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Empowering students to become powerful change agents against antimicrobial resistance in Nigeria

05 July 2019

Abuja, 5 July, 2019 – With financial support of Global Affairs Canada, and in partnership with the Dr Ameyo Stella Adadevoh Health Trust (DRASA) , the World Health Organization (WHO) is empowering students to become effective agents on antimicrobial resistance and health hygiene.

Uganda Launches Scale-up Plan for Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment

Launch of Scale-up Plan for Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment

04 July 2019

Kampala, 4th July 2019: - The Minister of Health, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, launched a 100-Day Accelerated Scale-up plan for Tuberculosis Preventive Treatment (TPT) targeting over 300 000 People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLHIV) in Uganda. The government will also provide TPT to all children aged 12 months or more living with HIV as well as HIV-negative infants and children aged 5 years or below who are household contacts of patients with pulmonary Tuberculosis.

Communities and coordination are crucial in fighting Ebola

Strong involvement of communities in surveillance is crucial to preventing the local transmission of the Ebola virus

04 July 2019

Close to the border with the Ebola-hit Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), over 100 volunteer health workers are busily planning surveillance actions to detect potential Ebola cases and defend against the virus.

Public Health Emergency Operations Centres strengthened through training

Participants included 31 PHEOC trainers from 22 Member States of the WHO African Region and the WHO Mediterranean Region

04 July 2019

More than a million people to be vaccinated in phase 2 of a huge cholera vaccination campaign in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

A local official receives a dose of oral cholera vaccine in Tshilenge, July 2019

03 July 2019

Phase 2 of the biggest ever oral vaccination campaign against cholera is scheduled to take place from 3-8 July 2019 in 15 health districts in the four central provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Public Health Emergency Operations Centres strengthened through training

03 July 2019

In response to the more than 100 public health emergencies that occur in Africa each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners held a ‘train the trainers’ capacity-building workshop in Addis Ababa recently. The nine-day workshop was designed to create a regional team of experts at Public Health Emergency Operations Centres (PHEOC) who will help with the establishment of new PHEOC as well as strengthen the capacity of WHO Member States to coordinate, prepare for and appropriately respond to public health emergencies.

Ghana commemorates World Blood Donor Day; Safe blood for all.

Dr Owen Kaluwa presenting a citation to a blood donor group

02 July 2019

On 14 June 2019, Ghana joined the global community to celebrate World Blood Donor Day.

Universal Health Coverage identified as Strategic Programmatic Area of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework in Cabo Verde

WHO intervention during the UN - development partners meeting

02 July 2019

The United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) working group in Cabo Verde on the pillar Sustainable Development of Human Capital - ‘People’, coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), identified Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as a Strategic Programmatic Area until 2022.

Ethiopia sets new standards for the management of acute malnutrition

28 June 2019

Ethiopia sets new standards for the management of acute malnutrition. The new guideline was launched on June 25th, 2019 by Dr Lia Kebede, State Minister of the Federal Ministry of Health, who noted that “nutrition is now getting the attention it deserves. We launched the first ever Food and Nutrition Policy in 2018, and today we are gathered here for another very important milestone, to launch the revised guideline for management of acute malnutrition; the guideline which is expected to benefit children and mothers greatly when properly implemented”. The guideline replaces the 2007 protocol for management of acute malnutrition, and is based on the 2013 WHO global recommendation for the management of severe acute malnutrition.

WHO Alliance for the Global Elimination of Trachoma (GET2020) meets in Maputo

22ª Reunião da Aliança da OMS para a eliminação do Tracoma no Mundo até o ano 2020 (GET2020)

28 June 2019

Maputo, 27 June 2019 - More than 180 trachoma specialists from around the world, including from Mozambique, are meeting in Maputo for the 22nd Meeting of the WHO Alliance for the Global Elimination of Trachoma (GET2020) meets in Maputo