At the 79th General Assembly of the United Nations, which is being held at the United Nations headquarters in New York; The United Nations Task Force on Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD) has presented an award to the Ethiopian Ministry of Health.

It is recognized that Ethiopia is able to carry out integrated non-communicable disease prevention and control activities and provide community-based services; In particular, it is stated that it is for the results achieved in preventing cervical cancer.

Dr. Avraham Niguse, Israel's ambassador to Ethiopia, reminded that Ethiopia and Israel have a strong historical relationship. He said that the friendship between the two countries is stronger than ever.

The ambassador explained that the health sector is one of the most important sectors in which the two countries work together. He stated that support has been given to cardiology, pediatric intensive care and maternal health, as well as rehabilitation.

The Minister of Health, Dr. Mekdes daba, who discussed with the founder and owner of the Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, said that to achieve universal health coverage in Ethiopia, health and nutrition, informed decision-making, innovation, and SDG targets, MoH has established strong partnership with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In the discussion with Bill Gates, the founder and owner of the Gates Foundation, senior government officials were present and the minister requested that the support be continued.

The 74th World Health Organization Forum on the African Continent continues in Brazzaville, Congo.

In the forum, it was stated that epidemics and other public health emergencies are occurring in Africa at various times and that they are a serious threat to the health of the community.

Remembering that Ebola, Covid-19 and other epidemics have caused great damage in the African region, she has raised the fact that the health risk of Mpox is especially worrying for Africa.

Dr. Faustin Engelbert Ndigulele has been elected as the next Director of the World Health Organization for Africa at the 74th African Forum of the World Health Organization in Brazzaville, Congo.

Dr. Faustin Engelbert Ndigulele, who competed as a representative of Tanzania, was elected as the next Director of the World Health Organization on the African continent by winning the majority of the votes cast by the member countries at the 74th World Health Organization forum in Congo Brazzaville.

The Ministry of Health is implementing a community scorecard to improve the health services provided by health institutions and to ensure accountability. In order to share the practice and experience of Ethiopia in this implementation system; officials from different departments and regions will gather to learn from the experience of the implementation of the community opinion rating system in Ghana. 

During the visit; The implementation of the food and nutrition strategy was visited at Bio Awale Health Center in Dre Dawa city administration; It was also stated that many children could be benefited by implementing the Sekota Declaration according to the agreement.

It has been noted that concrete results have been recorded in terms of benefiting the residents of Biyo Awale through the measures taken to make access to Lemat Turufat and community-wide health insurance services.

Apart from the visit, a sapling planting program was also conducted.

The State Minister of Health, Dr. Dereje Duguma, stated in his discussion that the appointment of JSI Ethiopia Country Director will strengthen the cooperation and relationship between the Ministry of Health and JSI. He stated that JSI is a strong partner of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Health wants to strengthen its partnership with JSI.

The theme of the conference was "Developing Health in Africa: Universal Health, Nutrition, Population, Drug Control, Crime Prevention and Education"; It is expected that they will approve a number of working documents related to health, nutrition, population and drug control in line with the African Development Agenda.

Ministers and delegations from 32 members attended the conference; Officials and experts from various African Union bodies and representatives of partner organizations were also present.

The visit was hosted by the Minister of Health, Dr. Mekdes Daba, and the State Minister of Health Dr. Derje Duguma; Health and finance leaders and experts from 21 African countries who attended and visited the Adwa Victory Memorial said that the collection of artifacts that show the real struggle and victory of the black people were organized and presented at the Adwa Victory Memorial Museum, which showed us Ethiopia's development journey.