“Scoping Mission” on Sustainable Development Goals presents initial report to Minister of Health.

R-L Dr Dovlo, Dr Alemu, Professor Adewole and Directors of Federal Ministry of Health listeninf to presentation by 'Scoping Mission'.

Abuja, 07 August 2017-The World Health Organization’s (WHO) first “Scoping Mission” to Nigeria on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) & Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has concluded its assignment and presented findings to the Honorable Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole in Abuja on 04 August 2017. During the 5-day mission, experts, government functionaries and stakeholders   explored areas for health system improvement to enable Nigeria expedite progress towards the attainment of UHC and the SDGs.

Gambia commemorates World Hepatitis Day 2017

Commemoration of World Hepatitis Day
On 28 July 2017, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), Medical Research Council (MRC) and other partners commemorated World Hepatitis Day under the theme: “Eliminate Hepatitis". To mark this important event a press briefing was organized for both the print and electronic media to raise awareness on this important but growing public health problem in the Gambia.

Zambia commences the second phase of the Joint External Evaluation of the core capacities for implementation of the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005)

Assistant Director, environmental health at MOH, Mr. Mulonda Mate and Dr. Peter Songolo, Disease Prevention and Control Officer, WHO welcoming the participants.

Livingstone, 8 August 2017 - Experts from the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Africa, Organization for Animal Health, JICA, PH Sweden and WHO Country Office in Ghana, Ministry of Health inTanzania, Ministry of Agriculture in Kenya and NICDC in Nigeria are gathered in Livingstone to support the second phase of the Joint External Evaluation (JEE) of the implementation of the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) in Zambia.

WHO donates vehicles, boats and computers to the ministry of health to strengthen national capacities to detect, report and respond to public health emergencies

WHO staff in action at the hand over ceremony
The WHO Country Office yesterday made a donation of vehicles, boats and computers valued at six million Zambia Kwacha to the Ministry of health as part of its continued support for strengthening national capacities to detect, report and respond to public health emergencies. The acting WHO Representative, Dr. Custodia Mandlhate handed over to the Health Minister, Honourable Chitalu Chilufya thirteen (13) 4x4 Land cruisers (hard top), 2 Land cruiser Prado, two banana boats and 15 Dell Laptops which will be utilized in the health emergencies program in the country’s ten (10) provinces and ports of entry. This donation has been made possible through the WHO Emergency Preparedness, Integrated Disease Surveillance and Outbreak response project which is funded by the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) for the period September 2016 to August 2021. Dr. Mandlhate also handed over to the minister a total of 5 Land cruisers (hard top), 10 Dell desk top computers, 10 Samsung Galaxy tablets and I scanjet through the WHO Influenza Preparedness (PIP) Framework. The Influenza programme is operating in 9 sentinel sites in Lusaka, Monze, Nakonde, Ndola and Samfya districts. The 5 vehicles donated will go to the Virology laboratory at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka and the influenza preparedness sentinel sites in Monze, Nakonde and Samfya.

National Health Financing Conference

A three day National Health Financing conference convened by the Ministry of Health with support from the World Bank, WHO and USAID gets underway in Monrovia on Tuesday August 8.

Countries Agree To Work towards Strengthening their Public Health Emergency Operations Centre

The Chief Medical Officer handing over Certificate of Participation to Dr Aschalen Workineh from the MoH Ethiopia
After five days of training and hard work, the first-ever East African Regional Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC) and Incident Management Training Workshop concludes on a positive note. The workshop participants from the seven countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda) agreed on critical next steps to strengthen their national capacities for responding to emergencies.

WHO child health programme dries tears in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Le programme RAcE cible les populations qui, dans la province de Tanganyika, vivent à plus de 5 km du centre de santé le plus proche. Les routes sont en mauvais état et la plupart des gens se déplacent soit à pied, en portant leurs enfants, soit sur des bicyclettes et des cyclomoteurs qui font office de taxis informels mais coûteux.
Les relais communautaires fournissent traitement et diagnostic pour le paludisme, la pneumonie et la diarrhée aux enfants de moins de 5 ans vivant dans la province de Tanganyika en République démocratique du Congo, une région rurale où l’accès aux soins est rendu difficile par le manque de moyens de transport.