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Meeting On IGAD-Djibouti Data Sharing and Protection Policy Framework Domestification

September 7, 2023
September 1, 2023 (Djibouti-Ville, Djibouti): The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), in collaboration with GIZ (Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit) has conducted…
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IGAD Promotes Country-level Actions in Nutrition Surveillance

August 28, 2023
August 26, 2023 (MOMBASA, Kenya): The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) through its Learning Network on Nutrition Surveillance (LeNNS) in…
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IGAD Hands over Information Technology Hardware to the Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health

August 10, 2023
August 9, 2023 (ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia): The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)  in collaboration with the European Union (EU), Ministry for…
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IGAD Health Technical Experts Collaborate to Support Interoperability Standards Towards a Regional Disease Surveillance System for Effective Regional Responses

July 11, 2023
July 11, 2023 (MOMBASA, Kenya): Health Experts in the fields of Integrated Diseases Surveillance and Response (IDSR) and Health Management Information…
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The IGAD Health data digitization project team calls for increase cross-border collaboration between Djibouti and Ethiopia

June 19, 2023
June 14, 2023 (DIKHIL, Djibouti): The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Health data digitization project team has carried out a…
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IGAD and the government of Djibouti (MOH) kick-off strengthening Djiboutian Digital Disease Surveillance and Monitoring through SORMAS

May 12, 2023
May 10, 2023 (DJIBOUTI-VILLE, Djibouti): The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), in collaboration with the government of Djibouti:  Ministry of…
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IGAD Continues to Advocate for the Implementation of the Cross Border Policy Domestication

April 26, 2023
April 26, 2023 (ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia): The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Digital Health Project team in collaboration with GIZ  is…
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IGAD Donates COVID -19 Rapid Tests to Djibouti Refugees Camps

April 2, 2023
March 30,2023 (ALI SABIEH, Djibouti): The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in collaboration with United Nation Higher Commission for Refugees…
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IGAD National Policy Consultants and Regional Policy Experts Meet to Collaborate on the Domestication of the Cross-Border Data Sharing and Protection Policy Implementation

March 2, 2023
March 2, 2023, (NAIROBI, Kenya) : The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) and GIZ Djibouti Digital Health Project team has…
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IGAD and WHO Strategise to Prepare for Health and Food Security Risks

February 16, 2023
February 15, 2023 (NAIROBI, Kenya): The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in partnership with the World Health Organisation (WHO) today…
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EQUALIZE – WORLD AIDS DAY 2022

December 1, 2022
IGAD join celebrating the World AIDS Day 2022 in all IGAD - supported refugee camps (54 sites) and IGAD –…
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IGAD Launches a COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign among Truck Drivers on the Ethio-Djibouti Trade Corridors

November 28, 2022
November 27, 2022, (PK12, Djibouti): The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), with support from the European Union through the EU-IGAD…
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IGAD is Cognisant of the Imminent Risk Posed by the Ongoing Ebola Outbreak

October 14, 2022
October 12, 2022 (KAMPALA, Uganda):  A High–level Emergency Ministerial meeting held on Cross-border Collaboration for Preparedness and Response to Ebola…
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Assessment on the Impact of Covid-19 on Migrant Workers in and from the IGAD Region

September 30, 2022
The report provides an overview about the situation of COVID-19 in the IGAD region and identifies the major socio economic…
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IGAD and UNHCR Signed a PR-SR Grant Agreement of US $1,738,528

August 16, 2022
August 15, 2022 (Djibouti-Ville, Djibouti): The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Executive Secretory, H.E Workneh Gebeyehu (PhD), and Clementine Nkweta-Salami,…
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IGAD Digital Health Planning Meeting

August 4, 2022
August 1, 2022 (AddisAbaba, Ethiopia) The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), commenced a Digital Health Planning Meeting with the Member…
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EU-IGAD COVID-19 Response Continues its Support to Vulnerable Communities Across the IGAD Region

July 5, 2022
July 4, 2022 (Djibouti, Djibouti): The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) commenced the 5th EU-IGAD COVID-19 Response Project Steering Committee…
IGAD Regional Cross-Border Health Digitalization progress
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IGAD Regional Cross-Border Health Digitalization progress

June 19, 2022
June 15, 2022 (Nairobi, Kenya): The IGAD-Health Digitalization team met with their GIZ colleagues in Nairobi, Kenya from the 13th…
IGAD Regional Health Data Sharing and Protection Policy Framework
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IGAD Regional Health Data Sharing and Protection Policy Framework

June 16, 2022
Regional Health Data Sharing and Protection Policy The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Is a regional trade bloc that seeks…
IGAD Executive Secretary and Health Minister for Ethiopia
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IGAD and the EU Hand Over Ambulances to the Government of Ethiopia

May 4, 2022
May 3, 2022 (ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia): The Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Dr Workneh Gebeyehu, on…
Impact of Covid-19 on Education systems in the IGAD region
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Covid-19 Vaccination, What’s the Status in the IGAD Region?

March 31, 2022
Early in the development of vaccines for Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), World Health Organization (WHO) led the establishment of…
IGAD Health Ministers meeting in Mombasa
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IGAD Health Ministers Commit to Scale up Health Services for Refugees and Cross Borders

March 26, 2022
March 25, 2022 (MOMBASA, Kenya): Ministers in charge of Health of member countries of the Intergovernmental Authority on development (IGAD) today…
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IGAD Trains Member States Experts on Quality Medicines Surveillance

December 7, 2021
01-10-2018, Entebbe (Uganda): The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) this morning opened a workshop for Member States’ experts in charge…
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IGAD and WHO Train for Harmonisation of Medicines Registration

December 7, 2021
20-08-2018, Entebbe (Uganda): The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), with support from the World Health Organisation (WHO), this morning launched…
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IGAD to Officially Inaugurate its Regional Cancer Centre of Excellence

April 30, 2021
April 17, 2021 (DJIBOUTI, Djibouti): The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) will officially inaugurate it’s Regional Cancer Centre of Excellence (RCCE) at…
IGAD E.S laying foundation for Regional Cancer Center
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IGAD Officially Inaugurates its Regional Cancer Centre of Excellence at a Foundation Laying Ceremony in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

April 30, 2021
April 19, 2021 (Addis Ababa). The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) marked yet another milestone on its ambition to establish…
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IGAD Delegation Meets H.E Dr Riek Gai Kok, Minister of Health of South Sudan in Juba, South Sudan

December 7, 2019
A delegation from IGAD Secretariat headed by Mr Elsadig Abdalla, Director of Economic Cooperation and Integration has met H.E Dr…