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The facilitator making a presentation on HIV Care Cascades - how can cascade analysis lead to program improvements

With WHO’s support, South Sudan strengthens HIV treatment cascade to improve interventions and achieve the national 90-90-90 targets

Juba 14 September 2018 – WHO in partnership with the Ministry of Health are strengthening capacity to improve HIV programme interventions to achieve the nationa

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How an encounter with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo inspired change

How an encounter with Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo inspired change

Hugues Musumbu is a man with a ready smile, but a self-effacing air. Today, he visited a hospital in Lubero in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The town is in North Kivu Province where an Ebola outbreak was declared on 1 August. Hugues works for the World Health Organization (WHO) as an expert in infection and prevention control (IPC). He interviewed the health workers and quickly understood there was a problem.
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Seychelles PCV vaccine

New vaccine introduced to protect Seychellois children from Pneumonia and other Pneumococcal diseases

Seychelles 14th September 2018 – Seychellois children will now be better protected against diseases caused by Pneumococcal bacteria such as Pneumonia, Meningiti

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Theoretical session on case management of HAT

WHO steps up efforts to accelerates the elimination of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) in South Sudan

Human African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, threatens millions of people in many countries across sub-Saharan Africa. 

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breastfeeding

Empowering clinical and non-clinical maternity hospital staff to promote early initiation and exclusive breastfeeding

The Ministry of Health and Sanitation in collaboration with WHO and partners is rolling out Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative to promote breastfeeding by training both clinical

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Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar (3rd left) Chairman of Tarmuwa LGA Yobe State immunizing a child during OBR flag off.

Nigeria not lowering guards against Polio, two years after last detection of cases in the Northeast.

Abuja, 13 September, 2018 - After two years without the detection of wild poliovirus (WPV) in Nigeria, the Government, in collaboration with Global Polio Eradic

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WHO is scaling up response to a fast-moving cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe’s capital

WHO is scaling up response to a fast-moving cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe’s capital

The World Health Organization (WHO) is scaling up its response to an outbreak of cholera in Zimbabwe, which is expanding quickly in Harare, the country’s capital with a population of more than two million people.
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Governor and UN Delegates displaying the signed MOU Document

Bauchi commits to full implementation of United Nations Sustainable Development Partnership Framework.

Abuja, 13 September, 2018 - The Governor of Bauchi State, His Excellency, Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar in Abuja today pledged the timely release of counterpart f

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