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The WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization has shared interim guidance related to breastfeeding and the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines.  "Breastfeeding offers substantial heath benefits to lactatng women and their breastfed children. Vaccine efficacy is expected to be similar in lactating women as in other adults. However, there are no…

The Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) December Monthly Funding Update with figures for the 2020 GHO as of 31 December is released. The document is available through the following link: https://reliefweb.int/node/3702500

The requirements for the Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) 2020 were $38.61 billion for 64 countries at the end of…

Caroline Abla joined the GNC-CT team at the end of December 2020 as the Inter-Sectoral Collaboration (ISC) Helpdesk. Caroline has a master’s degree in public health and over 28 years of international experience in managing nutrition and public health programs both in the field and at headquarters. 

Caroline has consulted with UNICEF and WFP on the…

GNC pleased to announce the arrival of Jerome Shaguy, our new NIS DHIS2 IMO seconded from IMMAP to GNC. He is public health professional (Phd Candidate) with core competencies in information management. He has broad experience in designing and deploying complex information systems for planning and management. Jerome has worked across the world in…

The GNC partners' call on recent humanitarian emergencies in Tigray (Ethiopia) and Cabo Delgado (Mozambique) was held yesterday. The agenda included update on the current situation, challenges, priorities and next steps.

The recording can be found here