WHO Ethiopia hosts the polio outbreak response assessment team

WHO Ethiopia hosts the Polio Outbreak Response assessment team

ADDIS ABABA, 17 July 2023 | The polio outbreak response assessment (OBRA) in Ethiopia started with a briefing and orientation meeting on 17 July 2023 where the representatives from MoH, WHO Ethiopia, UNICEF Ethiopia, EPHI and partners were in attendance, and it will continue until 28 July 2023.

Building a Healthier Future: Revitalizing the Primary Health Care Approach in Angola

Dr. Humphrey Karamagi, WHO Angola WR.a.i

For the last seven decades, the World Health Organization (WHO), the global authority on health, has served as the nexus connecting nations, partners, and people to promote health, ensure global safety, and aid the vulnerable. Our unwavering mandate is to help everyone, everywhere, achieve the highest standard of health and well-being.

WHO supports Rodrigues outer island to conduct risk profiling workshop using the Strategic Toolkit for Assessing Risks (STAR)

The Rodrigues Health Commission, Mauritius Ministry of Health and Wellness (MoHW), with support from WHO, conducted a sub-national (Rodrigues) public health risk profiling exercise from 29 May to 02 June 2023 to better understand risks and prepare for future public health emergencies in the Island of Rodrigues. The exercise is subsequent to similar risk profiling assessment at national level performed in February 2023 in Port Louis where it was recognized that Rodrigues island comes with its own, distinct vulnerabilities and unique topography, urging for a specific sub-national public health risk assessment and mapping. The meeting, attended by 28 multisectoral experts, used the Strategic Toolkit for Assessing Risk (STAR) to identify and prioritize the Island 's public health risks. The STAR toolkit is guided by the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction commitments. It was used to assess potential public health risks for all existing identified  hazards in Rodrigues.

National Medicines Policy Reviewed and Validated

National Medicines Policy Reviewed and Validated

The Ministry of Health, with support from WHO convened the health cooperating partners and key sectors including law enforcement and academia for a five-day meeting in Kabwe to review and validate the new medicines policy in a bid to enhance the pharmaceutical system in the country. 

Multi-hazard Emergency, Preparedness and Response Plan disseminated in districts

Multi-hazard Emergency, Preparedness and Response Plan disseminated in districts

In the wake of several public health events that have unfolded in the recent past and, following the key findings of the WHO coordinated Joint External Evaluation (JEE) of 2017, the Zambia National Public Health Institute (ZNPHI) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and WHO conducted a dissemination meeting of the Zambia Multi-hazard Emergency, Preparedness and Response Plan. 

Angola drives innovation in communicating tobacco control.

Comic strip magazine on smoking

Luanda, Angola, July 12, 2023 - The smoking epidemic is one of the greatest public health threats the world has ever faced. Tobacco kills an estimated 8 million people yearly, with 1.2 million of those deaths being non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke.