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Ethiopia launches Human Papillomavirus Vaccine for 14 year old girls
Ethiopia plans to vaccinate more than 1 million 14-year-old girls against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV).
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A big move in bridging journalists and Public Health Emergency: WHO Ethiopia trains Journalists on PHE reporting
WHO Ethiopia trains journalists on public health emergency (PHE) reporting from Nov 19-20, 2018; at Bishoftu Liesak Resort. The training was facilitated by Senior Producer at Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) and Yimer Dawod Deputy Editor – in-Chief at Fana Broadcasting Corporate (FBC) who have been trained in Nirobi by WHO AFRO in 2018.
Read moreEthiopia marked the 3rd World Antibiotic Awareness Week
This year’s World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW) commemoration event was organized by the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH), Ethiopian Food, Medicine and Health Care Administration and Authority (FMHACA), V…
Read moreWHO Ethiopia conducts a team building workshop: “One team, one goal!”
WCO conducted a one day team building workshop on 22nd Nov, 2018 at Desalegn Hotel in Addis Ababa. The objective of this workshop was to enhance team spirit, staff motivation and morale, improve the ability to solve problem of the country office through individual contribution, and overall improves the organizational productivity towards contributing to the new ways of working in WHO.
Read moreEthiopia to vaccinate more than 1 million people against yellow fever
The Ethiopian Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners, today started a second vaccination campaign to protect high-risk populations against yellow fever. More than 1.3 million people will be protected in this seven day campaign, which follows a smaller, more focused campaign in October.
Read moreThe MoH launches the 7th round National Health Account (NHA)
Addis Ababa, Oct. 18 2018: Ethiopia launches the 7th round National Health Account (NHA). . A health account (HA) aims to generate up-to-date empirical evidence on spending in health care in order to inform health policy formulation and development. The Ethiopian government is committed to track spending on health regularly every two or three years and six rounds of health accounts were conducted since the HA introduced in to the country in 2000.
Read moreJoint Statement on World Polio Day: WHO, UNICEF and Rotary International reaffirm their commitments to stop off polio in the Horn of Africa.
WHO, UNICEF and Rotary International United join forces to fight two outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) in the region.
Read moreCountries from IGAD team up to end polio: The three Ministers of Health jointly launch to vaccinate about six million under five children.
Addis Ababa, 19, September 2018: Four countries from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) signed a communique on polio eradication in Garissa, Kenya on 14th September 2018. The communique underscored the need to combine and strengthen the effort of Horn of Africa countries currently responding to an outbreak of poliovirus detected in environmental surveillance and human case samples from Somalia and Kenya. The polio outbreak has been classified as a Grade 2 Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The detection of poliovirus in these two IGAD countries leaves the remaining five IGAD member states (Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda and Djibouti) at high risk for similar outbreaks due to population movement.
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