Yobe State requests WHO’s expertise over fresh cholera outbreak

Environmental health officers Engagaed by WHO for AWD ACS in Damaturu

Damaturu, 27 September 2018 - The Yobe state Government has called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to deploy its human resources and technical expertise to contain the ongoing outbreak of cholera in the state. The request was contained in a Press statement in Damaturu, the state capital by the Commissioner for Health, Dr Muhammad Bello Kawuwa. 

WHO scales up new front against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, near the border with Uganda

WHO scales up new front against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, near the border with Uganda

BENI, Nord Kivu Province, 25 September 2018 (WHO) – The World Health Organization (WHO) is working in close coordination with the Ministry of Health and with the support of other partners to step up its emergency response in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the dispatch of an advance multidisciplinary intervention team from the Beni base to address the current needs in Ituri, North-East Province, where a new confirmed case of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) has been reported in the Tchomia region, located 50 km from Bunia, the provincial headquarters.

Countries from IGAD team up to end polio: The three Ministers of Health jointly launch to vaccinate about six million under five children.

Joint Polio campaign Launch at Garisa, Kenya on Sept 14 2018
Addis Ababa, 19, September 2018: Four countries from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) signed a communique on polio eradication in Garissa, Kenya on 14th September 2018. The communique underscored the need to combine and strengthen the effort of Horn of Africa countries currently responding to an outbreak of poliovirus detected in environmental surveillance and human case samples from Somalia and Kenya. The polio outbreak has been classified as a Grade 2 Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The detection of poliovirus in these two IGAD countries leaves the remaining five IGAD member states (Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda and Djibouti) at high risk for similar outbreaks due to population movement.

Workshop on Joint External Evaluation (JEE) of International Health Regulation (IHR) Core Capacities in Mauritius from 18-20th September 2018

Dr L. Musango stating:‘external evaluations should be regarded as an integral part of a continuous process of strengthening capacities for the implementation of the IHR.'
A validation workshop is being conducted in Mauritius from 18 to 20 September 2018 in view of critically assess the levels of the country’s core capacities in detecting hazards from all sources and effectively respond to them without disruption of travel and trade.  The workshop, a preparatory step for the final visit by the external team of expert of the workshop, aims at validating the self-assessment report and identifying and compiling all reference documents that will be eventually required by the external team of expert during the final visit.