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Nigeria: Mobile Health Teams bring health care to communities

The joint efforts of the north-east Nigeria Health Sector partners have enabled mobile medical teams and clinics to deliver services to over 1.2 million people in 2019 and ongoing collaborations continue to increase this number.

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Cyclone Idai response

Tropical Cyclone Idai made landfall in central Mozambique the night of 14 March 2019, causing widespread destruction and leading to significant population displacement. On 22 March, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee declared a humanitarian system-wide scale up for a period of 3 months and activated 9 clusters. WHO Mozambique was designated as the Cluster Lead Agency of the Health Cluster to provide support to the Ministry of Health.

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Ebola virus disease outbreak in North Kivu, DRC

On 1 August 2018, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a new outbreak of Ebola virus disease in North Kivu Province. The Ministry of Health, WHO and partners are currently responding to this event.

Nigeria: Mobile Health Teams bring health care to communities

Cyclone Idai response

Ebola virus disease outbreak in North Kivu, DRC

Events

Partner Meeting The GHC Partner Meeting was held on 28-29 March 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland. Partners came together to discuss key learning from the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the cholera response in Yemen, gaps in global response capacity and examples from partners in action to address these gaps. Partners also consulted on the extension of the GHC Strategy 2017-2019 to 2021 and how to strengthen their engagement in the implementation of the 2019 work-plan. The Strategic Advisory Group and Task Teams met the day before to prepare strategic and coordinated inputs for the Partner Meeting.

Health Cluster Coordinator Training The fifth joint Health Cluster Coordination Training for current and potential Health Cluster Coordinators and Information Management Officers took place in Divonne-Les-Bains, France on 21-29 November 2018.

Health Cluster Forum The fourth annual Health Cluster Forum was held on 26-28 June 2018 in Geneva, Switzerland. The overall outcomes of the Forum include relations and networks among Health Cluster Coordinators; lessons learnt documented; recommendations formulated to strengthen coordination and improve the health sector humanitarian response.