The WHO Regional Office for Africa is soliciting proposals for nominations for current vacancies on its Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group (RITAG). Nominations are required to be submitted no later than…
Read morePolio eradication remains one of the top priorities for WHO in the African Region. Efforts to eradicate polio began in 1988 with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). At that time, polio paralyzed nearly 1000 c…
Read moreThe World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa has welcomed the announcement that trials of a malaria candidate vaccine shows promising results by providing protection against clinical malaria in children. T…
Read more19 Country Synchronized Polio Campaign Joint GPEI / IFRC Factsheet – March 2010 Since the second half of 2008, a polio outbreak originating in northern Nigeria has been spreading in West Africa. The outbreak alread…
Read moreWomen's health is recognized as a human rights issue and should be promoted and defended as such. Women in Africa represent slightly over 50% of the continent's human resources and so women's health has huge implications…
Read moreHarare, 21 March 2003 -- Tuberculosis (TB) infects 1.6 million people and kills 600,000 others in Africa every year, making the disease one of the most common preventable causes of death from a single infectious age…
Read moreRegional Stakeholders Convene to Shape Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescents’ Health | Johannesburg, 6 May 2015 - Hundreds of leaders and public health experts from across Africa are gathering …
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