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Baba Safejo Amogbon with the vaccinators in front of his compound

In Nigeria, stakeholders  are not lowering their guards against all  forms of poliovirus

Lagos – 14 February 2023 - Alhaji Safejo Amogbon (fondly called Baba – Father in the Yoruba language) is an octogenarian (89 years).

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Opening ceremony of the IMCI meeting

Health experts from 17 African countries meet to take stock of health and well-being of children

Arusha - Africa must rapidly accelerate efforts to improve access to, and the quality of health services for chil

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Vaccination team taking commodities to hard to reach riverine area in Bayelsa State

Prevention is better than cure – Bayelsa state vaccinates residents against Yellow fever 

Yenagoa, 14 February, 2023 - It was between 11 am and noon on a recent Wednesday when health workers with their Geostyle boxes filled with the Yellow fever (YF)

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WHO Representative (left) making the symbolic handing over of the consignment to the Minister of Health and Sanitation

WHO Provides medical supplies to Bo Government Regional Hospital following mass casualty incident

Bo, 13 February 2023 – The World Health Organization Country Office in Sierra Leone has swiftly responded to a call by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation to replenish medical supplies at the Bo Government Regional Hospital following an emergency response by the hospital team to a mass casualty incident that depleted the routine stockpile of medical supplies of the hospital.
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Opening ceremony of the AVoHC-SURGE training

WHO (SURGE) training for emergency responders kicks off in Tanzania

Dar es Salaam - In a bid to strengthen capacity for crisis preparedness and response in the African continent, the World Health Organization is collaborati

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Handing over equipment

WHO delivers medical supplies to support drought and food insecurity interventions in Uganda

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Equatorial Guinea confirms first-ever Marburg virus disease outbreak

Equatorial Guinea confirms first-ever Marburg virus disease outbreak

Equatorial Guinea today confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease. Preliminary tests carried out following the deaths of at least nine people in the country’s eastern Kie Ntem Province turned out positive on one of the samples for the viral haemorrhagic fever
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H.E President Lazarus Chakwera and WHO Rep Dr Neema Kimambo

Malawi launches a national “End Cholera” campaign

Today the Government of Malawi launched the national Tithetse kolera (End Cholera) campaign to curb the outbreak affecting the country. The campaign was launched by H.E President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera in Mgona, one of the capital’s cholera hotspots.
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