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World Immunization Week 2023: Somalia resolves to work on “The Big Catch-Up”
Vaccinators continue to save children from vaccine preventable diseases across Somalia. Credit: WHO/Somalia Mogadishu, 24 April 2023 – The Federal Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), observed World Immunization Week under the global theme of “The Big...
WHO continues to support and invest in community-based surveillance system for COVID-19 and epidemic-prone diseases with USAID support
WHO-supported community health workers help connect communities with nearby health facilities to win hearts and minds of locals. Credit: WHO/Somalia Mogadishu, 15 April 2023 – The World Health Organization (WHO) Somalia with the timely support of United Stated Agency for International Development (USAID) is helping the Ministry of Health to...
At-risk ‘zero dose children’ get vaccines as Somalia drought woes mount
As drought stretches into a sixth season, WHO outreach teams target unvaccinated children reaching displacement camps where measles and pneumonia are rife. 3 April 2023 – Baidoa, Somalia – Somali farmer Fadumo Mohamed Ibrahim’s crops failed in the drought and she set out on foot for help. Twenty-five days later, she and her daughter Khaliye...
WHO helps Somalia establish a functional medical supply chain as part of resilience-building for the health system
Air transportation is the major means of transportation across the country to maintain a medical supply chain across Somalia. Credit: WHO Somalia Mogadishu, 2 April 2023 – To ensure sustained and reliable health services in an extremely challenging environment, WHO has used innovation and creativity to help the Federal and State ministries of...
New study finds that 43 000 “excess deaths” may have occurred in 2022 from the drought in Somalia
Half of the drought-related deaths occurred among children under the age of 5 Mogadishu, 20 March 2023 – A new report released today by the Federal Ministry of Health & Human Services, WHO and UNICEF suggests that an estimated 43 000 excess deaths may have occurred in 2022 in Somalia due to the deepening drought, a figure higher than that of the...
International Happiness Day - a mental health approach
Mother and child wait to receive a vaccination at a camp for internally displaced persons in Mogadishu, Somalia. Credit: Ismail Taxta/ WHO. Mogadishu, 20 March 2023 – Since 2013, the 20 March has been commemorated as the International Day of Happiness. The day provides an occasion to recognize and reflect on the importance of happiness in the...
“Every breath counts”: KSrelief and WHO join hands to prevent childhood deaths by increasing access to medical oxygen in Somalia
H.E. Eng. Ahmed Albaiz, Assistant-Supervisor General for Operations and Programmes at the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief), and Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, sign project contribution agreement Riyadh, 14 March 2023 – H.E. Eng. Ahmed Albaiz, Assistant-Supervisor General for...
Emergency medical team deployed in Somalia as WHO scales up efforts to strengthen trauma care services
Experts of emergency medical team on a post re-constructive surgery visit at Madina Hospital, Mogadishu. Credit: WHO/Somalia Mogadishu, 12 March 2023 – The WHO Country Office in Somalia recently deployed an emergency medical team (EMT) in Mogadishu to support trauma care and also help build local capacities of doctors, nurses and paramedics s in...
International Women's Day: WHO and Ministry of Health strive to achieve gender equity in Somalia by employing technological innovations
Mogadishu, 8 March 2023 – The Federal Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), commemorates International Women's Day under the theme of "DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality" by calling on all the partners to collaborate in accelerating progress toward universal health coverage (UHC) by...
Commemorating Zero Discrimination Day: reducing stigma against HIV/AIDS
Laboratory workers conduct blood testing in Hergeisa, Somaliland. Photo credit: WHO Somalia/Fouzia Bano Mogadishu, 01 March 2023 – On Zero Discrimination Day (1 March), which is organized annually by UNAIDS to combat HIV/AIDS-related discrimination, WHO Somalia stands in solidarity with people living with HIV/AIDS. In 2023, the theme for the day...
