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H.E President Lazarus Chakwera and WHO Rep Dr Neema Kimambo

Malawi launches a national “End Cholera” campaign

Today the Government of Malawi launched the national Tithetse kolera (End Cholera) campaign to curb the outbreak affecting the country. The campaign was launched by H.E President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera in Mgona, one of the capital’s cholera hotspots.
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WHO Representative (left) making the symbolic handing over of the consignment to the Minister of Health and Sanitation

WHO Provides medical supplies to Bo Government Regional Hospital following mass casualty incident

Bo, 13 February 2023 – The World Health Organization Country Office in Sierra Leone has swiftly responded to a call by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation to replenish medical supplies at the Bo Government Regional Hospital following an emergency response by the hospital team to a mass casualty incident that depleted the routine stockpile of medical supplies of the hospital.
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Opening ceremony of the AVoHC-SURGE training

WHO (SURGE) training for emergency responders kicks off in Tanzania

Dar es Salaam - In a bid to strengthen capacity for crisis preparedness and response in the African continent, the World Health Organization is collaborati

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Handing over equipment

WHO delivers medical supplies to support drought and food insecurity interventions in Uganda

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Equatorial Guinea confirms first-ever Marburg virus disease outbreak

Equatorial Guinea confirms first-ever Marburg virus disease outbreak

Equatorial Guinea today confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg virus disease. Preliminary tests carried out following the deaths of at least nine people in the country’s eastern Kie Ntem Province turned out positive on one of the samples for the viral haemorrhagic fever
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WHO supports new regions with vehicles and office equipment

WHO supports new regions with vehicles and office equipment

The World Health Organization (WHO) with support from the Governments of the United States and Canada has presented vehicles and office equipment worth about 2.4 million Ghana Cedis to the regional health directorates of the six newly created regions in Ghana to facilitate the delivery of quality health service in all parts of the regions. 
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New cholera cases in Africa surging fast, reach a third of 2022 total in a month

New cholera cases in Africa surging fast, reach a third of 2022 total in a month

Africa is witnessing an exponential rise in cholera cases amid a global surge. Cases recorded on the continent in the first month of 2023 alone have already risen by more than 30% of the total caseload reached in the whole of 2022.
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In Nigeria, boosting viral hepatitis awareness and treatment

Abuja, 8 February, 2023 - Four months before her wedding and on the eve of starting a new job, Dada Titilope went in for a routine medical check.

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