Countries from IGAD team up to end polio: Plan to vaccinate about six million under five children

Four countries from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) signed a communique on polio eradication in Garissa, Kenya on 14th September 2018. The communique underscored the need to combine and strengthen the effort of Horn of Africa countries currently responding to an outbreak of poliovirus detected in environmental surveillance and human case samples from Somalia […]

Uganda Prepares to Vaccinate against Ebola in Case the Virus Strikes the Country

As Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) preparedness activities intensify in Uganda, the Ministry of Health with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) is making arrangements to vaccinate frontline health workers and high-risk populations should need arise. In case Uganda gets a case of EVD, a strategy known as ring vaccination will be implemented. Under this […]

WHO is scaling up response to a fast-moving cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe’s capital

The World Health Organization (WHO) is scaling up its response to an outbreak of cholera in Zimbabwe, which is expanding quickly in Harare, the country’s capital with a population of more than two million people. Cholera is an acute waterborne diarrhoeal disease that is preventable if people have access to safe water and sanitation and […]