Joint Press Release  22 March 2023 – As needs grow and refugees continue to arrive, UN agencies and partner organizations today appealed for $116 million to provide life-saving assistance to Somali refugees seeking safety in an extremely remote area of Ethiopia’s Somali region.  Since hostilities erupted last month in the city of Laascaanood, in the

Brazzaville/Dar es Salaam – Tanzania today confirmed its first-ever cases of Marburg Virus Disease after laboratory tests were carried out following reports of cases and deaths in the country’s north-west Kagera region. Tanzania’s National Public Health Laboratory analysed samples to determine the cause of illness after eight people developed symptoms including fever, vomiting, bleeding and

To reduce the risk and mitigate the impact of future emergence of zoonotic, vector-borne and communicable diseases, South Sudan has operationalized and launched its One Health Multi Sectoral Coordination Mechanism. The first ever One Health Mechanism was launched in Juba by Honorable Dr Martin Elia Lomoro, Minister of Cabinet Affairs alongside his counterparts from the

 Sokoto, 21 March, 2023 - Mohammadu Usman a 22-year-old noma survivor has found a home at the Sokoto Noma Children’s Hospital in Sokoto State, located in the northwest region of Nigeria. Although he hails from Yobe, a state in Northeast Nigeria, he was brought in for treatment at the Noma Children’s hospital Sokoto by his

Brazzaville – Around 44% of the population in the African region suffer from oral diseases, and while the region has experienced the steepest rise globally in oral diseases over the last three decades, spending on treatment costs remains extremely low, a new report by World Health Organization (WHO) finds. Oral health remains a low priority in

Ministry of Health Lauds WHO project on primary healthcare service  World Health Organization Ethiopia Country Office (WHO-Ethiopia) through financial assistance secured from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of Canada (DFATD) handed over 1.3 million USD worth medical supplies and equipment to health bureaus of regional and city administrations in Ethiopia.  The handover

Brazzaville/Bujumbura – Health authorities in Burundi today declared an outbreak of circulating poliovirus type 2 (CVDPV 2) after confirming eight polioviruses, the first such detection in more than three decades. The cases were confirmed in a four-year-old child in Isale district in western Burundi who had not received any polio vaccination, as well as in

16 March 2023 N'djamena - Le Ministre de la Santé Publique et de la Prévention du Tchad Dr Adelmadjid Abderahim MAHAMAT, a signé le 10 Février 2023 l’arrêté ministériel N°0054/PT/PM/MSPP/SE/SG/DGSP/COUSP/23, portant la mise en place d’un Groupe d’intervention Rapide, dans le cadre du programme SURGE. Une équipe de 70 cadres pluridisciplinaires, parmi lesquels nous pouvons

16 March 2023, Addis Ababa ‒ Since the beginning of February 2023, approximately 100 000 refugees, mostly women, children, unaccompanied minors, and people who are wounded or sick have reportedly arrived in Ethiopia from Somalia and are in dire need of humanitarian assistance. World Health Organization (WHO) in Ethiopia is stepping up its health response

The Ministry of Health will vaccinate over 1.9 million children against yellow fever with support from UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Gavi Kampala. In 2022, Uganda was one of 14 countries in Africa reporting confirmed cases of yellow fever. With the support of the Eliminate Yellow fever Epidemics (EYE) Strategy and its key

Yobe, 13 March, 2023 - As displaced residents and host communities in Yobe state, begin rebuilding their lives, the World Health Organization (WHO) supports the government to re-strategize and scale up its humanitarian health interventions. The objective is to ensure community inclusivity for all the people of the state.  Yobe is one of the three

Legal advisors and judicial officers from Botswana, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Mauritius, Rwanda, Seychelles, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia attended a 3-day legal capacity building workshop in Port Louis, Mauritius from 01 to 03 March 2023 to strengthen tobacco control and reduction of NCD risk factors.  Mauritius was proposed to host the multi-country