23rd to 29th May, NCDs Awareness week: Screening for Diabetes

Rwanda commemorates the World Health Day 2016

Rwanda celebrated World Health Day on 29th May 2016 in an event…
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Uganda marks World No Tobacco Day 2016 and Launches the Tobacco Control Act 2015

Kampala, 1st June 2016 - As Uganda marked the World No Tobacco…
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Man wearing tshirt with text "together we shall overcome Ebola" at a social mobilization event in Guinea WHO /Cristiana Salvi

End of Ebola transmission in Guinea

Brazzaville, 1 June 2016 - Today the World Health Organization (WHO)…
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A performance by pupils during WMD

The Commemoration of World Malaria Day 2016 in Zambia

Lusaka, 30 May 2016 - The commemoration of the World…
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WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, calls on African countries to adopt plain packaging of tobacco products

Brazzaville, 31 May 2016 - The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr…
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Kaduna State Deputy Governor addressing participants at the retreat

Government collaborates with WHO and partners to deploy polio assets for strengthening routine immunization and primary healthcare.

Kaduna, 31 May 2016 - Kaduna State is working with partners, notably…
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Participants and facilitators at the disaster risk management workshop, Golden Peacock Hotel in Lilongwe

WHO supporting Malawi to conduct a disaster risk prioritization and profiling

Lilongwe, 17 - 19 May 2016 - The Disaster Risk profiling workshop,…
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Dr Goosby (1st left) Mrs Oshibajo (middle) and Dr Vaz (1st right) at the opening ceremony of the TB conference

UN Envoy proposes private sector partnership to clear MDR-TB treatment waiting list in Nigeria by end of 2016

Abuja, 28 May 2016 - The United Nations (UN) Special Envoy for…
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