Abuja, 10 June, 2022 - When a team of vaccinators arrived in Obele, a boundary town between Nigeria and Benin Republic, to vaccinate children against the circulating Vaccine Derived poliovirus (cVDPV2), the community leader, Chief Babafemi Ogunmade was not surprised. 

“We are aware that some vaccinators were coming to vaccinate our children against the polio and other diseases and we have been expecting them. 

Ondo, 9 June, 2022 - As with other emergencies, the World Health Organization (WHO) swiftly moved to support the Ondo State Government to provide technical assistance and facilitate the provision of critical medical services to victims of the Owo attack.

On 06 June 2021, Owo community was attacked as gunmen gained entrance into a church and killed more than 20 worshippers, leaving some critically wounded. 

To immediately support affected communities, WHO also donated drugs, medical equipment, and consumables to the State Government.

Dar es Salaam, 2 June 2022: Tanzania has launched a third round of intensified COVID-19 vaccination that aims to revitalize uptake of vaccines in a bid to reach 70 percent of the eligible population and attain herd immunity.

When her 11-month old son, Abdulnasir, refused to breastfeed or eat his food, Amina knew something was seriously wrong with him. He had had diarrhea, vomiting and fever for more than a week, but it was when he kept crying in pain, stopped feeding altogether and got very weak that she got alarmed and brought him to Gode Hospital in Somali Region.

“I called each of my children to make sure they take my grandchildren for polio vaccination,” this is how serious polio vaccination is to Faith Daudi Malungo, a grandmother resident of Mkoka village in Kongwa Tanzania.

7 June 2022

Abuja, 2 June, 2022 - Ernest Ajayi, a 45 years-old civil servant who resides in Abuja, recalls that he picked up smoking because he thought “smoking made people look successful, classy and respected”. 

He said growing up, many movies portrayed the rich and influential people were smokers and that enticed him to start smoking in his early twenties at the university. 

Lilongwe, 1 June 2022- The World Health Organization (WHO) Malawi Country Office has a new representative, Dr Neema Rusibamayila Kimambo. The new WHO country representative has officially assumed duties in Malawi on 1 June 2022 with the presentation of her letters of commission to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Honorable Nancy Tembo. The presentation took place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs headquarters in Lilongwe.

Lilongwe, 1 June 2022 – Ted Chaiban, the Global Lead Coordinator for COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership (CoVDP), arrived in the country today for a three-day official visit.