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How wastewater surveillance is helping the COVID-19 fight

How wastewater surveillance is helping the COVID-19 fight

Accra/Lusaka/Pretoria —Twice a week, a team of scientists from South…
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Mauritania’s new emergency response teams clear first hurdle

Mauritania’s new emergency response teams clear first hurdle

Nouakchott – In late August 2022 Mauritania’s health authorities…
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Sierra Leone vaccinates 70% of its population against COVID-19, meets global target

Sierra Leone vaccinates 70% of its population against COVID-19, meets global target

Freetown 21 December 2022 – Sierra Leone has achieved the global…
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Sierra Leone vaccinates 70% of its population against COVID-19, meets global target

Sierra Leone vaccinates 70% of its population against COVID-19, meets global target

Freetown 21 December 2022 – Sierra Leone has achieved the global…
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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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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

Accra, Ghana - Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) have become a…
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Aminata Kaoucen, Nurse

Aminata Kaoucen, Nurse

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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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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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Health Data Communications Bootcamp in Botswana

Statisticians and journalists of Botswana learn to better interpret and communicate health data

Statistics Botswana in collaboration with the OECD's Partnership in…
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