Over four million children in Zimbabwe have received a lifesaving new Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine . At the end of May, Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Health and Child Care embarked on a 10-day multi-antigen vaccination drive aimed at children aged between 9 months and 15 years.

The campaign, which has since been expanded in a bid to reach a final target of almost 6 million children, is also an opportunity for children older than 6 months to access the Inactivated Polio Vaccine and a Vitamin A supplement. Girls aged between 10 and 15 years have also received the first and second doses of the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine .

Zimbabwe has battled frequent typhoid and cholera outbreaks for more than a decade due to inconsistent supply of clean water and inadequate sanitation, and hygiene services. The increased rates of drug-resistant typhoid called for preventive measures such as the new typhoid vaccine to help the country better protect its population, particularly its children.

To ensure that as many children as possible were immediately vaccinated, the Zimbabwean government, wit h support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners, initially rolled out the campaign in schools. Over 4 million children were vaccinated against typhoid in just 10 days. The campaign is still ongoing, with an overall target of just under 6 million children.

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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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Five years ago, news that she had cervical cancer shattered Millicent Kagonga’s world. It upended her marriage, she was spurned by family and friends, and lost a child while undergoing treatment she could barely afford. Her agony seemed endless. But months of painful therapy stopped the spread of the cancer and the thirty-year-old mother of two has now taken on a fresh battle: helping patients and survivors of the disease cope better. We bring her story in her own words.

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Assessment of Cholera outbreak in Lubumbashi.

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.

Read more here.

A nurse is preparing to do for a blood transfusion at Juba Teaching Hospital, in Juba, South Sudan, on February 5th 2019.

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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A medical staff is carrying blood for a blood transfusion at Juba Teaching Hospital, in Juba, South Sudan, on February 5th 2019.

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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Moses Alfons is donating blood at the Blood Bank in Juba, South Sudan, on January 30th 2019.

A nurse is preparing a patient for a blood transfusion at Juba Teaching Hospital, in Juba, South Sudan, on February 5th 2019.

Over four million children in Zimbabwe have received a lifesaving new Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine . At the end of May, Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Health and Child Care embarked on a 10-day multi-antigen vaccination drive aimed at children aged between 9 months and 15 years.

The campaign, which has since been expanded in a bid to reach a final target of almost 6 million children, is also an opportunity for children older than 6 months to access the Inactivated Polio Vaccine and a Vitamin A supplement. Girls aged between 10 and 15 years have also received the first and second doses of the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine .

Zimbabwe has battled frequent typhoid and cholera outbreaks for more than a decade due to inconsistent supply of clean water and inadequate sanitation, and hygiene services. The increased rates of drug-resistant typhoid called for preventive measures such as the new typhoid vaccine to help the country better protect its population, particularly its children.

To ensure that as many children as possible were immediately vaccinated, the Zimbabwean government, wit h support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners, initially rolled out the campaign in schools. Over 4 million children were vaccinated against typhoid in just 10 days. The campaign is still ongoing, with an overall target of just under 6 million children.

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

Assessment of Cholera outbreak in Lubumbashi.

Over four million children in Zimbabwe have received a lifesaving new Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine . At the end of May, Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Health and Child Care embarked on a 10-day multi-antigen vaccination drive aimed at children aged between 9 months and 15 years.

The campaign, which has since been expanded in a bid to reach a final target of almost 6 million children, is also an opportunity for children older than 6 months to access the Inactivated Polio Vaccine and a Vitamin A supplement. Girls aged between 10 and 15 years have also received the first and second doses of the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine .

Zimbabwe has battled frequent typhoid and cholera outbreaks for more than a decade due to inconsistent supply of clean water and inadequate sanitation, and hygiene services. The increased rates of drug-resistant typhoid called for preventive measures such as the new typhoid vaccine to help the country better protect its population, particularly its children.

To ensure that as many children as possible were immediately vaccinated, the Zimbabwean government, wit h support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners, initially rolled out the campaign in schools. Over 4 million children were vaccinated against typhoid in just 10 days. The campaign is still ongoing, with an overall target of just under 6 million children.

Read more here.

Maternal, newborn and child health in Ethiopia

For more information:
https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/maternal-health

https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/newborn

https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/child-health

Five years ago, news that she had cervical cancer shattered Millicent Kagonga’s world. It upended her marriage, she was spurned by family and friends, and lost a child while undergoing treatment she could barely afford. Her agony seemed endless. But months of painful therapy stopped the spread of the cancer and the thirty-year-old mother of two has now taken on a fresh battle: helping patients and survivors of the disease cope better. We bring her story in her own words.

Read more here.

Maternal, newborn and child health in Ethiopia

For more information:
https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/maternal-health

https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/newborn

https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/child-health

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.

Members of the Diambars football club put on no-smoking stickers.

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

Over four million children in Zimbabwe have received a lifesaving new Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine . At the end of May, Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Health and Child Care embarked on a 10-day multi-antigen vaccination drive aimed at children aged between 9 months and 15 years.

The campaign, which has since been expanded in a bid to reach a final target of almost 6 million children, is also an opportunity for children older than 6 months to access the Inactivated Polio Vaccine and a Vitamin A supplement. Girls aged between 10 and 15 years have also received the first and second doses of the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine .

Zimbabwe has battled frequent typhoid and cholera outbreaks for more than a decade due to inconsistent supply of clean water and inadequate sanitation, and hygiene services. The increased rates of drug-resistant typhoid called for preventive measures such as the new typhoid vaccine to help the country better protect its population, particularly its children.

To ensure that as many children as possible were immediately vaccinated, the Zimbabwean government, wit h support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners, initially rolled out the campaign in schools. Over 4 million children were vaccinated against typhoid in just 10 days. The campaign is still ongoing, with an overall target of just under 6 million children.

Read more here.