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WHO Rep. voluntarily donating blood demostrates his leadersip role in health to saving lives

UN-Gambia promotes Voluntary Blood Donation in Commemoration of UN Day

 

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EWARS- improving early detection and prompt response to acute public health events

EWARS- improving early detection and prompt response to acute public health events

Maiduguri, 1 November, 2019 - Not so long ago, collecting and evaluating large amounts of data in the field on disease trends and patterns – an activity known a

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Moving from huge fears to busloads of visitors: A Guinean doctor remembers overcoming community mistrust to treat Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Moving from huge fears to busloads of visitors: A Guinean doctor remembers overcoming community mistrust to treat Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Marie Claire Lamah is a doctor from the West Africa country of Guinea, whose people experienced a serious Ebola epidemic in 2014–2016. Many doctors and epidemiologists from Guinea have offered their skills and experience, through World Health Organization (WHO) teams, to other nations battling outbreaks of contagious disease.
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Participants of the workshop

Access to Affordable Vaccines for Middle Income Countries Workshop kicks off in Eswatini

The Minister of Health, Honourable Lizzie Nkosi opened the second consultative workshop for improving access to affordable vaccines for Middle Income Countries (MICs) in Africa,

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Participants of the Third Edition of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) guidelines workshop

Strengthening disease surveillance and outbreak response in South Sudan to save lives

Juba, 25 October 2019: To improve reporting performance and capacity to detect outbreaks, South Sudan reviewed and adapted the Third Edition of the Integrated D

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State Minister of Primary Health Care with Japanese Ambassador, WHO Representative and Mayor of Kicukiro were present

Japan joins Rwanda to emphasize community engagement as a pillar of Ebola Prevention

The Ambassador of Japan to Rwanda, His Excellency Mr. Takayuki Miyashita, joined Rwanda to emphasize community engagement in preventing Ebola. Mr.Tukayuki along with Dr.

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835 000 people to receive second dose of the cholera vaccine in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

835 000 people to receive second dose of the cholera vaccine in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

The second phase of an oral vaccination campaign to protect more than 835 000 people from cholera in the North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) begins today. While North Kivu has been struggling with an outbreak of Ebola virus disease for more than a year, this north-eastern province is also endemic for cholera.
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Paediatrics testing, at the Kubwa General Hospital. Credits_ FMOH_CDC

Government strives to make medication, support available for HIV-positive children

Abuja, 29 October, 2019 - Five-year-old Hadiza Malami* and her siblings were born with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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