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Dr. Yoti Zabulon

My Health, My Right!

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World Health Day 2024: Tanzania’s strive for the Health for all Agenda

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Ensuring Health Equity: Narrowing the barrier gaps in accessing health care

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Dr Yonas Tegegn Woldemariam, WHO Representative to Uganda

The right to health for all people means that everyone should have access to comprehensive health services without suffering financial hardship

Today, Uganda joins the rest of the world in commemorating World Health Day with the theme "My health, my right".

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Hon. Dr Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero, the Minister of Health in Uganda

Ensuring that all Ugandans fully enjoy their right to health requires collaborative efforts from all sectors, partners, and communities under the one health approach

World Health Day is celebrated every 7th April. This year’s theme is “My Health, My Right”.

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Namibia health care provider at an outreach point.

Strengthening capacity on implementing Primary Health Care Quality Standards

The Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) is committed to improving the quality of healthcare services across Namibia.

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Ethiopia Commemorates World Tuberculosis Day with Renewed Resolve: Ministry Applauds WHO's Contribution

Ethiopia Commemorates World Tuberculosis Day with Renewed Resolve: Ministry Applauds WHO's Contribution

Addis Ababa, March 24, 2024

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Entrenching person-centred life-stages care to advance the right to health in Sierra Leone

Entrenching person-centred life-stages care to advance the right to health in Sierra Leone

Twenty-five-year-old Yainkain Sesay is expecting her first child. Before her first antenatal visit to King Harman Maternity and Child Hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital city, she was anxious.
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