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WHO handed over the Emergency Health Kit enough to benefit over 40,000 refugee and host community with different communicable diseases for three months.

WHO Commits to Improve Health Situation in Gambella, Ethiopia

Increasing reports of communicable diseases and presence of a large number of refugees from south Sudan heightened the need for strengthened public health emergency prepar

A community health worker, Frida Kabwango, diagnoses and treats 3 year old James Mabvuto for malaria at Matapila Village Clinic in Ntcheu District, Malawi. WHO / A. Gumulira

Bringing child health services closer to rural communities in Malawi

Under the Rapid Access Expansion (RAcE) programme, launched in Malawi in 2013, the Ministry of Health has been working with WHO to train community health workers to treat common

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Gambia commemorates World No Tobacco Day 2015: Combatting the illegal tobacco trade

Banjul, 03 November 2015 - The Gambia joins the international community to commemorate

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Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV & AIDS launched in the central region

Masaka, 3rd November 2015:- Uganda launched the 10th Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV &AIDS campaign in the Central region in M

CAPSCA Chief, Mr. Michiel Vreedenburg and Mrs. Auber

The World Health Organisation participates in the assistance visit for the collaborative arrangement for the prevention and management of public health events in civil aviation (CAPSCA) to the Gambia

Banjul, 3rd November 2015 - The specific objectives of the assistance visit were to provide information to stakeholders on ICAO and WHO Public Health

Samuel Eto’o training with some of the children at the Football academy in Freetown

“FIFA 11 for Health” programme launched in Sierra Leone to promote healthy lifestyles among young people

FIFA in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Football Association, United Nations agencies (WHO and UNICEF) on 1 November launched the ‘FIFA 11 for Health’ programme in Freetown

Introductory briefing of the Rotarians at WHO Ethiopia

WHO and Rotary – Exemplary Partnership to End Polio in Ethiopia

Rotarians from the USA and Canada paid a courtesy visit to WHO Ethiopia on 6 October 2015, and were warmly welcomed in a traditional coffee ceremony.

Participants of World Polio Day Commemoration

WPD 2015 Colorfully Commemorated at Addis Ababa Assembly Hall

World Polio Day (WPD) was commemorated on 24 October 2015 at Addis Ababa National Assembly Hall in the presence of the Ethiopian Government, partners: WHO, UNICEF, USAID, and Ro