The Gambia News

World Breast feeding week was observed in The Gambia, from 1st to 7th August 2015. The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOH&SW), through the National Nutrition Agency (NaNA), in collaboration with WHO, UNICEF and other partners came up with activities to sensitize the public especially so, employers and their women employees on the importance attached to breastfeeding.

This year, WHO is encouraging people to “Support mums to breastfeed anytime, anywhere,” as all of society has a role to play in making our communities more breastfeeding-friendly.

The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOH&SW) in the Gambia in collaboration with WHO and MRC joined the rest of the international Community to commemorate World Tuberculosis Day (WTBD) on the 24th March. The theme for this year was “Unite to End TB”.

As part of activities to mark this important day a Press briefing was organized for the media fraternity and attended by partners. The event was hosted by the National Leprosy and TB office in Kanifing. 

Banjul, The Gambia, 24th August 2016 - The Gambia joined the rest of the international community to commemorate World Hepatitis Day in a form of a press briefing organized by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoH&SW) in collabo-ration with 

With the technical and financial support from WHO, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has initiated the process of developing an all-hazard health sector preparedness and response plan.

The unprecedented Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa spurred many countries in the 

Banjul, 15 July 2016 - As part of its advocacy efforts to promote and strengthen partnership for health development, WHO Gambia Country Office in collaboration with the Ministry of Health recently engaged a local Church to discuss noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and their risk actors. 

Despite the progress made in controlling the deadly Ebola Virus Disease epidemic in the West African Sub-

Health authorities and the WHO Country Office today held a fruitful meeting to discuss progress made and lessons learnt during implementation of the Programme Budget 2014-2015 as well as charting the way forward f

Banjul - 17 December 2015: The United Nation System  in the Gambia  joined the rest of the world in commemorating UN Day 2015 which was  observed on 24th October 2015. This year’s commemoration coincided with UN’s 70th anniversary under a global theme: Strong UN-Better World”.  The ceremony was hosted at the Kairaba Beach Hotel and was graced by the Diplomatic Mission, Senior government officials, civil society organizations and other partners, UN Staff and students.