Monrovia, 22 April 2014 - The WHO Regional Director for Africa Dr Matshidiso Moeti has underscored the importance of involving the communities in the fight against Ebola. Speaking to residents of Zuma town, Monrovia, on…
Read moreBrazzaville, 5 March 2014 – A two-day meeting of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria programme experts from the African Union (AU), United Nations agencies, Regional Economic Communities …
Read more24 July 2013 -- On World Hepatitis Day, 28 July, WHO is advocating action against the 5 hepatitis viruses that can cause severe liver infections and lead to 1.4 million deaths every year. Some of these hepatitis vir…
Read moreBrazzaville, 29 March 2013 -- WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, Peng Liyuan, who is also the First Lady of the People’s Republic of China, today visited the Bethani…
Read moreLuanda, 20 November 2012 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa today presented an updated Regional HIV/AIDS Strategy to the Sixty-second session of the WHO Regional Committee for A…
Read moreMonrovia’s Star of the Sea Health Centre is the first health facility in Liberia to offer women psychosocial and legal support alongside health services. In any one day, the Centre’s 40 staff can expect to see 100 wom…
Read moreA high-level Ministerial conference on health financing will take place in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 4-5, 2012. This conference is organized by the Harmonization for Health in Africa mechanism (HHA), in collaboration wi…
Read morePretoria, 28 May 2012 -- More than 200 million women aged 15 years or older are at risk of developing cervical cancer in the African Region. Annually 71,000 cases are diagnosed, resulting in 62,000 deaths. To stem t…
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