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24 April 2018 | Immunization

Immunization partners launch week-long campaign across Africa

The World Health Organization in the African Region, in collaboration with UNICEF, African Union and other partners, today launched the eighth African Vaccination Week (AVW). The week-long campaign from 23 to 29 April 2018 under the theme: ’Vaccines work, Do your part!,’ will raise awareness of the need and right of everyone, particularly children and women, to be protected from diseases that can be prevented by vaccines. It will also draw attention to the progress that has been made to ensure access to basic life-saving vaccinations across the continent.

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24 April 2018

Courtesy call on the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health

Dr Moeti and her team paid a courtesy call on the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health at the Parliament House.  She applauded the Legislature for passing the LI for Mental Health Bill (MHB) and also the increase in districts offering mental health services.  Dr Moeti mentioned that inadequate funding to support mental health programmes was a challenge in most African Countries, including Ghana.  She however advocated for more resources for Mental Health Programmes in Ghana, since according to her was a health priority which was seriously underfunded.

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23 April 2018

Courtesy call on Her Excellency the First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo

Dr Moeti also paid a courtesy call on Her Excellency the First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo.  She commended the First Lady’s efforts in maternal and child health in Ghana, particularly among others her support for the construction of a Mother-Baby Unit for the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital to ease the congestion at the maternity unit and improve outcomes for mothers and newborns. 

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18 April 2018 | Emergencies

Getting ready for Africa’s next major health emergency

It was August 2014 and Lieutenant (Dr) Boie Jalloh was in the second week of his medical internship at the 34th Military Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The capital city had just recorded its first cases of Ebola and despite his inexperience, the 30-year old doctor was instructed to work in the hospital’s makeshift Ebola treatment unit.

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