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WHO Ethiopia COVID-19 Incident Management Team on a supportive supervision visit to the Gambella isolation and treatment center set up in the Gambella University premises

How Ethiopia prepared its health workforce for the COVID-19 response

Health workers are vital to the global response to COVID-19. With…
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Working with the media in Nigeria’s COVID-19 fight

Working with the media in Nigeria’s COVID-19 fight

Abuja – When Regina Otokpa, an Abuja-based journalist, co-authored a…
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COVID_19 Update Rwanda

Update COVID-19 02 December 2020

02 December 2020 — Forty-six (46) new COVID-19 cases were identified…
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Battling COVID-19 rumours and hoaxes in Angola

Battling COVID-19 rumours and hoaxes in Angola

Luanda – “COVID-19 doesn’t kill anybody in Angola as we are…
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Happy Family

Taking stock of the progress made by the SRHR Initiative in the African Region during the year 2020

WHO in the African Region has been implementing a four-year…
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Landmark alliance launches in Africa to fight COVID-19 misinformation

Landmark alliance launches in Africa to fight COVID-19 misinformation

Brazzaville - The World Health Organization (WHO) today launched…
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COVID_19 Update Rwanda

Update COVID-19 01 December 2020

01 December 2020 — Fourteen (14) new COVID-19 cases were identified…
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Over 3.3 million children vaccinated in Chad in large-scale polio campaign

Over 3.3 million children vaccinated in Chad in large-scale polio campaign

N’Djamena – More than 3.3 million children have been vaccinated…
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Training in progress

Health workers gain new knowledge to help reduce maternal and perinatal deaths in Zimbabwe

  By Vivian MugarisiHarare, Zimbabwe - Ensuring good…
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How the world’s highest HIV-prevalence country turned around, and in record time

How the world’s highest HIV-prevalence country turned around, and in record time

Mbabane – Because her government aggressively pursued treatment as…
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