N’Djamena – Chad today kicked off an ambitious triple vaccine rollout, including the R21 malaria vaccine, marking a significant step forward in its efforts to safeguard the health and well-being of millions of children.
As millions flee war and hunger in Sudan, senior leadership from WHO’s Africa and Eastern Mediterranean Regions converged in Chad, which hosts the largest number of Sudanese refugees, to assess the urgent health needs of people impacted by this complex and deteriorating humanitarian crisis.
Leaning against the wall in a corridor at the University Hospital Centre in Abeche, a town around 900 km east of the Chadian capital N'Djamena, Dr Sassil Dare takes a few minutes to catch his breath. It is 3pm and he has already completed three surgeries.
Lying in a hospital bed, Idriss Yahya Annour, who recently fled the conflict in Sudan to neighbouring Chad, recalls how the vehicle they were escaping in came under fire in an attack that left him with a bullet wound and a fractured femur.
"Pink October" in Chad was dedicated by the national authorities to the fight against cancer. As a prelude to this important national initiative, the WHO Representative in Chad addressed the Media.
Le Représentant de l’OMS au Tchad invite les prestataires à travailler davantage sur le diagnostic précoce du VIH chez les nourrissons et l’accès à la charge virale des Personnes vivant avec le VIH sous traitement antirétroviral afin d’accélérer la marche vers la fin du VIH/sida d’ici 2030.
More than 3.3 million children have been vaccinated against polio in Chad in a just-concluded immunization drive – one of the largest of its kind in the African region this year as campaigns that were halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic resume.
Ali Ngarba says his biggest worry about COVID-19 is that there is no vaccine yet. He shares a compound with three other families in Goudji, a neighbourhood in the Chadian capital N’Djamena, and tries to keep safe: he has set up a handwashing bucket at the doorstep and ventures out only occasionally and when necessary.
La Semaine africaine de la vaccination (SAV) 2017 a été lancée aujourd’hui par des institutions du système des Nations Unies, des responsables gouvernementaux de haut niveau, des partenaires de la vaccination et des responsables communautaires, avec le soutien de l’Organisation des Premières dames d’Afrique contre le sida (OAFLA). Tout le monde est invité à protéger sa santé en se faisant vacciner.
La Maison de la Femme de N’Djamena a servi de cadre pour la cérémonie officielle de lancement du Projet FCTC 2030 de la Convention-Cadre de l’OMS pour la lutte contre le tabac couplée à la mission d’Evaluation des besoins. L’objectif de cette mission, qui se déroulera du 23 au 26 Octobre 2017, est de procéder à une série de réunions bilatérales et de visites de plaidoyer pour promouvoir la ratification du protocole de commerce illicite des produits de tabac au Tchad.
