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Senegal

Republic of Senegal

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Dakar is the capital city of the Republic of Senegal.

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28 April 2023

Departmental news

Senegal, Thailand and Uruguay unite to reduce dental mercury

7 December 2022

Departmental news

Dr Ibrahima Socé Fall appointed as Director, Neglected Tropical Diseases

23 May 2022

Statement

ACT-Accelerator Facilitation Council co-chairs welcome financial and policy commitments made at the Second Global COVID-19 Summit

24 August 2020

News release

172 countries and multiple candidate vaccines engaged in COVID-19 vaccine Global Access Facility

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1 May 2021

Codex trust fund: country story: Senegal

This country story outlines the experience of Senegal in implementing their Codex Trust Fund project. It highlights the importance for a country of building...

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15 February 2021

Contraception within the context of adolescents’ sexual and reproductive lives

The rationale for the development of the country profiles is that while data on individual indicators such as child marriage prevalence or modern contraceptive...

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15 June 2018

Minamata initial assessment - Health component in West Africa A summary of the health impact assessment...

The Ministries of Public Health in six West African countries, Benin, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo, with the support of WHO, collected data...

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