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Source: World Health Organization (WHO) - Mauritius | Apr 22, 2024

Exploring the meaning of My health, my right

In the true spirit of this year’s World Health Day theme -- My health, my right -- the WHO Mauritius team decided to celebrate with children and young adults with special education needs

World Health Day 2024 was marked with purpose by member States, WHO Country Offices and their partners the world over, bringing to a close the WHO’s 75th anniversary year celebrations. This year’s activities were guided by the theme, My health, my right, and its message in favour of available, accessible and acceptable…

Source: World Health Organization (WHO) - Mauritius | Mar 19, 2024

World Health Organization (WHO) Mauritius launches set of health priorities for new two years

The launching ceremony marks the beginning of the operationalization phase of the WHO Biennial Workplan and Programme Budget 2024-2025

The World Health Organization (WHO) Mauritius Country Office launched its new Biennial Workplan 2024-2025 with the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW) on March 18, 2024. This results-focused document, which is the fruit of a close collaborative effort between WHO Mauritius and the MOHW, defines the priorities of the Organization for the next…

Source: World Health Organization (WHO) - Mauritius | Jan 17, 2024

Mauritius tackles anti-microbial resistance through formulation of a second Plan of Action

The 2024-2028 National Action Plan has been designed to provide a contextualized roadmap for confronting AMR in Mauritius

Mauritius has successfully developed its second national action plan on anti-microbial resistance (AMR) 2024-2028, through a three-week robust workshop supported by the World Health Organization. This comes following the evaluation of the first national action plan (NAP) 2018-2022 by the same team from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the…

Source: World Health Organization (WHO) - Mauritius | Nov 25, 2023

Mauritius: Health and social workers empowered on Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE)

In June 2022, a national strategy to proactively respond to the health needs of older people, the integrated care for older people (ICOPE) strategy and action plan 2022-2026 was developed with the support of WHO and launched by the Prime Minister in March 2023

Mauritius achieved another milestone in its quest to improving health and wellness of older people and promoting healthy ageing through training of a core team of trainers from multi-disciplinary background on integrated care for older people (ICOPE). Over the past few decades, Mauritius has been experiencing a rapid ageing of…

Source: World Health Organization (WHO) - Mauritius | Jul 18, 2023

World Health Organization (WHO) supports Rodrigues outer island to conduct risk profiling workshop using the Strategic Toolkit for Assessing Risks (STAR)

The risk assessment was facilitated by trainers from the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Mauritius who were trained during the National Strategic Risk Assessment earlier in February 2023

The Rodrigues Health Commission, Mauritius Ministry of Health and Wellness, with support from WHO, conducted a sub-national (Rodrigues) public health risk profiling exercise from 29 May to 02 June 2023 to better understand risks and prepare for future public health emergencies in the Island of Rodrigues. The exercise is subsequent to…

Source: World Health Organization (WHO) - Mauritius | Jul 06, 2023

Mauritius: Strengthening enforcement of new tobacco law through capacity building of police officers

The Commissioner of Police highlighted the importance of strengthening awareness on the harmful effects of tobacco among the young generation

Empowering the Mauritius Police Force on law enforcement for tobacco control is essential to ensure compliance of the new tobacco law, the Public Health Regulations on Restrictions on Tobacco Products, promulgated in 2022. This initiative was led by the Vie et Santé (VISA) NGO in close partnership with the Ministry of Health…

Source: World Health Organization (WHO) - Mauritius | Jul 06, 2023

Mauritius validates its National Action Plan for Health Security

With the support of WHO, the country was able to finalize the action plan to strengthen the national health security system drafted in November 2022

The Ministry of Health and Wellness partnered with the World Health Organization to cost and validate the Mauritius National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) during a five-day workshop in April 2023. With the support of WHO, the country was able to finalize the action plan to strengthen the national…

Source: World Health Organization (WHO) - Mauritius | Apr 17, 2023

World Health Organization (WHO) supports Mauritius to conduct national public health risk profiling workshop using the Strategic Toolkit for Assessing Risks (STAR)

Some 40 multisectoral experts, used the WHO Strategic Toolkit for Assessing Risk (STAR) to identify and prioritize the country's public health risks

Mauritius conducted a national public health risk profiling exercise with participation from key stakeholders and support from The World Health Organization from 22-25 February to better understand risks and prepare for future emergencies and disasters. The Mauritius Ministry of Health and Wellness (MoHW), the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Command, Ministry of Finance and…

Source: World Health Organization (WHO) - Mauritius | Feb 18, 2023

Mauritius strives to reducing barriers to life-saving preventive services and awareness raising to fight cancer

Cancer being the leading cause of death worldwide and accounted for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020 or nearly one in six deaths

Mauritius marked the World Cancer 2023 at national level with high commitment to reduce barriers to life-saving preventive services while focusing on raising awareness on cancer. The World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in Mauritius, Dr Anne Marie Ancia, the Parliamentary Private Secretary, Mr Serge Gilbert Bablee, and other personalities attended…

Source: World Health Organization (WHO) - Mauritius | Jan 31, 2023

Mauritius is Moving a Step Ahead in its Fight Against Cancer by Extending Vaccination against Human Papillomavirus to Boys Aged 9 to 15 Years

The World Health Organization collaborated closely with the Ministry of Health and Wellness to produce four short videos on HPV as part of the sensitization campaign

Mauritius is moving a step ahead in its fight against cancer by extending the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme to boys aged 9 to 15 years old as well girls. The national HPV communication campaign was launched on 13 January 2023 by the Health Minister, Dr the Hon kailesh Kumar…

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