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World Patient Safety Day: Somalia, UN urge all stakeholders to redouble efforts to keep mothers and newborns safe in midst of COVID-19 pandemic
Mogadishu, 17 September 2021 – While commemorating World Patient Safety Day yesterday, the Federal Government of Somalia, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), urged health facilities, health care workers and other stakeholders to step up...
Protecting Somalis from COVID-19 while creating a fairer, more equitable world
A health care worker briefs an elderly gentleman after he receives his COVID-19 vaccines, Banadir Hospital, March 2021. Photo: WHO 15 September 2021 – Since the day the news of availability of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines emerged, the Federal Government of Somalia has worked hand in hand with the World Health Organization (WHO) and other key...
Somalia makes progress in establishing seasonal influenza surveillance to protect vulnerable communities from future pandemics
15 September 2021 – Somalia is one of the few countries in WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region without a functioning surveillance system for seasonal influenza. The electronic-based Early Warning Alert and Response Network (EWARN) surveillance system used in Somalia enables health workers, as well as state and national surveillance teams, to conduct...
Germany donates 1.3 million face masks to WHO for its COVID-19 response work in Somalia: more face masks means more people protected
Mogadishu, 31 August 2021 – The Ministry of Health of the Federal Republic of Germany has made in-kind donations of surgical and medical masks to the World Health Organization (WHO) over the past months. As part of this donation, the WHO country office in Somalia, received today 1 386 000 surgical and medical face masks for its work in Somalia as...
World Humanitarian Day: story from the field
19 August 2021 – World Humanitarian Day recognizes aid workers who put their lives on the line to help others, particularly during times of crisis. At the World Health Organization (WHO) country office in Somalia, humanitarian workers conduct their duties without hesitating, standing tall in the face of all kinds of challenges to support the Federal...
Race against time to boost COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Somalia
Somalia receives 302 400 Johnson & Johnson single-shot vaccines to protect more Somalis from COVID-19 High-level representatives from the Federal Ministry of Health and Human Services, the Embassy of the United States of America (USA), World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Assistance Mission (UNSOM) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)...
108 000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines donated by France arrive in Somalia
Mogadishu, 9 August 2021 – Yesterday, 108 000 doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Somalia. The vaccines were donated by the Government of France through the COVAX Facility, a partnership between the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), Gavi - the Vaccine Alliance, the United Nations Children’s Fund...
Somali Government, UNICEF and WHO mark World Breastfeeding Week with a call to protect, promote and support breastfeeding
Photo: WHO/Ismael Taxta Mogadishu, 3 August 2021 – While marking World Breastfeeding Week this year, the Federal Ministry of Health in Somalia, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO) called for a concerted effort to create an enabling environment for Somali mothers to breastfeed their babies to improve...
Scaling up active surveillance for COVID-19 and training community health workers to contain its spread
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office supports COVID-19 response in Somalia 28 June 2021 – Hawa Ibrahim Ali recalls being taken aback when she first heard about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in 2020. As a district medical officer for the Federal Ministry of Health and Human Services, and a hospital manager whose job it is to...
WHO and Sweden sign agreement to further strengthen the capacity of the National Institute of Health and improve digitalization of health information in Somalia
Dr Mamunur Malik, WHO Representative to Somalia, and H.E. Staffan Tillander, Swedish Ambassador to Somalia, sign agreement to strengthen the National Institute of Health and health information systems in Somalia Mogadishu, 28 June 2021 – On 16 June, Dr Mamunur Malik, WHO Representative to Somalia, and H.E. Staffan Tillander, Swedish Ambassador to...
