Kenya in determined effort to keep polio virus at bay
Kenya remains determined to keep the country free of the polio virus following a finding of a circulating vaccine-derived polio virus in an environmental water sample in Nairobi last April. Earlier in the month, the Ministry of Health launched Round Two of its planned polio campaign covering 12 counties at risk and targeting 2.8 under […]
African Health Ministers commit to ending cholera outbreaks by 2030
African Health Ministers have pledged to implement key strategies for ending cholera outbreaks in the African region by 2030. Forty-seven African countries adopted the Regional Framework for the Implementation of the Global Strategy for Cholera Prevention and Control today (28 August) at the 68th session of the World Health Organization’s Regional Committee for Africa, which […]
Attending ICAN: Dr Alex Aiken
A huge thank you to Dr Alex Aiken for his report on his recent trip to attend ICAN in South Africa and his visit to Tanzania for the CLEAN Study… Read about it here!
WHO convenes a meeting for pilot testing of the 3rd edition of the Technical Guidelines for Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR)
Zambia is one of the three countries that have been selected for piloting the 3rd edition of the Technical Guidelines for Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) for the WHO African Region. In order to conduct the pilot testing exercise, the WHO Regional Office for Africa has convened a five days meeting in Livingstone City […]