The UN Solidarity Flight lands at the Maya Maya International Airport in Brazzaville with COVID-19 medical supplies - including protective personal equipment, thermometers and respirators - transported by the UN Solidarity Flight on April 18 2020.
Ebola awarenesses programs seen in Kabasha, Beni Territory, 2 suspected Ebola cases were reported in the town the day before.
North Kivu is the epicentre of Congo's 10th Ebola epidemic, an outbreak declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
In June 2020, a significant milestone is expected for polio eradication and global health: the certification of the WHO African Region as wild polio-free. The end of wild polio across the entire Region represents a major steppingstone toward global polio eradication; with this certification, five of the six WHO regions will be wild polio-free.
In February 2020, Nigeria, the last polio-endemic country in Africa, conducted vaccination campaigns.
This photo story documents the following activities:
Innovation: new technologies such as GIS, phone applications, solar power for vaccine cold chain transport.
Human effort: people travelling great distances through difficult/insecure terrain to provide vaccines to children.
Polio heroes: people who have made great sacrifices of lost their lives delivering vaccines as well as survivors who have achieved much despite their disabilities.
More information about WHO Response (Polio)
Isidore Mumbere (12) and Kaninga Muhenenge (70-on left), survivors of Ebola are seen here at an Ebola treatment centre in Butembo, holding certificates that declare them free of the virus.
North Kivu is the epicentre of Congo's 10th Ebola epidemic, an outbreak declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
In June 2020, a significant milestone is expected for polio eradication and global health: the certification of the WHO African Region as wild polio-free. The end of wild polio across the entire Region represents a major steppingstone toward global polio eradication; with this certification, five of the six WHO regions will be wild polio-free.
In February 2020, Nigeria, the last polio-endemic country in Africa, conducted vaccination campaigns.
This photo story documents the following activities:
Innovation: new technologies such as GIS, phone applications, solar power for vaccine cold chain transport.
Human effort: people travelling great distances through difficult/insecure terrain to provide vaccines to children.
Polio heroes: people who have made great sacrifices of lost their lives delivering vaccines as well as survivors who have achieved much despite their disabilities.
More information about WHO Response (Polio)
Hygiene procedures and protocols are demonstrated at Kitatumba Hospital, Butembo. This hospital is receiving support from the WHO.
North Kivu is the epicentre of Congo's 10th Ebola epidemic, an outbreak declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
World Health Organization staff travel by motorcycle to Makangalo, Ituri Province.
This outbreak of Ebola has been rife with logistical challenges of delivering health care and monitoring for new cases in some of the most remote regions of the country.
North Kivu and Ituri Provinces are the epicenter of Congo's 10th Ebola epidemic, an outbreak declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
Phillipe Mbusa wears PPE at Kitatumba Hospital, Butembo. This hospital is receiving support from the WHO.
North Kivu is the epicentre of Congo's 10th Ebola epidemic, an outbreak declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
Decontamination of a clinic where suspected Ebola patients had visited, Kabasha, Beni Territory, 2 suspected Ebola cases were reported in the town the day before.
North Kivu is the epicentre of Congo's 10th Ebola epidemic, an outbreak declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
In June 2020, a significant milestone is expected for polio eradication and global health: the certification of the WHO African Region as wild polio-free. The end of wild polio across the entire Region represents a major steppingstone toward global polio eradication; with this certification, five of the six WHO regions will be wild polio-free.
In February 2020, Nigeria, the last polio-endemic country in Africa, conducted vaccination campaigns.
This photo story documents the following activities:
Innovation: new technologies such as GIS, phone applications, solar power for vaccine cold chain transport.
Human effort: people travelling great distances through difficult/insecure terrain to provide vaccines to children.
Polio heroes: people who have made great sacrifices of lost their lives delivering vaccines as well as survivors who have achieved much despite their disabilities.
More information about WHO Response (Polio)
Nursing school attached to Kitatumba Hospital, Butembo.
North Kivu is the epicentre of Congo's 10th Ebola epidemic, an outbreak declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
In June 2020, a significant milestone is expected for polio eradication and global health: the certification of the WHO African Region as wild polio-free. The end of wild polio across the entire Region represents a major steppingstone toward global polio eradication; with this certification, five of the six WHO regions will be wild polio-free.
In February 2020, Nigeria, the last polio-endemic country in Africa, conducted vaccination campaigns.
This photo story documents the following activities:
Innovation: new technologies such as GIS, phone applications, solar power for vaccine cold chain transport.
Human effort: people travelling great distances through difficult/insecure terrain to provide vaccines to children.
Polio heroes: people who have made great sacrifices of lost their lives delivering vaccines as well as survivors who have achieved much despite their disabilities.
More information about WHO Response (Polio)
Health workers in protective gear at an Ebola treatment centre in Butembo.
North Kivu is the epicentre of Congo's 10th Ebola epidemic, an outbreak declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
Elese Masika conducts health checks and investigates any potential contacts with those infected with Ebola.
North Kivu is the epicentre of Congo's 10th Ebola epidemic, an outbreak declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
Nurse Nzima Bora draws a blood sample from visitors to Kitatumba Hospital, Butembo. This hospital is receiving support from the WHO.
North Kivu is the epicentre of Congo's 10th Ebola epidemic, an outbreak declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organisation.
Workers offload boxes of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines as the country receives its first batch of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines under COVAX scheme, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast February 26, 2021.
504 thousand doses of the Astrazeneca / Oxford vaccine were received in Abidjan. Vaccination against COVID-19 begins March 1 in Côte d'Ivoire
Nursing school attached to Kitatumba Hospital, Butembo.
North Kivu is the epicentre of Congo's 10th Ebola epidemic, an outbreak declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
North Kivu is the epicentre of Congo's 10th Ebola epidemic, an outbreak declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
Reaching out to all communities is vital for Ebola prevention: WHO community engagement teams are working alongside the DRC Ministry of Health to ensure the Batwa people are vaccinated against Ebola.
The Ministry of Health and World Health Organization in collaboration with the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) implemented the Oral Cholera Vaccine campaign in the area around Kasinthula area in Chikwawa district.
Chikwawa District conducted the second dose OCV campaign from September 7-9, 2015.
The World Health Organization continues to lead the monitoring, evaluation and documentation of best practices in the introduction of the oral vaccine against cholera in Chikwawa.
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The first fase of Angola´s roll out of COVID-19 vaccines.
The Angolan Ministry of Health announced the milestone of more than 1 million doses of vaccines administered to the population, after receiving 624 000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine on 2 March this year from the Serum Institute of India, as part of the COVAX initiative, and subsequently, in April 2021, an additional 495 000 doses.
Read more here.
Nursing school attached to Kitatumba Hospital, Butembo.
North Kivu is the epicentre of Congo's 10th Ebola epidemic, an outbreak declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
In June 2020, a significant milestone is expected for polio eradication and global health: the certification of the WHO African Region as wild polio-free. The end of wild polio across the entire Region represents a major steppingstone toward global polio eradication; with this certification, five of the six WHO regions will be wild polio-free.
In February 2020, Nigeria, the last polio-endemic country in Africa, conducted vaccination campaigns.
This photo story documents the following activities:
Innovation: new technologies such as GIS, phone applications, solar power for vaccine cold chain transport.
Human effort: people travelling great distances through difficult/insecure terrain to provide vaccines to children.
Polio heroes: people who have made great sacrifices of lost their lives delivering vaccines as well as survivors who have achieved much despite their disabilities.
More information about WHO Response (Polio)
Nampula city is endemic for cholera, and every year reports the highest number of cholera cases in the Mozambique. With the view to reduce the occurrence of cholera cases in the forthcoming rainy seasons, the Ministry of Health (MOH) requested to the International Coordinating Group (ICG) to provide 425,486 doses of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) in order to target 194,000 individuals living in 5 neighborhoods of Nampula especially at risk for cholera.
In June 2020, a significant milestone is expected for polio eradication and global health: the certification of the WHO African Region as wild polio-free. The end of wild polio across the entire Region represents a major steppingstone toward global polio eradication; with this certification, five of the six WHO regions will be wild polio-free.
In February 2020, Nigeria, the last polio-endemic country in Africa, conducted vaccination campaigns.
This photo story documents the following activities:
Innovation: new technologies such as GIS, phone applications, solar power for vaccine cold chain transport.
Human effort: people travelling great distances through difficult/insecure terrain to provide vaccines to children.
Polio heroes: people who have made great sacrifices of lost their lives delivering vaccines as well as survivors who have achieved much despite their disabilities.
More information about WHO Response (Polio)
A medical herbalist interacts with a client.
Grandmother Tereza and grand-daughter Bakhita, who used to be sick and malnourished are posing for a photo at the hospital in Wau, on January 31rst 2019.
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The UN Solidarity Flight lands at the Maya Maya International Airport in Brazzaville with COVID-19 medical supplies - including protective personal equipment, thermometers and respirators - transported by the UN Solidarity Flight on April 18 2020.
WHO emergency response in Malawi following floods in early 2015.
An oral cholera vaccine (OCV) campaign took place as a complementary measure to improved water, sanitation, hygiene and health promotion in areas affected by floods.
WHO emergency response in Malawi following floods in early 2015.
An oral cholera vaccine (OCV) campaign took place as a complementary measure to improved water, sanitation, hygiene and health promotion in areas affected by floods.
Traditional healer spreads barks of trees for drying.
Patience Mensah, is happy with the benefits she enjoys from the National Health Insurance Scheme.
Reaching out to all communities is vital for Ebola prevention: WHO community engagement teams are working alongside the DRC Ministry of Health to ensure the Batwa people are vaccinated against Ebola.
Workers offload boxes of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines as the country receives its first batch of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines under COVAX scheme, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast February 26, 2021.
504 thousand doses of the Astrazeneca / Oxford vaccine were received in Abidjan. Vaccination against COVID-19 begins March 1 in Côte d'Ivoire
WHO emergency response in Malawi following floods in early 2015.
An oral cholera vaccine (OCV) campaign took place as a complementary measure to improved water, sanitation, hygiene and health promotion in areas affected by floods.
Ethiopia is strengthening surveillance, diagnostics and medical care and public health information in readiness for a potential coronavirus outbreak. The country is a major African airline gateway. Its national airline operates 34 flights a week to China.
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A lab worker at Ethiopia's National Influenza and Arbovirus Laboratory on 11 February 2020.
The lab started testing for COVID-19 on 7 February 2020. "The test is not complicated. We now have the reagents and the necessary documentation. Once the samples are submitted we provide results within the same day. Currently we receive up to four samples a day for testing, but we anticipate that this will increase, says Adamu Tayachew, who heads an eight-member technician team at the National Influenza and Arbovirus Laboratory.
Ethiopia is strengthening surveillance, diagnostics and medical care and public health information in readiness for a potential coronavirus outbreak. The country is a major African airline gateway. Its national airline operates 34 flights a week to China.
Read more here.
Extracting ingredients from plants in the lab.
From the production unit, herbal remedies are bottled, packed in boxes and stored on palettes ready for distribution.
In June 2020, a significant milestone is expected for polio eradication and global health: the certification of the WHO African Region as wild polio-free. The end of wild polio across the entire Region represents a major steppingstone toward global polio eradication; with this certification, five of the six WHO regions will be wild polio-free.
In February 2020, Nigeria, the last polio-endemic country in Africa, conducted vaccination campaigns.
This photo story documents the following activities:
Innovation: new technologies such as GIS, phone applications, solar power for vaccine cold chain transport.
Human effort: people travelling great distances through difficult/insecure terrain to provide vaccines to children.
Polio heroes: people who have made great sacrifices of lost their lives delivering vaccines as well as survivors who have achieved much despite their disabilities.
More information about WHO Response (Polio)
In June 2020, a significant milestone is expected for polio eradication and global health: the certification of the WHO African Region as wild polio-free. The end of wild polio across the entire Region represents a major steppingstone toward global polio eradication; with this certification, five of the six WHO regions will be wild polio-free.
In February 2020, Nigeria, the last polio-endemic country in Africa, conducted vaccination campaigns.
This photo story documents the following activities:
Innovation: new technologies such as GIS, phone applications, solar power for vaccine cold chain transport.
Human effort: people travelling great distances through difficult/insecure terrain to provide vaccines to children.
Polio heroes: people who have made great sacrifices of lost their lives delivering vaccines as well as survivors who have achieved much despite their disabilities.
More information about WHO Response (Polio)
In June 2020, a significant milestone is expected for polio eradication and global health: the certification of the WHO African Region as wild polio-free. The end of wild polio across the entire Region represents a major steppingstone toward global polio eradication; with this certification, five of the six WHO regions will be wild polio-free.
In February 2020, Nigeria, the last polio-endemic country in Africa, conducted vaccination campaigns.
This photo story documents the following activities:
Innovation: new technologies such as GIS, phone applications, solar power for vaccine cold chain transport.
Human effort: people travelling great distances through difficult/insecure terrain to provide vaccines to children.
Polio heroes: people who have made great sacrifices of lost their lives delivering vaccines as well as survivors who have achieved much despite their disabilities.
More information about WHO Response (Polio)
In June 2020, a significant milestone is expected for polio eradication and global health: the certification of the WHO African Region as wild polio-free. The end of wild polio across the entire Region represents a major steppingstone toward global polio eradication; with this certification, five of the six WHO regions will be wild polio-free.
In February 2020, Nigeria, the last polio-endemic country in Africa, conducted vaccination campaigns.
This photo story documents the following activities:
Innovation: new technologies such as GIS, phone applications, solar power for vaccine cold chain transport.
Human effort: people travelling great distances through difficult/insecure terrain to provide vaccines to children.
Polio heroes: people who have made great sacrifices of lost their lives delivering vaccines as well as survivors who have achieved much despite their disabilities.
More information about WHO Response (Polio)
Bahati Hozanda, a contact tracer and surveillance officer in Biakato Mine.
North Kivu and Ituri Provinces are the epicenter of Congo's 10th Ebola epidemic, an outbreak declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
Kahindo Lhutongo, a suspected contact of an Ebola patient is monitored by surveillance officers of the WHO.
North Kivu and Ituri Provinces are the epicenter of Congo's 10th Ebola epidemic, an outbreak declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
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The first fase of Angola´s roll out of COVID-19 vaccines.
The Angolan Ministry of Health announced the milestone of more than 1 million doses of vaccines administered to the population, after receiving 624 000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine on 2 March this year from the Serum Institute of India, as part of the COVAX initiative, and subsequently, in April 2021, an additional 495 000 doses.
Read more here.
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The first fase of Angola´s roll out of COVID-19 vaccines.
The Angolan Ministry of Health announced the milestone of more than 1 million doses of vaccines administered to the population, after receiving 624 000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine on 2 March this year from the Serum Institute of India, as part of the COVAX initiative, and subsequently, in April 2021, an additional 495 000 doses.
Read more here.
Nurse Nzima Bora draws a blood sample from visitors to Kitatumba Hospital, Butembo. This hospital is receiving support from the WHO.
North Kivu is the epicentre of Congo's 10th Ebola epidemic, an outbreak declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
A health worker maintaining hygiene standards is seen at Kitatumba Hospital, Butembo, a heath facility currently receiving support from the WHO to prevent the spread of Ebola and establish infection prevention protocols for the future.
North Kivu is the epicentre of Congo's 10th Ebola epidemic, an outbreak declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.
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In Senegal, 9.2% of students aged 13–15 use tobacco, according to the 2020 Global Youth Tobacco Survey findings of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
Senegal is considered one of the most advanced African countries in the fight against tobacco use. A 2016 law forbids tobacco advertising and the sale of tobacco products within 200 metres of schools, stadiums, health facilities and cultural facilities.
Lamine Thiare, a well-known goalkeeper in Senegal and across West Africa, always reminds the young players he coaches about the dangers of tobacco. “If you want to have a long career in sport, do not smoke!”, he tells young players again and again. At 40, Thiare coaches teenagers at the Diambars Institute, a prestigious sport and education academy in Saly, roughly 70km south of the capital city Dakar, as well as the goalkeepers for the women's national A team. He also set up his own institution: the Nkono keepers Academy.
Lamine Thiare and members of the team walk to the field to practice.
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A five day emergency cholera vaccination campaign was launched in Pemba, Mozambique on May 16th, 2019, by the Ministry of Health in Mozambique with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other health partners.
Over 285 000 people received the oral cholera vaccine following the tragic aftermath of Cyclone Kenneth in the northern part of the country.
The campaign began in the Eduardo Mondlhane Cholera Treatment Center (CTC) and covered the areas most affected by Cyclone Kenneth - the districts of Pemba and Mecufi and the localities of Metuge-Sede and Nacuta.
Arrival of the cholera vaccines in Pemba (Mozambique) in response to the cholera outbreak that followed the impact of Cyclone Kenneth.
A five day emergency cholera vaccination campaign was launched in Pemba, Mozambique on May 16th, 2019, by the Ministry of Health in Mozambique with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other health partners.
Over 285 000 people received the oral cholera vaccine following the tragic aftermath of Cyclone Kenneth in the northern part of the country.
The campaign began in the Eduardo Mondlhane Cholera Treatment Center (CTC) and covered the areas most affected by Cyclone Kenneth - the districts of Pemba and Mecufi and the localities of Metuge-Sede and Nacuta.
Reaching out to all communities is vital for Ebola prevention: WHO community engagement teams are working alongside the DRC Ministry of Health to ensure the Batwa people are vaccinated against Ebola.
Health workers train at an isolation centre in Bole Chefe, near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 13 February 2020.
As part of Ethiopia’s COVID-19 preparedness one isolation and two treatment centres with a total bed capacity of 109 have been established.
Ethiopia is strengthening surveillance, diagnostics and medical care and public health information in readiness for a potential coronavirus outbreak. The country is a major African airline gateway. Its national airline operates 34 flights a week to China.
Reaching out to all communities is vital for Ebola prevention: WHO community engagement teams are working alongside the DRC Ministry of Health to ensure the Batwa people are vaccinated against Ebola.
Ethiopia is strengthening surveillance, diagnostics and medical care and public health information in readiness for a potential coronavirus outbreak. The country is a major African airline gateway. Its national airline operates 34 flights a week to China.
Read more here.">
A lab worker at Ethiopia's National Influenza and Arbovirus Laboratory on 11 February 2020.
The lab started testing for COVID-19 on 7 February 2020. "The test is not complicated. We now have the reagents and the necessary documentation. Once the samples are submitted we provide results within the same day. Currently we receive up to four samples a day for testing, but we anticipate that this will increase, says Adamu Tayachew, who heads an eight-member technician team at the National Influenza and Arbovirus Laboratory.
Ethiopia is strengthening surveillance, diagnostics and medical care and public health information in readiness for a potential coronavirus outbreak. The country is a major African airline gateway. Its national airline operates 34 flights a week to China.
Read more here.
Workers offload boxes of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines as the country receives its first batch of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines under COVAX scheme, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast February 26, 2021.
504 thousand doses of the Astrazeneca / Oxford vaccine were received in Abidjan. Vaccination against COVID-19 begins March 1 in Côte d'Ivoire
In Senegal, 9.2% of students aged 13–15 use tobacco, according to the 2020 Global Youth Tobacco Survey findings of the World Health Organization (WHO) and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
Senegal is considered one of the most advanced African countries in the fight against tobacco use. A 2016 law forbids tobacco advertising and the sale of tobacco products within 200 metres of schools, stadiums, health facilities and cultural facilities.
Lamine Thiare, a well-known goalkeeper in Senegal and across West Africa, always reminds the young players he coaches about the dangers of tobacco. “If you want to have a long career in sport, do not smoke!”, he tells young players again and again. At 40, Thiare coaches teenagers at the Diambars Institute, a prestigious sport and education academy in Saly, roughly 70km south of the capital city Dakar, as well as the goalkeepers for the women's national A team. He also set up his own institution: the Nkono keepers Academy.
Lamine Thiare warns about the dangers of smoking.
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