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R-L Dr Dovlo, Dr Alemu, Professor Adewole and Directors of Federal Ministry of Health listeninf to presentation by 'Scoping Mission'.

“Scoping Mission” on Sustainable Development Goals presents initial report to Minister of Health.

Abuja, 07 August 2017-The World Health Organization’s (WHO) first “Scoping Mission” to Nigeria on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) &am

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National Health Financing Conference

A three day National Health Financing conference convened by the Ministry of Health with support from the World Bank, WHO and USAID gets underway in Monrovia on Tuesday August 8.
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Assistant Director, environmental health at MOH, Mr. Mulonda Mate and Dr. Peter Songolo, Disease Prevention and Control Officer, WHO welcoming the participants.

Zambia commences the second phase of the Joint External Evaluation of the core capacities for implementation of the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005)

Livingstone, 8 August 2017 - Experts from the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Africa, Organization for Animal Health, JICA, PH Sweden and WHO Coun

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Commemoration of World Hepatitis Day

Gambia commemorates World Hepatitis Day 2017

On 28 July 2017, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), Medical Research Council (MRC) and other partners commemorated World Hepatitis Day under the theme: “Eliminate Hepatitis". To mark this important event a press briefing was organized for both the print and electronic media to raise awareness on this important but growing public health problem in the Gambia.
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WHO and partners take on malaria: the top killer in north-eastern Nigeria

WHO estimates up to 10 000 lives could be saved by November through malaria prevention and control, if more funds are secured
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Certificate of accreditation for College of Health Technology, Ningi in Bauchi state

Nigeria Closes Gaps in Human Resource for Health as Another Institution Gets Full Accreditation

Community Health Practitioners Board of Nigeria has awarded full accreditation status to the School of Community Health, College of Health Technology Ningi, Bauchi state in northeastern Nigeria.
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Dr Dovlo (standing) presenting preliminary findings of “Scoping” mission to Nigeria

Primary Health Care Revitalization- Nigeria’s Solution to Achieving Universal Health Coverage.

Abuja, 04 August 2017-With the Primary Health Care (PHC) revitalization programme of the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) Nigeria has the potential to achieve

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The Chief Medical Officer handing over Certificate of Participation to Dr Aschalen Workineh from the MoH Ethiopia

Countries Agree To Work towards Strengthening their Public Health Emergency Operations Centre

After five days of training and hard work, the first-ever East African Regional Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC) and Incident Management Training Workshop concludes on a positive note. The workshop participants from the seven countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda) agreed on critical next steps to strengthen their national capacities for responding to emergencies.
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