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WHO in Africa offers small research grants on the innovative use of GIS towards polio eradication

WHO in Africa offers small research grants on the innovative use of GIS towards polio eradication

Brazzaville, 10 October 2019 – The Polio Eradication Programme in the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa is seeking applications for res

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Conducting motivational interview with a mentally unstable patient at Drug Ward Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital Maiduguri (FNPH)

Psychosocial Support – Borno State Government and WHO scale up efforts to fulfil unmet mental health needs

Maiduguri, 10 November, 2019 - After years of viewing gory sights of freshly injured victims from the frontlines of conflict ridden villages in North eastern Ni

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Female Surveillance team in Borno State

The challenge of gender inequality in Nigeria’s surveillance network

Maiduguri, 10 October, 2019 - Following the detection of a case of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) in Jere Local Government Area (LGA) Borno State Nigeria, a team

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Parents rush for measles vaccine after recent outbreak kills thousands of children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Parents rush for measles vaccine after recent outbreak kills thousands of children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Hypolite Mandala and his wife, Nadège, were among the first parents to arrive for the measles vaccination at Nzombi Health Centre in Masi Manimba, a village 400 km south of Kinshasa.
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School children showing their yellow fever vaccination cards after receiving the vaccine in Katsina state

Yellow Fever Preventive Mass Vaccination Campaign kicks off in Katsina State, others to follow

Katsina, 9 October 2019 - As part of an effort towards eliminating Yellow Fever epidemics in Nigeria, the Government in collaboration with the World Health Orga

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Dr Mwesha

From one Ebola front line to another in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Dr Didier Mwesha, WHO Infection Prevention and Control Expert

As Didier Mwesha passed his one-year anniversary on the front lines of the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the numbers were climbing still. As of mid-June 2019, there were some 2071 Ebola virus disease cases in the 12-month period of the tenth outbreak, with 1396 of them having passed away. And Uganda had just confirmed an outbreak at the shared border. 
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WHO staff in the community listening to local population

Angola conducts review and validation of data on Neglected Tropical Diseases

Luanda, October 9, 2019 - The Angolan Ministry of Health, with technical support from WHO, carried out a data review and validation of five key Neglected Tropic

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Mr Berhane Gebretnsae, Director General of Medical Services expressing his comments to the researchers

Eritrea: Traditional Medicine Research Dissemination Workshop

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