Reports

Luanda - A vaccination campaign called "Final assault on yellow fever" starts next Friday, with the aim to immunize over 400,000 Luanda citizens that were not covered in the previous phases. Speaking to Angop, Tuesday, the director…

Namibe - Sixty-seven thousand of 102,027 fire arms so far collected from the civil population countrywide have been destroyed, said Saturday in southwest Namibe province the second general commander of National Police chief commissioner, Paulo de…

Luanda - Angolan minister of Health Luís Gomes Sambo considered Friday a success the first national evaluation response to yellow fever epidemic meeting. Speaking at the end of the meeting, the minister said that the initiative allowed…

Highlights An estimated 1.42 million people are affected (including 756,000 children) by the drought, including 800,000 people food insecure in the provinces of Cunene, Namibe and Huila. There are an estimated 95,877 children with severe acute malnutrition…

SUMMARY  In Angola, as of 1 July 2016 a total of 3552 suspected cases have been reported, of which 875 are confirmed. The total number of reported deaths is 355, of which 117 were reported among…

Luanda - The need to continued assistance programs to the most vulnerable citizens, despite the current economic and financial difficulties, was defended Thursday in Luanda by the minister of Welfare and Social Reintegration, João Baptista Kussumua. At…

Luanda - Angola has recorded no case of yellow fever for more than five weeks, said the director of public health, who attributed the decline of outbreak to vaccination campaign started February this year in Viana…

Luanda/Geneva, 6 July 2016 – The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) today launched a 1.4 million Swiss franc emergency appeal to support the Angola Red Cross Society respond to the worst…

This Emergency Appeal seeks 1,443,961 Swiss franc in total to support the Angola Red Cross Society (CVA) to reach 9 million people with social mobilisation, health and hygiene promotion (4 million people to be assisted directly…

Abstract ​European Medical Corps mission undertaken in the framework of the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism, 10–20 May 2016 A joint ECDC–European Commission mission team was sent to Angola to review the epidemiological situation of yellow fever in…