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@WHOZambia
World Health Organization Zambia
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🇿🇲 is hosting the annual regional Polio Laboratory Directors’ meeting. Over 30 polio labs in the region have convened to share experiences, discuss challenges, & latest innovations, technologies, & requirements for the success of the GPLN & ultimately polio eradication. #EndPolio
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@MoetiTshidi
Dr Matshidiso Moeti
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Deeply honoured for the lifetime achievement award by the Medical Women’s International Association received on my behalf by @BakyaitaDr , @WHO representative in Zambia. It’s my sincere hope that this recognition will inspire young women to pursue careers in public health!
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@WHOZambia
World Health Organization Zambia
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On behalf of WHO Regional Director Dr @MoetiTshidi , @BakyaitaDr received a lifetime achievement certificate of recognition from the Medical Women's International Association (MWIA) for her dedication to advancing public health and improving lives across Africa and beyond.
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@UNOCHA_ROSEA
OCHA Southern & Eastern Africa
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Zambia is experiencing the driest agricultural season in more than 4⃣0⃣years. Food shortages, due to depleting stocks and increasing commodity prices, will increase the risk of malnutrition. Read more on how the partners plan to respond⤵️
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@WHOZambia
World Health Organization Zambia
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@WHOAFRO
WHO African Region
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Zambia’s 🇿🇲recent cholera outbreak has demanded urgent action and oral #cholera vaccination has been a key aspect of the country's multipronged outbreak response. Of the 1.8 million people targeted during the ten-day vaccination campaign, 98.5% were reached👉🏿 #AVW2024
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@WHOZambia
World Health Organization Zambia
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Vaccines saves 4-5 million lives yearly! By guarding against serious diseases, vaccines are key to ending preventable deaths. Let's spread the word: #VaccinesSaveLives #AVW2024
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@WHOAFRO
WHO African Region
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Albert Nkhoma, a community-based volunteer in #Zambia 🇿🇲, has been doing health promotion in his community for 30 years. This #WorldHealthDay , we celebrate the people whose tireless work gives us hope that #HealthForAll is achievable. Read more here
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@WHOZambia
World Health Organization Zambia
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Access to health services should be a universal reality, not a privilege. Health is your fundamental right. #WorldHealthDay #MyHealthMyRight
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@WHOZambia
World Health Organization Zambia
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Happy #WorldHealthDay ! For the last 75 years, @WHO has worked with member states to promote #HealthForAll In 🇿🇲, we're committed to advocating for equal access to healthcare for all, regardless of background or circumstance. #MyHealthMyRight
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@WHOZambia
World Health Organization Zambia
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With support from @gavi , @BakyaitaDr handed over IT equipment worth over $87,000 to @mohzambia to help strengthen and streamline immunization data management, communication & coordination among healthcare facilities across the country 🇿🇲 #HealthSystemStrenthening #HealthForAll
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@WHOZambia
World Health Organization Zambia
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It's time to #endTB ! @WHOZambia today joins @mohzambia & partners to commemorate #WorldTBDay to raise awareness on the importance of early screening, testing and treatment to #endTB in 🇿🇲 YES! We can #endTB . #HealthForAll
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@WHOZambia
World Health Organization Zambia
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Together we can #endcholera
@WHOAFRO
WHO African Region
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Concerted efforts & collaboration by health workers, facilities & communities to end the cholera outbreak in #Zambia 🇿🇲 are paying off. Early detection & treatment are helping to curb the disease, resulting in continuous decline in cases & deaths.
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@WHOZambia
World Health Organization Zambia
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Our CBVs in #Chililabombwe are ready for the training in risk communication & community engagement. This is to help with the implementation of the integrated #cholera community response strategy in collaboration with @mohzambia , @ZMPublicHealth to #endcholera in hotspot districts
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@WHOZambia
World Health Organization Zambia
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@WHOAFRO
WHO African Region
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2022 WASH data for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that: ❗ 73M lack access to basic drinking water in urban areas. ❗ 193M still practice open defecation 💩. ❗ 762M lack access to basic sanitation services 🖐🏽🧼. We must join hands to tackle the global water crisis. #WorldWaterDay
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@WHOZambia
World Health Organization Zambia
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To end #cholera , we must all work together!! Thanks to the collaboration of the C/belt provincial & district health offices, 50 HCWs & CBVs in Kitwe have been trained across 4 pillars of #chorela community integrated response strategy - surveillance, IPC, case management & lab.
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@WHOZambia
World Health Organization Zambia
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#Day1 of the community integrated #cholera response strategy training for #CBVs in #Kitwe & #Ndola will also encompass the practical aspect of infection prevention & control (IPC) measures for both the CTCs and community oral rehydration points. #Together we can #EndCholera
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@WHOZambia
World Health Organization Zambia
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#WHOZambia team is on the C/belt province to train 200 volunteer HCWs & CBVs from 3 hotspot districts -Kitwe, Ndola & Chililabombwe in the community integrated #cholera response strategy aimed at intensifying community-based interventions to end #cholera outbreak in 🇿🇲 #
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@WHOZambia
World Health Organization Zambia
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It’s World Oral Health Day! Oral diseases are alarmingly common in the African region, affecting nearly half of the population. If left untreated, oral diseases can cause: 🔴 Pain 🔴 Discomfort 🔴 Disfigurement 🔴 and even death. Be sure to take care of your oral health.
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@WHOZambia
World Health Organization Zambia
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On Saturday, @WHOZambia generously handed over a vehicle to @mohzambia 's Mwinilunga district health office to strengthen active disease surveillance, manage public health issues, & facilitate the provision of essential health supplies in the Northwestern district's border areas.
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@UNZambia
UN Zambia
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"I stand for investing in women because they are agents of positive impact. Anything they touch flourishes, be it in the realm of health, education, community development, anything!"- Kafusha Kapema, Communications Officer, @WHOZambia
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