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Botswana is first country with severe HIV epidemic to reach key milestone in the elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission

Botswana is first country with severe HIV epidemic to reach key milestone in the elimination of mother-to-child HIV transmission

Brazzaville, Geneva, Nairobi – Botswana has become the first high-…
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HIV testing

HIV/AIDS services must remain crucial during the COVID-19 outbreak

This year’s commemoration of World AIDS Day occurs in a complicated…
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WHO delivers 500 cylinders to EPHI as part of the donation of 3000 cylinders to support COVID-19 case management in Ethiopia

WHO donates 3,000 oxygen cylinders to the Ethiopian Public Health Institute to strengthen the capacity of COVID-19 treatment centres

01 December 2021, Addis Ababa – On 30 November 2021, the World Health…
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Strengthening management of childhood cancer in Zimbabwe

By Vivian Mugarisi Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe is making great…
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Nutrition symposium held in Kampala

Ministry of Health, WHO, UNICEF and partners discuss advancing the nutrition agenda in Uganda

Kampala, 29 November 2021 - The World Health Organization (WHO…
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WHO Representative, Dr Charles Sagoe-Moses delivering his closing remarks at the Namibia Health Sector Performance Review

The Ministry of Health and Social Services in Namibia held its Health Sector Performance review

The Ministry of Health and Social Services in Namibia in…
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WHO stands with African nations and calls for borders to remain open

WHO stands with African nations and calls for borders to remain open

Brazzaville – As a growing number of countries impose flight…
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WHO Representative, Dr Charles Sagoe-Moses delivering his closing remarks at the Namibia Health Sector Performance Review

The Ministry of Health and Social Services in Namibia held its Health Sector Performance review

The Ministry of Health and Social Services in Namibia in…
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WHO stands with African nations and calls for borders to remain open

WHO stands with African nations and calls for borders to remain open

Brazzaville – As a growing number of countries impose flight…
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WHO COVID-19 Response Coordinator sensitizing drivers on the need for Low speed in commemoration of the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims in Ondo State

Stakeholders wade in to contain road accidents and attendant effects on Nigeria

Ondo, 26 November, 2021 - “It has not been an easy journey for me,…
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