Brazzaville, 6 September 2007 -- Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights in the WHO African Region was the theme of a consultative meeting th
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 of a
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 notified
Brazzaville, 29 August 2007 -- Nigeria – the only country known to be with endemic wild poliovirus as at March this year – registered appreciable progress in po
Brazzaville, 29 August 2007 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) African Region has registered significant progress in eliminating leprosy , with 44 out of th
Brazzaville, 29 August 2007 -- WHO Regional Director Africa, Dr Luis Sambo has advised countries in the region endemic for onchocerciasis (river blindness) to e
Brazzaville, 29 August 2007 -- The World Health Organization proposes to spend US$ 1.2 billion in its African Region during the 2008-2009 biennium, representing
