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A JOINT GOVERNMENT OF ETHIOPIA AND UNITED NATIONS ETHIOPIA HIGH LEVEL MISSION VISITS DROUGHT AFFECTED COMMUNITIES IN SOMALI AND OROMIA REGIONS

A JOINT GOVERNMENT OF ETHIOPIA AND UNITED NATIONS ETHIOPIA HIGH LEVEL MISSION VISITS DROUGHT AFFECTED COMMUNITIES IN SOMALI AND OROMIA REGIONS

A joint high-level mission led by the Ministries of Health and Agriculture and supported by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), joi

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Ramping up COVID-19 vaccination among Kenya’s hard-to-reach communities

Ramping up COVID-19 vaccination among Kenya’s hard-to-reach communities

When Kenya’s Ministry of Health set its sights on reaching 10 million people with the COVID-19 vaccination by the end of 2021, many people like Lilian Anyango were not afraid of the myths circulating about the harm it could cause.
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Fatima at the MNCH session in Kwaya-kusar LGA. Photo_credit_ HTR team

North East Nigeria - providing essential health intervention in hard-to-reach communities one step at a time

Maiduguri, 19 February, 2022 - Relieved and smiling, Hassana Isa recounts the ordeal her daughter (Fatima), had to go through in the past months.

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Members of the Health leadership in Uganda assess medical equipment

Health Development Partners retreat to reflect on priority areas to focus on in support of the health agenda in Uganda

Kampala, 18 February 2022 - The Health Development Partners (HDP) group in Uganda held its annual retreat to reflect on the areas the group would like to focus on and support th

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A cross section of the research participants and officials from WHO and the Ministry of Health and Sanitation

WHO supports operational research capacity to boost prevention of antimicrobial resistance in Sierra Leone

Twelve national research participants completed the third module of the Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative (SORT IT) to help in combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Sierra Leone. The participants consisting of medical doctors, nurses and other public health professionals representing all sectors across the One Health platform were selected from the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Food Security (MAFFS), Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF). SORT IT is a global partnership coordinated by TDR, a Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases or TDR, Co-sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, the World Bank and WHO.
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Polio vaccination

Malawi declares polio outbreak

Brazzaville/Lilongwe – The health authorities in Malawi have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after a case was detected in a young child in the ca

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WHO Representative to Uganda, Dr Yonas (blue tie) and the Danish Ambasador to Uganda H.E Nicolaj Petersen (black mask) hand the cylinders over to the Minister of Health Dr Jane Ruth Aceng ©WHOUganda

Uganda receives 1,000 oxygen cylinders to boost the country’s response to COVID-19

Kampala, 15 February 2021 - The Ministry of Health has received a complete set of one thousand oxygen cylinders worth US$ 233,000 procured by the World Health Organization (WHO)

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AWUOR, Ochieng at the training

WHO Ethiopia and UNFPA Ethiopia launch training on clinical management of rape for first-line service providers

WHO, in collaboration with UNFPA, Ministry of Health, and Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), has launched training on the clinical management of rape for health care professionals. The training series includes two 5-day training that took place the weeks of 31 January and 7 February 2022 in Addis Ababa aiming to improve the technical capacity of healthcare professionals to provide comprehensive clinical management to survivors of sexual violence and intimate partner violence. A total of 50 healthcare professionals from Addis Ababa, Afar, Amhara, and Oromia regional health bureaus, hospitals, universities, NGOs, and UN agencies were trained at the end of the series. These are health coordinators, medical doctors, clinical officers, midwives, and nurses working in emergencies.
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