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World Immunization Week 2022: immunization efforts need a shot in the arm say Somalia’s Government and UN
WHO supported the federal and state governments to resume routine childhood vaccinations during the COVID-19 outbreak in Somalia. Credit: WHO/Somalia 23 April 2022, Mogadishu – While marking World Immunization Week this year, Somalia’s Federal Ministry of Health and Human Services, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations...
World TB Day 2022: Getting back on track to diagnose and report TB cases, to save lives
27 March 2022 - World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, commemorated on 24 March every year, aims to increase awareness about the grave health, social and economic consequences of TB, and scale up efforts to prevent further spread of the disease. The theme for this year is to ‘Invest to End TB. Save Lives’. TB is a major cause of death and disease burden in...
Somalia and stakeholders commit to act now, to take urgent, bold steps to end the ongoing circulating poliovirus type 2 outbreak and keep the country free from wild poliovirus
NAIROBI, 22 March 2022 – Yesterday, the Federal Government of Somalia, World Health Organization (WHO) and members of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) recommitted to stopping the ongoing outbreak of circulating poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) in Somalia at a three-day meeting convened in Nairobi, Kenya. High-level delegates at the...
WHO and EU hand over life-saving medical oxygen plant to Somalia: a landmark achievement in bridging gaps in oxygen supply in the country
MOGADISHU, 18 March 2022 – On 17 March 2022, Dr Mamunur Rahman Malik, the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative and Head of Mission to Somalia, handed over a duplex pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen plant to H.E. Fawziya Abikar Nur, the Minister of Health of Somalia, alongside H.E. Tiina Intelmann, European Union (EU) Ambassador to...
Anticipatory action and timely response help avert major outbreaks and protect the most vulnerable from health effects of drought
Community health workers explain methods of disease prevention. Credit: WHO/Somalia 10 March 2022 – Somalia has witnessed intermittent drought over the last 3 decades. Each drought, and natural catastrophe, has brought with it a string of health consequences, magnified even further in a country with fragile and vulnerable health system. CERF...
Somalia makes history by hosting its first ever health research conference in Garowe
Dr Mamunur Rahman Malik, WHO Representative to Somalia, in discussion with HE Per Lindgarde, Ambassador of Sweden to Somalia. Credit: WHO/Mukhtar 19 February 2022 – The COVID-19 pandemic has accentuated the importance of health research in finding solutions to health challenges. To address the most urgent health priorities using evidence-based...
Forgotten diseases: Achieving health equity to end the neglect of poverty-related diseases in Somalia
A technical officer from the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, Dr Mona Osman, after a discussion with patients. Credit: WHO30 January 2022 – In May 2021, the World Health Assembly resolved to dedicate 30 January each year as World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day to shed light on the public health challenge that neglected...
WHO Country Cooperation Strategy 2021–2025 for Somalia signs off. Partners hail it as a landmark event
At a signing ceremony held in Mogadishu on 11 December 2021, on the eve of Universal Health Coverage Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) country office for Somalia launched its five-year Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS), 2021–2025, for Somalia, which will guide its health programme over the next five years in line with national development...
WHO’s report on establishing emergency, critical and operative care services in a fragile setting while capitalizing on the COVID-19 response in Somalia officially launched
14 December 2021 – On 9 December 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) country office for Somalia officially launched a report entitled ‘Capitalizing on the COVID-19 response: towards establishing emergency, critical and operative care services in a fragile setting.’ Led by the WHO Representative to Somalia, Dr Mamunur Malik, this official...
Universal Health Coverage Day: translating the dream of ‘health for all’ into a reality
The concept of UHC addresses people of all backgrounds and ages. Credit: Fouzia Bano 12 December 2021 – In 2012, in acknowledgement of the role health plays in social, economic and political aspects of life, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution urging countries to progress towards the concept of universal health coverage (UHC). UHC...
