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Every last child: WHO enhances polio awareness amongst Jordan’s deaf and mute community
Similar workshops for deaf and mute communities in northern and southern Jordan are being scheduled over the next few monthWorld Health Organization, in cooperation with Ministry of Health Jordan and UNICEF, conducted a workshop last week for more than 60 members of Amman’s deaf and mute community on the importance of polio and routine...
World Refugee Day art competition brings smiles to the faces of children in hospital
The theme of the art competition was ‘Syrian, Palestinian, Jordanian – whatever your nationality: we all need to be healthy. Draw your favourite person, thing or moment in hospital’. World Health Organization Jordan marked the completion of its 2014 World Refugee Day Art Competition last week, holding prize giving ceremonies in four participating...
WHO gets colourful with World Refugee Day children’s art competition in hospitals
The competition for children aged 5–14, will be held in Irbid, Mafraq and Amman.World Health Organization (WHO) is putting on a children’s art competition in Ministry of Health hospitals between 22 and 26 June to mark World Refugee Day – an annual UN commemorative day which recognizes the resilience of forcibly displaced people throughout the...
Next steps to combat polio in the Middle East
Although polio has been absent in the Middle East for 15 years, a total of 37 cases have been confirmed in Syria in the last six months.Amman, 11 May 2014 – A multi-country, multi-agency strategic planning meeting focused on limiting the transmission of wild poliovirus in the Middle East was held recently in Amman, Jordan. Led by WHO, and as...
World Health Day 2014: Vector-borne diseases
A sandfly vector of Leishmania parasites taking a blood meal through human skin.7 April is an occasion not only to mark the day on which WHO was founded but also to draw attention to specific health issues of global importance. This year WHO has chosen vector-borne diseases as a topic of focus. WHO will focus on cutaneous leishmaniasis, given...
Launch of the third national polio vaccination campaign in Jordan
The new vaccination campaign aims to target some 950,000 children between 0 and 5 years oldAmman, 2 March 2014 – The Ministry of Health in Jordan, with the support of WHO, UNICEF and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), launched the third round of the national polio vaccination campaign at the Mafraq...
