Health Cluster

GAROWE (SoOHA) – Thousands of medicated mosquito nets have been distributed to some of the poorest families in Puntland to prevent the seasonal spread of malaria in this region of northeastern Somalia. More than 10,000 families in IDP camps in the towns of Bosaso, Qardho, Garowe, Burtinle, Galkayo, and those …

MOGAISHU (SoOHA) – The Ministry of Health (MoH) of Somalia has announced 36 new suspected cases of cholera, with no deaths, for epidemiological week 17 (22 to 28 April) in 2019. No cases were reported between epidemiological weeks 1 and 7 due to closure of the main cholera treatment center, …

Deaths caused by infections from antibiotic-resistant bacteria will skyrocket over the next two decades, along with huge economic costs, without immediate, ambitious and coordinated action, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) and partners warned on Monday.  According to a groundbreaking report, the UN Ad hoc Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance warned that if no action is taken, drug-resistant diseases could cause …

NEW YORK (SoOHA) – An estimated 169 million children missed out on the first dose of the measles vaccine between 2010 and 2017, or 21.1 million children a year on average, UNICEF said today. Widening pockets of unvaccinated children have created a pathway to the measles outbreaks hitting several countries around …

ELBARDE (SoOHA) – Four people have died in the past three weeks in a measles outbreak in southern Somalia’s Bakool region, in an area close to the Ethiopian border. According to Dr Asar Adan Mohamed, who operates one of two maternal and child health services (MCH) clinics in Elbarde town, …

HAVANA (SoOHA) – Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel spoke by phone on Thursday with his counterparts in Kenya and Somalia about negotiations for the release of two Cuban doctors abducted a week ago in Kenya. Diaz-Canel said via Twitter that he spoke with Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta and Somalia’s Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed …

MOGADISHU ( SoOHA) – The Somali Health and Nutrition (SHINE) programme comes at a critical point in Somalia’s history with the aim of improving the health and nutrition status of Somalis, with a particular focus on women and children. The UKAid funded programme commenced in 2016 and will run through to …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Qatar Charity (QC) signed a cooperation and partnership agreement with the Ministry of Health and Social Care, the Federal Republic of Somalia. The pact, signed at the Ministry headquarters in Mogadishu, came as part of Qatar Charity’s keenness to coordinate and co-operate with all its government partners …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Somalia kicked off a countrywide polio campaign yesterday, as part of ongoing efforts to sustain polio immunity and protection in response to the outbreaks of two strains of poliovirus currently circulating. The campaign, which runs from 24-27 March 2019, aims to reach as many as possible of …

DADAAB (SOHA) – An eye surgery clinic carried out by a US-based Somali doctor and funded by a diaspora youth group has helped 300 Somali refugees living in the Dadaab refugee camps in northern Kenya to regain their sight. The clinic was organised by Dr Abdikadir Mohamed Mohamud, a medical …