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Distribution of Educational Material to 1000 Kids in mekelle Hadinet Subcity
February 10, 2024

Distribution of Educational Material to 1000 Kids in mekelle Hadinet Subcity

School material was provided for 1,000 children to help them to go back to school. Mums for Mums provide 10,000 exercise books and 3,000 pen for the total of 1,000 vulnerable kids who live in Hadnet sub city.

An integrated COVID-19 and the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign in Tigray completed
January 10, 2024

An integrated COVID-19 and the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign in Tigray…

Ethiopia introduced Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for girls aged 14-year-old in 2018 and COVID-19 vaccine in March 2021. Since then, HPV vaccination has been provided as two doses to girls aged 14 years with a six-month interval and the COVID-19 vaccine to all people aged 12 years and above.Tigray region was not able to participate in the nationwide integrated HPV and COVID-19 vaccination campaign which was conducted few months ago due to competing priorities. Tigray region launched similar integrated COVID-19 and HPV the campaign on 15th August 2023.World Health Organization (WHO) Ethiopia in collaboration with the Tigray Regional Health Bureau (RHB), UNICEF, CDC, USAID, PSI, Girls Effect, Project Hope, and other partners supported the planning, implementation, and monitoring of this campaign. The integrated campaign was conducted in 76 woredas of 6 zones of the Tigray region (except Western zone and some inaccessible woredas) in collaboration with High-level officials, religious…

WHO Ethiopia donates medical equipment and supplies worth over 1.3Million USD
April 19, 2023

WHO Ethiopia donates medical equipment and supplies worth over 1.3Million USD

Ministry of Health Lauds WHO project on primary healthcare service  World Health Organization Ethiopia Country Office (WHO-Ethiopia) through financial assistance secured from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development of Canada (DFATD) handed over 1.3 million USD worth medical supplies and equipment to health bureaus of regional and city administrations in Ethiopia.  The handover was made during a meeting convened to review the two-year performance of the WHO-DFATD project on “ensuring functional health service in the context of COVID-19 in Ethiopia”. The medical equipment and supplies were handed over with a view of enhancing the service delivery of primary healthcare units in Amhara, Oromia, Sidama, Southern Nations and Nationalities (SNNPR) and Southwest Ethiopia regions as well as Dire Dawa Administration.  State Minister of Health H.E Dr. Dereje Dhuguma, and Acting Representative to WHO-Ethiopia, Dr. Nonhlanhla Dlamini handed over the donation certificates to senior…

Exploring Justice & Accountability for Tigray
April 08, 2023

Exploring Justice & Accountability for Tigray

I’ll first start with the pretext that I am not a lawyer by any means, nor do I have a complex understanding of international law or policies regarding human rights violations. But, I consider myself a decent listener and have learned quite a bit from speaking to people who work in these spaces. The following reflects these thoughts mixed in with some of my own.As we already know, the war on Tigray has been marked with unimaginable atrocities– at least 600,000 people dead from violence, starvation, and other impacts of the siege; 120,000+ women and men survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV); 900,000+ in famine. These numbers are not just statistics. You take one individual, one story, and keep adding one more until you get to the hundreds of thousands–the millions–who have endured significant suffering over the past two years. The magnitude is heavy. To work towards peace in Tigray and ensure that these atrocities do not recur, every individual must get the justice they…