Highlights in Ghana

There is no confirmed EVD case reported in Ghana to date.
Ongoing surveillance for EVD as part of surveillance for viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHF)
Highlights in neighbouring countries as of 31 May, 2014

The Health Accounts Teams Members from 12 countries that are in the process of undertaking a health accounts exercise and taking steps to institutionalize the process have completed a WHO training on System of Health Accounts (SHA) that took place from 26 – 30 May 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa. The participating countries were Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Namibia, Nigeria, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.

The Peer Learning District Initiative

The Peer Learning District Initiative was born following concerns raised by stakeholders about the level of performance of district health systems in Tanzania. The idea is for districts that are lagging behind to learn from districts that have made progress in improving health service provision. 

27 May 2014 – On World No Tobacco Day (31 May), WHO calls on countries to raise taxes on tobacco to encourage users to stop and prevent people from becoming addicted to tobacco.

Mr Michael Tukuru has recently been reassigned to WCO South Africa as the Operations Officer effective 26 May 2014. Previous to this assignment, he has spent the last 5 years in the Regional Office in Brazzaville Congo occupying different positions including Administrative Officer, EPR/IDS Programmes, and Manager of the Management Support unit for the DPC Cluster and subsequently the HPR/HSS Clusters. Prior to his work in Brazzaville, he spent 9 years in WCO Nigeria leaving as the Finance Officer.

24 May 2014 - The Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly closed today, after adopting more than 20 resolutions on public health issues of global importance. A number of the Health Assembly resolutions were approved today.

Beatrice Awar (17) is typical Ugandan teenager, full of life, ambition and grand dreams about a comfortable future. 

As she prepares the millet supper for the family one evening, Beatrice, who is in Senior 2 at Progress Academy, Abim Town Council in northern Uganda shares her dream.

“I want to be a nurse; God help me. I should know sciences and I should remain prayerful and protect myself from boys. I want to avoid early pregnancy and HIV” she says. 

The United Republic of Tanzania is among the eight countries piloting Delivering as One (DaO) since 2007 as part of the UN Reform. Consequently the UN in Tanzania is mandated to innovate and experiment with ways of planning, implementing and reporting as One for enhanced coherence, effectiveness and efficiency through the UN Development Assistance Plan (UNDAP) 2011-2015.

WHO Mental Health Report on Refugee Camps in Gambella Region 10 – 17 May 2014, Gambella, Ethiopia

WHO Mental Health Report on Refugee Camps in Gambella Region

Addis Ababa. 29 April 2014 – The 18th meeting of the WHO Alliance for Global Elimination of Trachoma by 2020, GET2020, opened on 28 April 2014 at the United Nations Conference Center in Addis Ababa, in the presence of Dr Kesetebirhan Admasu, Honorable Minister of Health of Ethiopia, Dr Pierre M’pele-Kilabou, WHO Representative in Ethiopia, and Dr Dirk Engels, Director of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases at WHO Headquarters.