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Africa: WHO Announces New Director of the Global Malaria Programme
WHO, 23 March 2023
WHO is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Daniel Ngamije Madandi, MD, MPH as Director of the Global Malaria Programme, effective 8 April 2023. Read more »
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Africa: The Cholera Emergency Is Avoidable
WHO, 22 March 2023
The world is facing an upsurge in cholera, even touching countries that have not had the disease in decades. Years of progress against this age-old disease have disappeared. While… Read more »
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Africa: Second High-Level Interregional Meeting On the Health of Refugees and Migrants
WHO, 18 March 2023
Amid the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes in the Syrian Arab Republic and Türkiye over a month ago, as well as the ongoing war in Ukraine now past its one-year mark, 3… Read more »
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Africa: Five Cities Recognized for Public Health Achievements At Partnership for Healthy Cities Summit
WHO, 15 March 2023
Partnership for Healthy Cities award recipients include Montevideo, Uruguay for food policy; Mexico City, Mexico for road safety; Vancouver, Canada for surveillance; Athens, Greece… Read more »
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Africa: WHO Signs Partnership Agreement With Mapaction
WHO, 16 March 2023
MapAction has signed the Standby Partnership Agreement with the World Health Organization (WHO) which will allow the UK-based emergency response and disaster preparedness charity… Read more »
WHO Announces New Director of Global Malaria Programme
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced the appointment of Daniel Ngamije Madandi as Director of the Global Malaria Programme.
Ngamije served as the Rwandan Minister of Health from February 2020 to November 2022. During this time, he led the development and execution of the Health Sector Strategic Plan as well as the development and implementation of the Covid-19 comprehensive response plan.
In other developments, the WHO said in a press release that the world is facing an upsurge in cholera, even touching countries that have not had the disease in decades. Poverty, conflict, and disasters continue to fuel cholera, now turbo-charged by climate change.
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SARS-CoV-2 continues to evolve. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has updated its tracking system and working definitions for variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Read more »
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After three years since the outbreak of Covid-19 and over almost 7 million reported deaths, World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus has expressed conf Read more »
