Advocating for health: empowering technical teams with communication essentials
3 March 2024 – Energy was rapidly building up as communications team was hyping up the colleagues at WHO Jordan Country Office, setting the stage for a highly anticipated Communication Essentials workshop. With minds primed and notebooks at the ready, the Country Office technical teams set out on an interactive journey to elevate their...
Jordan hosts the first Multi-Regional WHO–Harvard Interdisciplinary humanitarian response simulation exercise outside USA
18 December 2023 – King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center, KASOTC Jordan has hosted a pioneering training initiative that aims to reinforce the interdisciplinary humanitarian response capacities in the Middle East and Africa.
Jordan’s national action plan on antimicrobial resistance launches under royal patronage
4 December 2023 – Jordan’s new 3-year national action plan to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been launched. The Ministry of Health, working with national stakeholders, developed the plan for 2023–2025 with the support of the WHO Country Office in Jordan. His Excellency Professor Dr Feras Hawari, Minister of Health, launched the plan on...
Community heroes : a journey of transformation at Princess Basma Comprehensive Health Center
21 November 2023 — A community-driven effort has transformed the Princess Basma Comprehensive Health Center in Ras Al-Ain, a lively and busy district of Jordan’s capital, Amman. For the WHO Jordan Country Office, this success story highlights the power of collective effort and pivotal role of community-based collaboration in reshaping the health care...
Breaking barriers: Jordan’s pursuit of child well-being through inclusion
24 October 2023 – In Jordan, a country rich in history and diversity, a movement for change has been quietly growing, touching the lives of its most precious inhabitants – children. In a land where 6% of children aged 5–17 years have a mild to severe disability and 1% have an acute disability (1), a beacon of hope has emerged, casting a bright...
Measles-rubella vaccine in Jordan is safe and effective at saving children’s lives – WHO and UNICEF
28 September 2023, Amman, Jordan – The measles-rubella (MR) vaccine, provided for targeted children in Jordan, is safe and effective at protecting children from deadly disease and outbreaks, said the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), which support the Ministry of Health’s national immunization...