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Madagascar’s plague epidemic is slowing, but we must sustain the response

Madagascar’s unprecedented outbreak of pneumonic plague is slowing down but the response must be sustained, WHO cautioned on Monday (November 27).
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Opening remarks from the Director General, Mr Berhane Ghebretinsae

Antibiotics Awareness Week Launching ceremony

In line with the World Antibiotic Awareness Week, Eritrea launched its first antibiotics awareness week campaign this year (13th – 19th November).

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Guidance and Counselling teacher explaining elevatated vegetable garden plots

Visiting Ghana delegation impressed by a Health Promoting School!

Gaborone, BOTSWANA - 24 November 2017: A seven person delegation from Ghana is in Botswana to benchmark on Health Promotion and Health in All Policies.

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Leave no one behind - framework of actions for strengthening health systems for UHC and the SDGs in Africa

Statement on the Second Ministry of Health Directors’ meeting on Taking Forward the Regional Framework for Strengthening Health Systems for UHC and SDGs

The second meeting of Directors of Policy and Planning and of Public Health Programs from the Ministries of Health of 27 countries gathered in Kintele, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, from 22nd to 24th November 2017, to deliberate on how to take forward the Regional Actions Framework on strengthening health systems for UHC and SDGs. They worked along with the WHO technical staff from the Health Systems and Services Cluster at all the three WHO levels as well as staff from other Clusters at the Regional Office;
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A Training of the Trainers session on strengthening the health sector's response to violence against women in Uganda. Participants learn how to improve their referral plans by learning about the difficulties survivors face when being referred to various services.

Making health services a safe place for women: Uganda steps up to support women subjected to violence

In 2015, WHO worked with the Ministry of Health to update its national gender-based violence training manual. This manual is now used alongside WHO’s clinical and policy guidelines and its clinical handbook on responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence in weeklong workshops to train health care providers, community leaders and workers in the judicial system on how to deliver services to survivors of violence.
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Partial view of meeting participants

Experts ramp up efforts to leave no one behind

Brazzaville, 24 November 2017 - With growing momentum to ensure that everyone has access to good quality health, planning experts from 27 countries of the Regio

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Launching of the National Action Plan for Prevention and Containment of AMR by Cabinet Secretary Dr Cleopa Mailu. Looking on, WR Kenya Dr Rudi Eggers, PS Livestock Dept Dr Andrew Tuimur and members of the AMR team in Kenya

Call for behaviour change in antibiotic use and prescription

Kenya commemorated the World Anti-biotic Awareness Week on November 13-19 with a call for urgent action to avert antibiotic resistance which is leading to ineffective treatment of a growing number of infections.
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R to L Dr Akpaka Kalu, Representative to WHO Ethiopia in his address and Dr Mebratu Meles, State Minister to Ministry of Industry

Promoting Interagency Collaboration to Ensure Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Development in Ethiopia

A meeting on an interagency framework of collaboration for implementation of the National Strategy and Plan of Action for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Development in Ethiopia (NSPA-Pharma) was conducted in Addis Ababa from 14-15 November, 2017. The meeting was co-organized by WHO in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry and Ministry of Health and attended by various national & international organizations including UN agencies, international development partners, Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Health Ethiopia and other stakeholders working in the area.
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