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WHO Ghana - Annual Report 2020
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As is the tradition, the WHO country office for Ghana, usually begins every year with a staff retreat to plan and priorities and strategies to strengthen WHO’s contribution to the national health agenda during the year. Albeit the COVID -19 pandemic situation and inability to organize a face-to-face retreat, the planning processes was done by clusters.
Working in collaboration with the Ministry of Health/Ghana Health Service and other allied health institutions and stakeholders, the WHO country office, provided support aimed at achieving its mission which is attaining the highest level of health by the people in the country though its six operational areas which are (i) Communicable Diseases (ii) Non-Communicable Diseases, (iii) Promoting Health through the Life Course (iv), Health Systems, (v) Preparedness, Surveillance and Response (vi) Corporate services and enabling functions.
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Abebe) Success factors, barriers, and other lessons learned from advocacy, social mobilisation, and community engagement play a pivotal role in supporting cVDPV2 outbreak response. Although the last confirmed polio case in Ghana had occurred in 2008, in July and August 2019, the country confirmed 3 events of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2). From the onset of the outbreak, the Ministry of Health/Ghana Health Service (MOH/GHS) declared a public health emergency of national concern; consequently, massive house-to-house vaccination campaigns were carried out by GHS and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in various regions. The United Nations Children s Fund (UNICEF), a GPEI partner, was one of the key actors in supporting social mobilisation and community engagement in all rounds of the response. In this document, UNICEF Ghana shares key learnings in the area of social mobilisa
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