Eritrea celebrated World blood donor day on the 13th of June 2010 under the theme “Let’s Increase the Number of New Blood Donors” adopted from the global theme “New Blood for the World”.

Blood Donors Day was marked in Eritrea for the 6th time this year organized with the active participation of the donors clubs coordinated by the National Blood Transfusion Center (NBTC).

The World Health Organization Director for Africa, Dr. Luis Gomes Sambo said the WHO is willing and ready to work with United Nations Agencies and other health development partners to support the Government of Lesotho (GoL) in addressing the issue of Human Resource for Health (HRH) in the Mountain Kingdom.

Ethiopia joined hands with the rest of the world to commemorate the World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) colorfully with weeklong exercises that came to an end with mass demonstration that brought together a number of people from all walks of life.

The event was done to create people’s awareness and to curb the use of tobacco products in the country, which has been on the increase in the 21st century. This year WNTD was successfully hosted by DACA here in Addis Ababa. 

Brazzaville, 14 June 2010 -- WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, has called on the youth in the Region to heed the humanitarian call to donate blood in order to save lives of patients in need.

By heeding this call, he said, the youth of Africa will be bringing “new blood” to the world and contributing to ameliorating a public health problem which affects mainly children un-der five years of age and young mothers.

The focus of World Blood Donor Day 2010 is on Young Donors with the slogan “new blood for the world.”

Ethiopia joined hands with the rest of the world to commemorate the World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) colorfully with weeklong exercises that came to an end with mass demonstration that brought together a number of people from all walks of life.

The event was done to create people’s awareness and to curb the use of tobacco products in the country, which has been on the increase in the 21st century. This year WNTD was successfully hosted by DACA here in Addis Ababa.

Brazzaville, 31 May 2010 -- WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, has called on governments in the region to protect women from tobacco marketing and smoke.

31 May 2010, Geneva/Brazzaville/Cairo -- Senior officials from African ministries of health and representatives of health partners and international agencies are scheduled to meet from 3-4 June in Marrakesh, Morocco, under the umbrella of the newly-created African Flu Alliance.

Harare, 28 May 2010 -- 1 281 629 children were vaccinated by day 3 of the on-going national measles immunization and child health days. This was said by the Honorable Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Dr Henry Madzorera during a press conference he held with the WHO and UNICEF Representatives to update the public at the half way point of the campaign. 

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n a further fight against the risks of Tobacco the government made a call to all smokers to be aware of the harmful effects of Tobacco and stop smoking, to the non smokers to be careful not to fall into its dangerous traps.

This call was made during the commemoration of World No Tobacco Day held in Asmara on the 31st of May 2010 under the theme “Let us be careful not to be victims of tobacco and its producers” adopted from the global them “Gender and tobacco with an emphasis on marketing to women”.

Windhoek, 21 May 2010 -- Vaccines to protect against the Pandemic Influenza H1N1 2009 virus, were handed-over to the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) from the World Health Organization (WHO) at the Central Medical Stores today. A total of 216 000 doses were received from WHO headquarters in Geneva on Wednesday, 19 May 2010. USAID donated syringes and other essential supplies to compliment WHO’s donation. In addition, WHO is availing NAD 1,250 million to support vaccine operations.