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Access to Affordable Vaccines for Middle Income Countries Workshop kicks off in Eswatini

01 November 2019

The Minister of Health, Honourable Lizzie Nkosi opened the second consultative workshop for improving access to affordable vaccines for Middle Income Countries (MICs) in Africa, at the Royal Swazi Convention Centre in Ezulwini on 30 October 2019. This meeting, organised by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa is attended by stakeholders involved in the procurement and use of vaccines from seven Middle Income Countries in African.

Strengthening disease surveillance and outbreak response in South Sudan to save lives

Participants of the Third Edition of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) guidelines workshop

31 October 2019

Juba, 25 October 2019: To improve reporting performance and capacity to detect outbreaks, South Sudan reviewed and adapted the Third Edition of the Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) guidelines for timely detection and prompt response to disease outbreaks and public health risks.

Japan joins Rwanda to emphasize community engagement as a pillar of Ebola Prevention

State Minister of Primary Health Care with Japanese Ambassador, WHO Representative and Mayor of Kicukiro were present

30 October 2019

The Ambassador of Japan to Rwanda, His Excellency Mr. Takayuki Miyashita, joined Rwanda to emphasize community engagement in preventing Ebola. Mr.Tukayuki along with Dr. Mwinga Kasonde, World Health Organisation Rwanda Office Representative and State Minister for Primary Health Care and Public Health Dr. Patrick Ndimubanzi conducted an Ebola Virus Disease community mobilization exercise on the September 20, 2019 in Gahanga Sector, Kicukiro District, Kigali City.

835 000 people to receive second dose of the cholera vaccine in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

30 October 2019

The second phase of an oral vaccination campaign to protect more than 835 000 people from cholera in the North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) begins today. While North Kivu has been struggling with an outbreak of Ebola virus disease for more than a year, this north-eastern province is also endemic for cholera.

WHO builds Capacity of Six African Countries to Strengthen Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent Health and Nutrition

Participants from Ministries of Health- Botswana, Eritrea, Eswatini, The Republic of South Sudan, Uganda and Zambia and the WHO

29 October 2019

Entebbe, 29th October 2019:- The Ministry of Health, with support from the World Health Organization (WHO), is conducting a five-day workshop to build the capacity of program managers and WHO country office staff to better manage and improve service delivery in the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH&N) program.

Regional research prioritization exercise on SRHR with focus on safe abortion and post-abortion care, including in humanitarian settings

29 October 2019

Universal access to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) is one of the key components of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3 and 5 and contributes to the achievement of all the other SDGs. Sadly however, in Africa the SRHR goals are those that made little progress during the MDG era where no country in the African Region achieved the target on universal access to reproductive health.

Government strives to make medication, support available for HIV-positive children

Paediatrics testing, at the Kubwa General Hospital. Credits_ FMOH_CDC

29 October 2019

Abuja, 29 October, 2019 - Five-year-old Hadiza Malami* and her siblings were born with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Hadiza’s parents, who are both HIV positive, only started receiving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment a year after Hadiza’s birth when an HIV testing and treatment centre opened in their neighbourhood.

Cabo Verde adopts WHO package of essential noncommunicable diseases interventions for primary health care

Pilot Health Center WHO PEN training session

29 October 2019

Cabo Verde is reinforcing its primary health care system implementing the World Health Organization (WHO) package of essential noncommunicable diseases interventions (WHO PEN). These package is going to help the country to improve efficiency and quality of care to control and reduce the impact of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). The WHO PEN is an innovative and action-oriented set of cost-effective interventions that can be delivered to assure an acceptable quality of care, even in resource-limited settings.

Regional partnership promoting high-impact ideas for a healthier Africa is announced

29 October 2019

The African Academy of Sciences and WHO unveil strategic partnership to strengthen technology and innovations aimed at promoting good health and well-being in Africa.

Uganda scores highly in the Measles-Rubella-Polio vaccination campaign

A happy mother and her child after vaccination

25 October 2019

Kampala, 25 October 2019-: In the recently concluded Measles-Rubella-Polio campaign conducted by Uganda’s Ministry of Health (MoH) with support from GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance and the World Health Organization (WHO), partial results reveal that 18 770 706 (105%) children have so far been vaccinated against Measles and Rubella. This is higher than the nationwide target which was 18 100 000 children. The Measles-Rubella vaccination campaign targeted children above nine months but below fifteen years.