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World Health Organization (WHO) - The Gambia
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The Gambia launches national plan to tackle antimicrobial resistance

The national action plan ensures that proposed One Health measures are feasible, valid and applicable within the Gambian context

Two years ago The Gambia carried out an analysis to better tackle the threat of antimicrobial resistance. The analysis, the country’s first of its kind, revealed a rising trend in multi-drug resistant tuberculosis as well as growing pathogen resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics. Babanding Sabally, Director of National Pharmaceutical Services…

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World Tuberculosis (TB) Day 2022 Commemorated in The Gambia

A Press briefing was organized at the National TB/Leprosy Office of the Ministry of Health to raise public awareness

On March 24, the world marks World Tuberculosis Day to raise public awareness about the global epidemic of tuberculosis and efforts to eliminate the disease. TB remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers. Each day, over 4100 people lose their lives to TB and close to 28,000 people fall ill…