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WHO Surveillance Officer Abdisalan Muktar Ali investigating and verifying of the Mohammed, the child that was suspected acute flaccid paralysis (AFP).

No suspected polio case is too hard-to-reach for investigation and follow up in Ethiopia

A glimpse into the work of a WHO surveillance officer in Somali region

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Botswana to be a better place to grow old

Estimated at 43 million in 2010, the population of elderly people in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to reach 67 million by 2025 and 163 million by 20

Bob Keegan Polio Eradication Heroes Fund was awarded to Mr Daniel Deng Galuak

Bob Keegan Polio Eradication Heroes Fund was awarded to Mr Daniel Deng Galuak (Field Supervisor WHO South Sudan) posthumously

Mr Daniel Deng Galuak, who worked for WHO as a field supervisor in the Polio programme, was shot dead by an unidentified attacker at a health facility in Bieh Internally Displac

A patient at Ilara-Mokin on the testing bed

Screening invention strengthens fight against cervical cancer in Ondo state.

Akure, 28 October, 2022 - When Mrs Olawale Damilola, a 40 years old lecturer, heard that the health facility in her locality was offering screening to detect ea

Contact tracers and village health teams take on Ebola in Uganda

Contact tracers and village health teams take on Ebola in Uganda

Since an Ebola outbreak was declared in Uganda on 20 September, health assistant Nyangoma Kirrungi has been on the frontline of the country’s response day in and day out, working as a contact tracer in Madudu sub-county, one of the areas affected by the outbreak.

Zimbabwe to embark on mass vaccinations against Wild Polio

Zimbabwe to embark on mass vaccinations against Wild Polio

Harare, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe today joins a synchronized multicountry polio vaccination campaign aimed at protecting children against polio.

Handover of cholera supplies

WHO donates cholera supplies to step up cholera outbreak response in Malawi

Star base oxygen plant 1,4,001- Inside the Oxygen plant at Star base thanks to the support from the Governments of Germany,USA and Canada

OXYGEN IS LIFE: LIBERIA COMMISSIONS ITS LARGEST MEDICAL OXYGEN PLANT AT THE STAR BASE FACILITY ON BUSHROD ISLAND