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Ministry of Health and Population of Egypt establishes risk communication unit
25 April 2019 – On 4 April 2019 the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population held a seminar on health and health-related risk communication and introduced the Ministry’s newly-established risk communication unit. Establishment of the unit was approved by Her Excellency the Minister of Health and Population Dr Hala Zayed in March 2019 in...
UNHCR, WHO commend Egypt’s inclusion of refugees in “100 Million Seha”
UNHCR/Scott Nielson 10 April 2019 – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and WHO, the World Health Organization, commend Egypt’s extension of the “100 Million Seha” campaign to include refugees and asylum-seekers in Egypt in the new phase. The “100 Million Seha” campaign, which kicked off at a national scale in October 2018 under the auspices of...
Egypt: first country in Eastern Mediterranean Region to eliminate lymphatic filariasis
12 March 2018 | Cairo | Geneva -- Egypt becomes the first country in the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the latest in the world to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (LF) as a public health problem. Egypt’s success comes after almost two decades of implementing sustained control and prevention measures...
Stories from Egypt: patients with hepatitis C tell their stories
Hepatitis becomes like any other disease Amal Ahmed, a 52-year-old Egyptian woman who lives in Cairo, told us: “I felt a continuing pain in my chest and abdominal area, so I decided to go and do a few medical tests in a hospital in Nasr City, where I discovered that I had hepatitis C". “Once I knew my diagnosis, I felt so scared and I stayed for...
WHO and Embassy of Australia explore areas of support to Egypt
26 February 2018 – Dr Jean Jabbour, WHO Representative in Egypt, welcomed H.E. Ambassador of Australia, Mr Neil Hawkins who visited the WHO country office in Egypt, on 25 February 2018, to discuss collaboration between the Australian Embassy and WHO in strengthening health systems within the umbrella of universal health coverage and other public health...
WHO, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Population of Egypt, celebrates World Rabies Day
10 October 2017 – WHO/ Egypt in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Population launched a social media campaign, on World Rabies Day, on 28 September 2017. The campaign aimed to raise community awareness about the principles of disease prevention, injury avoidance from an infected animal, associated symptoms and post-exposure measures. To achieve...
