Burkina Faso News

The objective of this 5 days training is to strengthen the human resource capacity on malaria diagnostics and moni- toring therapeutic efficacy of antimalarial medecines in the African Region. The participants to this workshop are coming from The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

During the opening ceremony, WHO Re- presentative in Burkina, Dr. Djamila Cabral have insisted on the opportunity for the 25 participants to learn more and to share experiences from their respective Coun- tries.

The mass vaccination campaign against Meningoccocal Meningitis « A » will take place in Ghana from 2-12 October, 2012.

This campaign concerns Ghana’s three northern regions and will target more than 4 million people between the ages of 1 and 29.

In preparation for this important public health event, the national authorities in partnership with their financial and technical partners, decided to launch the preparation phase of this campaign.