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Abuja, 26 April, 2022 - Cuddling his 14-week-old daughter, who had received the scheduled childhood vaccines, Mr Aliyu Fawaz Bello, an architect and father of four residing in Abuja, said he always ensures that his…

WHO Regional Director for African Pickle Receives an Honorary Fellowship Award from the Faculties of Medicines of South Africa

WHO Regional Director for African Pickle Receives an Honorary Fellowship Award from the Faculties of Medicines of South Africa

On Thursday, 20 April 2022, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Africa was admitted to the Honorary Fellowship of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA). The formal ceremony that…

2d Round Polio Vaccination Begins in Malawi

25 April 2022 Lilongwe – Malawi launches the second of four rounds of vaccination campaigns against wild poliovirus type 1 today. More than eleven (11) million doses will be administered to more than 2.9 million children…

Innovation at work: reflections from Malawi on the field’s first malaria vaccine, RTS,S, in childhood vaccination

Innovation at work: reflections from Malawi on the field’s first malaria vaccine, RTS,S, in childhood vaccination

RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) is the first vaccine recommended by WHO for use against a human parasitic disease of any kind. If introduced widely, it could save tens of thousands of lives each year. The Government of Malawi was…

Democratic Republic of Congo publicizes fresh Ebola outbreak in Mbandaka

Democratic Republic of Congo publicizes fresh Ebola outbreak in Mbandaka

Brazzaville/Kinshasa, 23 April 2022 – The health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo today declared an outbreak of Ebola after a case was confirmed in Mbandaka, a city in the north-western Equateur Province. This…

WHO  conducts coaching on the combination of oral cholera vaccine in emergency and preventive conditions 

WHO  conducts coaching on the combination of oral cholera vaccine in emergency and preventive conditions 

Abuja, 22 April, 2022 - The World Health Organization will be conducting a hybrid training in Abuja on 25 to 29 April, 2022 for health professionals emphasizing the importance of integrating the oral cholera vaccine…

Angola bolsters fight against COVID-19 misinformation

Angola bolsters fight against COVID-19 misinformation

Luanda – Joana Domingos had long ceased to believe the official COVID-19 information coming from national authorities in her native Angola. The mother of two had become convinced that the COVID-19 vaccine was part of…

South Sudan recommits to bettering efforts to abet climate commerce-caused effectively being threats including flooding

South Sudan recommits to bettering efforts to abet climate commerce-caused effectively being threats including flooding

World Health Day is observed annually on 7 April, to commemorate the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization (WHO). This year’s event is marked under the theme “Our Planet, Our Health,” and…

Ethiopia conducts a measles vaccination campaign to answer a plague in three regions

Ethiopia conducts a measles vaccination campaign to answer a plague in three regions

A measles vaccination campaign was conducted in Ethiopia from February to March 2022 in SNNP, Somali and Oromia regions targeting more than half a million children aged between 6 months to 10 years. The campaign…

How dwelling-based mostly care eased Rwanda’s COVID-19 response

How dwelling-based mostly care eased Rwanda’s COVID-19 response

Kigali – When COVID-19 cases and deaths in Rwanda began to spike in early 2022, the health authorities were determined to avoid reliving the experience of prior pandemic waves. Despite the country’s well-coordinated response, hospitals…

Ministry of Well being and Partners plant over 100 trees as allotment of World Well being Day commemoration in Uganda

Kampala, 19th April 2022: - The Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Tree Adoption Uganda (TAU), joined hands to commemorate World Health Day in a tree-planting exercise, in line with the day’s…

Ministry of Health and Partners Step-up COVID-19 vaccination in Uganda through Accelerated Mass Vaccination Campaigns

Ministry of Health and Partners Step-up COVID-19 vaccination in Uganda through Accelerated Mass Vaccination Campaigns

Loyce Twikirize is 18 years old and lives in Kabale district with her parents and siblings. She received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on January 10, 2022, and the second dose on March…