New WHO Country Representative to Nigeria, Dr. Wondimagegnehu Alemu (1st Right), In a Maiden Meeting with Cluster Coordinators and Programme Managers in Abuja on 28th November, 2016
WHO’s support to the response of the acute watery diarrhoea outbreak in Ethiopia’s Somali Region
July 2017 - The Government of Ethiopia, through the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) and the Regional Health Bureaus (RHBs) with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners is responding to an outbreak of Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) in Amahara, Oromia, SNNP and Somali regions. To support the government’s response implementation, WHO has deployed surge teams of experts in surveillance, case management, WASH, nutrition, risk communication, administration and logistics to the affected regions to support implementation of response activities.