Cairo, Egypt, 28 September 2021 – The German Ambassador Frank Hartmann handed over a donation of 7 million masks to WHO, which were received by the WHO Representative to Egypt Dr Naeema Al Gasseer at the premises of the German Embassy in Egypt. The masks were donated by the German Federal Ministry of Health from its own stocks and will be...

In light of recent comments on social media, the World Health Organization (WHO) clarifies that it does not engage with tobacco companies and does not support visits to tobacco company facilities in any way. WHO’s Constitution, rules, and regulations, including its Framework of engagement with non-State actors, prohibit engagement in activities...

Dr Jean Jabbour, WHO Representative in Egypt, and Mr Masaki Noke, Ambassador of Japan to EgyptThe World Heath Organization welcomes a new contribution from the Government of Japanto support the scaling up of Egypt’s disease surveillance system, ensuring an effective and rapid response to epidemic-prone diseases across the country. Within Egypt’s...

25 April 2019 – On 4 April 2019 the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population held a seminar on health and health-related risk communication and introduced the Ministry’s newly-established risk communication unit. Establishment of the unit was approved by Her Excellency the Minister of Health and Population Dr Hala Zayed in March 2019 in...

UNHCR/Scott Nielson 10 April 2019 – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and WHO, the World Health Organization, commend Egypt’s extension of the “100 Million Seha” campaign to include refugees and asylum-seekers in Egypt in the new phase. The “100 Million Seha” campaign, which kicked off at a national scale in October 2018 under the auspices of...

12 March 2018 | Cairo | Geneva -- Egypt becomes the first country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the latest in the world to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF) as a public health problem. Egypt’s success comes after almost two decades of implementing sustained control and prevention measures...