Informes

Validating Nigeria’s National Multi-Hazard Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan Given the population density, tropical climate and increasing migrations, Nigeria is particularly vulnerable to large outbreaks and other public health emergencies such as flood, fire, humanitarian…

Bujumbura - Funding from the European Union (EU) is helping the World Food Programme (WFP) to predict climate shocks and implement a series of timely activities to improve the resilience of communities in Burundi affected by…

Controlling the third wave: Learning from Nigeria’s response to COVID-19 outbreaks On the 27th of February, 2020, the first case of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak was recorded in Nigeria. Since then, a multi-partner incident management system hosted…

Situation overview The first confirmed case of EVD was reported in Guinea on 14 February 2021, with initial probable cases dating back to at least January 2021. However, genomic sequencing conducted by WHO1 indicate that the resurgence…

In an effort to make health services resilient with quality for emergency preparedness and response in Liberia, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), Ministries of Health and Education…

Du 20 au 26 juillet 2021, la composante police des Nations Unies (UNPOL) a initié une quinzaine d’agents de la Direction de la Protection civile (DPC) malienne de la commune de Mopti, à la prévention et…

Chad is a Sahelian country of arid land, extreme temperatures and… floods. When one pictures a dry area such as the Sahel, flooding is unlikely to be the first image that comes to mind. But arid and…

OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT The East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes (EHAGL) region is host to some 4.74 million refugees and asylum-seekers, the majority from South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Somalia, with…

NCDC hosts her 5th Annual Scientific Conference titled- “Building Back Better_ COVID-19 and Other Disease Outbreaks” Since 2016, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in collaboration with the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET) has held her…

Prevention, preparedness, early action, and response to disasters and crises are at the core of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). According to Mr. Jean Urbain Zoa, Secretary-General of the Cameroon…