01 August 2024

The Government of Somalia, WHO and UNICEF amplify World Breastfeeding Week as a call for increased breastfeeding support with equal access

Mogadishu, 01 August 2024 – The Federal Ministry of Health in Somalia, together with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), is coordinating efforts during World Breastfeeding Week to "Close the Gap - Breastfeeding Support for All." The aim is to ensure that all mothers...
03 April 2024

‘Better Lives’ programme provides critical health services to women and children

Eighteen-month-old Satham Hassan is among dozens of children being attended to at the Central Maternal and Child Health Centre in Borama town. According to his mother, Hamda Farah, Satham was brought to the centre to have his health checked. “The reason I brought him here is for us to know how his health is faring, like his weight. We think he is…
12 September 2023

Replenishing child nutrition through the Mudug Mobile Clinic

The Mudug Mobile Health Clinic in South Galkayo visits Deegaan internally displaced peoples (IDP) camp every Saturday in order to screen and treat children for malnourishment. The worst of the historic drought seems to be over in Somalia, but lives and livelihoods are still in recovery while climate change induced...
01 August 2023

World Breastfeeding Week marked by the Government of Somalia, UNICEF and WHO with a call for more robust breastfeeding awareness

Mogadishu, 01 August 2023 – To kick off World Breastfeeding Week, the Ministry of Health & Human Services, Federal Republic of Somalia, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the World Health Organization (WHO) called for all to promote and support breastfeeding awareness in every setting – this incl...
05 April 2023

Mobile Health Clinics take health services to remote areas

Members of the mobile health and nutrition team measure the height of a child at Abuur Village in Qardo. Operated by Puntland Ministry of Health, this mobile health and nutrition clinic comes twice a month to this rural and hard-to-reach area of Puntland. A member of the mobile health and nutrition team screens a ...
01 August 2022

Government of Somalia, UNICEF and WHO mark World Breastfeeding Week with a call to step up breastfeeding-friendly environments for mothers and babies

Mogadishu, 01 August 2022 – While marking World Breastfeeding Week this year, the Ministry of Health and Human Services, Federal Republic of Somalia, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) called for a concerted effort from all actors to ensure breastfeeding-friendly en...
20 April 2022

Guiding hands during complex births in Dollow

"All my other pregnancies were fine with no bleeding. If stayed at home a little longer, I would have died from profuse bleeding, yet my children do not have a grandmother to take care of them," Sokorey says with wide eyes. Sokorey Hassan lives in Kabasa, one of the biggest refugee camps in Dollow, Somalia. Her p...
01 August 2021

Somali Government, UNICEF and WHO mark World Breastfeeding Week with a call to protect, promote and support breastfeeding

Mogadishu, 1 August 2021 – While marking World Breastfeeding Week this year, the Federal Ministry of Health in Somalia, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and World Health Organization (WHO) called for a concerted effort to create an enabling environment for Somali mothers to breastfeed their babies to im...
16 January 2019

National Micronutrient Survey launched in Somalia

Mogadishu – The Ministry of Health and Human services of the Federal Government of Somalia today launches the Somali National Micronutrient Survey together with UNICEF and partners. The Survey is the first major nutrition survey the country is conducting since 2009. “For the next four months, we will be collecting critical health, nutrition and…