food, Amina knew something was seriously wrong with him. He had had diarrhea, vomiting and fever for more than a week, but it was when he kept crying in pain, stopped feeding altogether and got very weak that she got alarmed and brought him to Gode Hospital in Somali Region.

“I called each of my children to make sure they take my grandchildren for polio vaccination,” this is how serious polio vaccination is to Faith Daudi Malungo, a grandmother resident of Mkoka village in Kongwa Tanzania.

Dar es Salaam, 2 June 2022: Tanzania has launched a third round of intensified COVID-19 vaccination that aims to revitalize uptake of vaccines in a bid to reach 70 percent of the eligible population and attain herd immunity.

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Abuja, 2 June, 2022 - Ernest Ajayi, a 45 years-old civil servant who resides in Abuja, recalls that he picked up smoking because he thought “smoking made people look successful, classy and respected”. 

He said growing up, many movies portrayed the rich and influential people were smokers and that enticed him to start smoking in his early twenties at the university.