Regional Director
Regional Director
Speeches and Messages by Theme
Acceptance /Inaugural Speeches
RD’s Acceptance speech at the 126th Session of the WHO Executive Board. Geneva, Switzerland - 19 January 2010
Acceptance speech by Dr Luis G Sambo on the confirmation of his appointment by the WHO Executive Board as WHO Regional Director for Africa - 1 February 2005
Inaugural Speech by WHO Regional Director For Africa Dr Luis Gomes Sambo - 1 February 2005
Ageing
World Health Day 2012 - 7 April 2012
Cancer - Prevention and Control
World Cancer Day 2012 - 04 February 2012
World Cancer Day 2011 - 04 February 2011
World Cancer Day 2010 - 4 February 2010
World Cancer Day 2008 - 4 February 2008
Diabetes
World Diabetes Day 2010 - 14 November 2010
World Diabetes Day 2009 - 14 November 2009
African Conference on Diabetes and Associated Diseases - 12 November 2009
Drug resistance
World Health Day 2011 - 7 April 2011
Health and Environment
World Health Day 2010 - 7 April 2010
Opening of the First Interministerial Conference on Health and Environment in Africa Libreville, Gabon - 28 August 2008
Health Partnerships & MDGs
Meeting With Members of the Diplomatic Corps Accredited to Congo - 17 February 2012
Health Partners Forum, 7 - 8 March, Nairobi, Kenya - 8 March 2007
Health Promotion
Keynote Address by Dr L. G. Sambo, Regional Director of WHO Regional Office for Africa at the 13th World Congress on Public Health Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - 23-27 April, 2012
7th Global Conference on Health Promotion “Promoting Health and Development: Closing the Implementation Gap” - 26 October 2009
Health Research
Ministerial Conference on Research for Health in the WHO African Region. Algiers - 23 June 2008
Regional Consultation on WHO Health Research Strategy - 4 March 2008
24th Session of the African Advisory Committee on Health Research and Development, Brazzaville, Congo - 26 September 2007
Health Security - Climate Change
World Health Day 2008 - 7 April 2008
Health Security- Emergency and humanitarian action
Opening of the African Conference on Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Johannesburg, South Africa, 11-13 August 2009 - 11 August 2009
Extraordinary Meeting of Ministers of Health of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) - 11 May 2009
World Health Day 2009 - 7 Apr 2009
Regional Meeting on Pandemic Influenza, Closing Remarks - 13 January 2006
Regional Meeting on Pandemic Influenza, Opening Remarks 12 January 2006
Health Security - Infectious Diseases
World Health Day 2007 - 7 April 2007
Health Systems and Services
World Blood Donor Day 2011 - 16 June 2011
WHO Regional Director for Africa addresses delegates at the Vatican - 18 November 2010
World Health Summit - Berlin, Germany - 11 October 2010
World Blood Donor Day 2010 - 14 June 2010
World Blood Donor Day 2009 - 14 June 2009
Opening Speech, Consultative Meeting on Primary Health Care and Healthy Systems, Brazzaville, 16 to18 October 2007 - 18 October 2007
World Blood Donor Day 2007 - 14 June 2007
3rd Meeting of Health Ministers of the African Union - 11 April 2007
World Blood Donor Day 2006 - 14 June 2006
World Health Day 2006 - 7 April 2006
World Blood Donor Day 2005 - 14 June 2005
HIV/AIDS
World AIDS Day 2010 - 1 December 2010
World AIDS Day 2009 - 1 December 2009
World AIDS Day 2008 - 1 December 2008
World AIDS Day 2007 - 1 December 2007
World AIDS Day 2006 - 1 December 2006
Opening of the Joint UNAIDS, UNICEF, World Bank and WHO International Conference on Community Health, 20-22 November 2006 - 20 November 2006
Opening Ceremony of the Ministerial Meeting on HIV/AIDS, TB & Malaria, Abuja - 3 May 2006
Launching of the Initiative of Acceleration of HIV Prevention in the African Region, Addis Ababa - 11 April 2006
Continental Consultation on Universal Access to Services against HIV/AIDS in Africa - 6 March 2006
Consultation on Prevention of HIV Infections in the African Region Brazzaville, Congo - 10 June 2005
Immunization
Message of the Regional Director Dr Luis G. Sambo on the occasion of the African Vaccination Week observed from 23 to 28 April 2012 - 23 April 2012
Official opening of the 1st Annual Regional Conference on Immunization in Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe, 14th to 17th December 2009 - 14 December 2009
Regional Forum on Haemophilus Type B and Pneumococcal Infections and Yellow Fever, Brazzaville, 17 – 19 January 2007 - Opening Statement - 17 January 2007
Official opening of the 14th Session of the Task Force on Immunization (TFI), Maputo, Mozambique - 1 December 2006
Malaria
World Malaria Day 2011 - 25 April 2011
World Malaria Day 2010 - 23 April 2010
World Malaria Day 2009 - 25 April 2009
Africa Malaria Day 2008 - 25 April 2008
Africa Malaria Day 2007 - 25 Apr 2007
Opening Ceremony of the Ministerial Meeting on HIV/AIDS, TB & Malaria, Abuja - 3 May 2006
Africa Malaria Day 2006 - Get Your Act Together - 25 April 2006
Africa Malaria Day - 25 April 2005
Mental Health
World Mental Health Day 10 October 2011
World Mental Health Day - 10 October 2010
World Health Mental Day - 10 October 2008
Neglected Tropical Diseases
No Noma Day - 22 May 2008
Noncommunicable Diseases
Onchocerciasis Control
15th Session of the Joint Action Forum of APOC, Tunis, Tunisia, 08-10 December 2009 - 8 December 2009
Regional Committee for Africa
Sixtieth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa - 30 August 2010
Fifty-ninth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa - 31 August 2009
Opening of the Fifty-Eighth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa.Yaounde, Republic of Cameroon, 1–5 September 2008 - 1 September 2008
Opening Ceremony of the Fifty-Seventh Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa Brazzaville - 27 August 2007
Regional Director's Reports
Presentation of the Biennial Report of Regional Director on the Work of WHO in the African Region 2006-2007 - 24 September 2008
Small Island Developing States
Speech by the Regional Director - SIDS Meeting - Seychelles - 23 October 2006
Tobacco
World No Tobacco Day 2011 - 31 May 2011
World No Tobacco Day 2010 - 31 May 2010
World No Tobacco Day - 31 May 2009
World No Tobacco Day - 31 May 2008
World No Tobacco Day - 31 May 2007
World No Tobacco Day 2006 - 31 May 2006
World No Tobacco Day 2005 - 31 May 2005
Traditional Medicine
African Traditional Medicine Day - 31 August 2011
Fourth African Traditional Medicine Day - 31 August 2006
Third African Traditional Medicine Day. - 31 August 2005
Tuberculosis
World Tuberculosis Day 2012 - 24 March 2012
World Tuberculosis Day 2011 - 24 March 2011
World Tuberculosis Day 2010 - 24 March 2010
World Tuberculosis Day 2009 - 24 March 2009
World Tuberculosis Day 2008 - 24 March 2008
4World Tuberculosis Day 2008 - 24 March 2007
Opening Ceremony of the Ministerial Meeting on HIV/AIDS, TB & Malaria, Abuja - 3 May 2006
World Tuberculosis Day 2006 24 March 2006
8th Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board Meeting 3-4 May 2005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - 3 May 2005
World Tuberculosis Day, 2005 24 March 2005
Women, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
Message of the Regional Director on the Occasion of Women’s Health Day in the WHO African Region, edition 2011 - 4 September 2011
Launch of the Regional Commission on Women’s Health in the African Region- 15 April 2010
4th Session of the African Union Conference of Ministers of Health - 7 May 2009
International Women’s Day 2009 - 8 March 2009
International Women’s Day 2008 - 8 March 2008
World Health Day 2005 - 7 April 2005
International Women's Day 2005 - 8 March 2005
International Day on Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation - 6 February 2005
Briefing Meeting With Members of the Diplomatic Corps Accredited to Congo - 10 February 2012
Speech on the occasion of the 2nd SADC Military Sub-Committee Workshop on HIV/AIDS, Luanda, Angola - 28 September 2011
RDO Highlights
Atlas of Health Statistics of the African Region 2011
[pdf 8.3Mb]
The Work of WHO in the African Region 2010
Annual Report of the Regional Director
[pdf 1.33Mb]
Towards reaching the health-related millennium development goals: progress report and the way forward
Report of the Regional Director [pdf 6MB]
Achieving Sustainable Health Development in the African Region
Strategic Directions for WHO 2010–2015
[pdf 1.1Mb]