Zero Malaria starts with me
Namibia’s malaria cases have been increasing steadily over the past few years and this necessitated WHO support to government through the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MOHSS) to intensify malaria control interventions. WHO and MOHSS have been implementing a larviciding demonstration project for the past three years in five malarious districts selected from 5 regions namely Omusati, Oshikoto, Ohangwena, Kavango East and Kavango West.
Community health champions target over 20,000 households at risk with disease prevention messages in Yobe State
Damaturu, 26 May, 2022 - Bintu Abubakar, a 40 years old community health extension worker (CHEW), a known public health influencer in her locality lives in Potiskum local Government Area (LGA), Yobe State .
Every morning she leaves her home and goes into the community including the Internally Displaced People (IDP) camps to sensitize the residence about infectious diseases and interpersonal health risk messages.
Uganda Receives Three Generators to Power Oxygen Plants at Three Regional Referral Hospitals
The World Health Organization (WHO) has handed over three generators worth UGX 571,220,522 purchased with financial support from the Government of Denmark through Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) to the Ministry of Health to ensure steady supply of power for the oxygen plants and medical response in Gulu, Jinja, and Kabale Regional Referral Hospitals.
The generators provided are a response to the need observed in the country during the peak of COVID-19 pandemic, when the country was hit hard by the rapid rise in the number of people in need of oxygen.
Kenya launches road safety initiative to reduce crashes
Press Statement: Kenyan Government, World Health Organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies
launch new initiative to reduce road crash deaths
Road traffic crashes are a top-five cause of death for Kenyans between the ages of five and 70, and the leading killer of boys aged 15-19.
Botswana’s participation at the World Health Assembly 2022
On the occasion of the 75th session of the World Health Assembly (taking place in Geneva between 22-28 May 2022), His Excellency Dr Mokgweetsi E.K. Masisi, President of the Republic of Botswana shared Botswana’s health trajectory, particularly in the midst of country’s efforts to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
African health ministers seek ways to bolster polio outbreak response
WHO positions over 2000 health workers to tackle circulating variant poliovirus in Nigeria
Abuja, 25 May, 2022 - In response to the upsurge of the circulating variant poliovirus type 2 (cVPVD2) transmission in Nigeria, the World Health Organization (WHO) has absorbed and strengthened the capacity of 2400 Public health officers to mitigate the transmission of the virus in the country.
Sierra Leone completes strategic public health emergency readiness assessment and risks profiling
CIDRZ supports the National HIV Differentiated Service Delivery Training of Trainers under the Global Fund Differentiated Service Delivery Strategic Initiative
The Global Fund Differentiated Services Delivery (DSD) Strategic Initiatives (SI) invest in technical assistance (TA) in ten (10) priority countries until 2023, for the adoption of World Health Organization (WHO) recommended guidance, to incentivize increased program quality and efficiency along the HIV testing, treatment and advanced disease cascade, through promotion of best-practices and acceleration of country grant implementation.