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WHO Launches Business Case for Immunization in Africa at the World Health Assembly

WHO Launches Business Case for Immunization in Africa at the World Health Assembly

More than 30 million children under 5 fall ill and half a million die from vaccine-preventable diseases. WHO’s business case for immunization demonstrates how achieving universal immunization coverage could save 1.9 million lives and generate $US 13 billion in economic benefits each year.
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WHO 1 billion more people with health coverage, 1 billion more people made safer, 1 billion lives improved

World Health Assembly delegates agree new five-year strategic plan

World Health Assembly delegates today agreed an ambitious new strategic plan for the next five years. The Organization’s 13th General Programme of Work (GPW) is designed to help the world achieve the Sustainable Development Goals – with a particular focus on SDG3: ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing for all at all ages by 2030.
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A. Tardy | Delegates participating in discussions at Committee A.

Seventy-First World Health Assembly update, 23 May

Ebola outbreak

Delegates to the World Health Assembly heard today that the next few weeks would tell whether the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Nigeria’s struggle with ending TB stigma

Nigeria’s struggle with ending TB stigma

Abuja, 22 May 2018 – In March 2017, Sunny who works as a fashion designer in Abuja, Nigeria’s Capital, started coughing, experiencing chest pains, toe pain, and

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Some of the vehicles towed to the Parliament to show the gravity of road accidents

Uganda launches Legislative Action Plan on Road Safety

The Speaker of Uganda’s Parliament the Right Honorable Rebecca Kadaga launched the country’s Road Safety Legislative Action Plan which is arguably the first of its kind in Afric

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Mrs. Mama Koffa, Acting Deputy Director JFK Medical Center, receives donation of cleaning materials from WHO team

World Health Organization supports the “Make John Fitzgerald Kennedy a Hospital of Choice, Not Desperation” Cleaning up campaign to improve public confidence and patient safety

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Healthcare workers at Chief Jallah Lone Medical Center celebrating WHHD, Gbarpolu County, Liberia

18 Hospitals in Liberia take the lead to prevent sepsis in healthcare

A Professional Nurse at the JFK Medical Center demonstrating proper hand hygiene during the WHHD in Monrovia

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Group photograph WHO WR, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, Dr Sule Ahmed Medical Director of the Maitama General Hospital

Maitama Hospital Measles and Yellow Fever Laboratory gets a boost from WHO

Abuja, 17 May 2018 – In a bid to strengthen measles and yellow fever surveillance in Nigeria, the World Health Organization (WHO) has refurbished a porta cabin

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