When cases of Marburg haemorrhagic fever were recently identified in a remote mining area in western Uganda, WHO and the Ugandan Ministry of Health immediately began an intense
Brazzaville, 31 August 2007 -- The fifty-seventh session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa ended on Friday in Brazzaville, Congo, with the adoption
Brazzaville, 30 August 2007 -- Cancer is emerging as a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa where 582 ,000 new cases of the deadly disease were noti
Brazzaville, 29 August 2007 -- “The harmful use of alcohol in the African region is rising and the situation will worsen if appropriate action is not taken
Brazzaville, 29 August 2007 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed a strategy for the control of the dual tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS epide
Brazzaville, 29 August 2007 -- World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, has proposed that, for the next decade African
Brazzaville, 29 August 2007 -- Nigeria – the only country known to be with endemic wild poliovirus as at March this year – registered appreciable progress
Brazzaville, 29 August 2007 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) African Region has registered significant progress in eliminating leprosy , with 44 out
