Kenya remains determined to keep the country free of the polio virus following a finding of a circulating vaccine-derived polio virus in an environmental water sample in Nairobi last April. 
Earlier in the month, the Ministry of Health launched Round Two of its planned polio campaign covering 12 counties at risk and targeting 2.8 under five children. Round Zero of the supplemental Immunization Activity was done in Nairobi only targeting 800,000 children while Round One done in July vaccinated 2.5 million children in the 12 counties. 

12 July 2018, Zanzibar: Following adoption of 16 WHA resolutions in Geneva in May, the Ministry of Health in Mainland and Zanzibar with support from the World Health Organization met to deliberate on the way forward in implementing the agreed global resolutions.

Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar, July 2018: Today, the World Health Organization provided the Ministry of Health Mainland and Zanzibar medicines and equipment for Ebola preparedness and control of Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases in the country.

Kampala, 23 August 2018:- In the wake of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda has heightened its surveillance and alertness at the Uganda-DRC border. This was revealed at a high-level breakfast meeting held at Golf Course Hotel in Kampala to brief the Diplomatic Corps, the Health Development Partners and the media in Uganda about the current outbreak in DRC and status of Uganda’s Ebola preparedness response.

Seychelles, 22 August 2018 - In response to the need to have a holistic information system that can continuously collect, analyse and interpret data related to nutrition, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is supporting the Ministry of Health in Seychelles to develop the country’s Nutrition Information System (NIS).

It's been just over a year since Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus took office as WHO Director-General. Here’s his first annual letter outlining the achievements made towards WHO’s mission “to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable”.

World Breastfeeding Week 2018 was observed in Eritrea under the theme, “Breastfeeding: Foundation for Life” at BERIK sub-region on 3 August 2018 in Erirea.

Dakar/ Brazzaville, 20 August 2018 - Ministers of Health and senior officials from 47 African countries will meet in Dakar, Senegal for the 68th session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa, scheduled to take place from 27 – 31 August 2018.