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Participants and facilitators during the NTD training in Swakopmund, Namibia

Namibia received first training on prevention, management, and surveillance of Neglected Tropical Diseases

The Ministry of Health and Social Services trained f 60 health…
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Elna Christiana Rooi chose to self-medicate at home when she tested positive for COVID

‘The day COVID came into our house’

GOBABIS- As she reflects on the havoc the Delta variant of the SARS-…
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Field Operators monitoring the water bodies for larvae

AFRO 2- Malaria project changes lives

RUNDU - About ten kilometres on the eastern outskirts of Rundu is the…
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Julia Molapisi, the Acting Senior Health Programme Officer in the Ministry of Health and Social Services in the Omaheke region is pictured here with vaccines. The vaccines were packed in vaccine carriers/cold boxes in preparation for Maternal and Child Health days during an outreach programme.

Managing Routine Immunization during a Pandemic

INDHOEK - As the focus shifted towards managing the global Covid-19…
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World Health Organization and Government of Japan support maternal health at Kuisebmund Health Centre

WALVIS BAY- It is a Wednesday morning at the Kuisebmund Health Centre…
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Erwin Meroro was admitted to the COVID of the Gobabis State Hospital for over two months

Face to face with death… ‘I learned that nothing is impossible’

GOBABIS- Thirty four year-old Erwin Meroro believed he would never…
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Training on the Clinical Handbook for the health care of Survivors subjected to Intimate Partner Violence and/or Sexual Violence in Rundu

WHO’s GBV clinical handbook an eye-opener for doctors in Namibia

When Dr Ifeolu Oyedele first learned that he would be going for…
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Namibia AAR for Hepatitis E Virus Outbreak: Group Picture

Namibia conducts After Action Review for the 2017-2022 Hepatitis E Outbreak Response

Namibia declared the end of the Hepatitis E Virus (HEV) outbreak on…
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Group Photo

Namibia takes action to address hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccines

COVID-19 vaccination is key to control COVID-19 pandemic, however…
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Dr Charles Sagoe-Moses, WHO Representative and the Hon. Governor Bonifatius Wakudumo of the Kavango East Region in Mayana village in the Kavango East Region

Zero Malaria starts with me

Namibia’s malaria cases have been increasing steadily over the past…
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