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The number of overweight children aged under 5 in Africa has nearly doubled since 1990

Commission presents its final report, calling for high-level action…
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Stakeholders Meeting for Emerging Pandemic Threats FAO, OIE and WHO IDENTIFY PROJECT, Entebbe, Uganda, 2-4 November 2010

Executive summary
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Strengthening health systems in Africa

Harare -- Governments in the WHO African Region have been urged…
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TB infects 1.6 million, kills 600,000 annually in Africa

Harare, 21 March 2003 -- Tuberculosis (TB) infects 1.6 million people…
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Wild polio and vaccine derived polio in Nigeria

After more than two years without the detection of wild polio in…
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Ebola treatment centre in Maghuraka, Sierra Leone UNMEER/Martine Perret

"Intensify surveillance" to beat Ebola says Dr Moeti

The surveillance of outbreaks of the Ebola disease in West Africa…
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WHO Regional Committee for Africa opens in Harare

Harare , 8 October -- Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has…
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Communities at the heart of the fight against yellow fever in Angola

Huambo is Angola’s second biggest city and the province with the…
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