Hepatitis action plan strategic direction 5: innovation for acceleration – the future I’m lucky – just last year, on 22 November 2015 I received a liver transplant and I am recovering well. I had a supportive team of …
Read moreOn the World Malaria Day 2011, the 25th April, Angola and Namibia have shown their great determination to join efforts to control malaria and other current diseases along their common border, with the signature of a Memo…
Read moreBrazzaville -- Resistance to available anti-malarial drugs has become a growing threat to efforts to control the malaria in Africa, the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Africa warned in Brazzaville on Wedn…
Read moreThe aim of MLM training is to enable immunisation managers at all levels to acquire skills in planning, management, monitoring and evaluation. It will also give them the knowledge to supervise and support immunisation op…
Read moreMobile phones are becoming one of the world’s most important health tools, used in many countries to track exercise, ensure medicines are genuine, and even to read blood glucose levels. In Gabon, they’re being used to ra…
Read moreMalabo (Equatorial Guinea) 31 August 2010 – WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, has urged countries in the Region to take concrete steps to check the emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant tubercul…
Read moreEpidemiology and surveillance The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to monitor the evolution of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Nigeria. The Ebola epidemic trend in …
Read moreThe mission of the Sub-Regional Ebola Operations and Coordination Centre (SEOCC) is to provide a platform for agencies and governments to coordinate their response to the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West …
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