WHO Director General, Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, said Tuesday in Harare that currently available evidence showed that genetically modified (GM) foods are "not likely to present h
After more than two years without the detection of wild polio in Nigeria, the Government reported three laboratory confirmed wild poliovirus type one (WPV1) cases with onset bet
Implementation of eSurveillance in the context of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response is the foundation for the monitoring of the health situations and assessme
As this year's meningitis season comes to a close, Felicity Thompson reports on how a new vaccine that costs less than a soda pop is making inroads into a dreaded disease in Afr
Harare, 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 p
An expert panel on health research has called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop and disseminate guidelines on the establishment and strengthening
