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A member of community health champion providing health risk messaging. Photo_credit: Kingsley Igwebuike/WHO

 Community Champions create awareness on mpox among  vulnerable populations of Adamawa State

Yola, 20 December, 2022 - In August 2022, 31 years old Mrs Jenifer…
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A Mental health nurse prescribing drug to a patient at PHC Mala-Kachallah during the consultation. Photo credit: Kingsley Igwebuike/WHO

How mental health support is restoring hope in war-torn Nigeria

Maiduguri, 20 December, 2022 – "At some point, I lost it,” says…
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WCO Eritrea - Preventing and Responding to Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (PRSEAH) training is conducted

WCO Eritrea staff conducted in-house training on preventing and…
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Primary healthcare workers using WHO-PEN module to educate a woman about breast cancer before screening her at the Sunyani Municipal Hospital

Beating noncommunicable diseases through primary healthcare

In Ghana, NCDs account for 43% all-cause mortality, with major NCDs…
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Donated generator. Photo_credit: WHONigeria/ Igwebuikek

WHO boosts function of Maiduguri  Polio laboratory 

Borno, 15 December, 2022 - One of the 36 States in Nigeria, had been…
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WHO donates cholera supplies to the Ministry of Health to strengthen case management

Lilongwe - The World Health Organization (WHO) has donated additional…
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Aminata Kaoucen, Nurse

Aminata Kaoucen, Nurse

Aminata Kaoucen works as a nurse for a local NGO called Action pour…
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Cross section of dignitaries at the UHC press briefing in Abuja

 Reducing out-of-pocket health expenditure a panacea to universal health coverage 

Abuja, 13 December, 2022 - “I recall growing up in a comfortable home…
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