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"The Gambia Cares: No Woman should die giving Life"

Addis Ababa - July 13, 2010 – Ethiopia launches H1N1 vaccination. In a ceremony held at the Gandhi Memorial Hospital, in Addis Ababa, His Excellency Dr.

The Ministry of Health and Sanitation on Tuesday 20th July launched the start of a four day national Influenza A H1N1 immunisation campaign.

To scale up the national mental health services Ministry of Health has finalized the national mental health strategic plan of action for 2010 - 2014 with the support of WHO Coun

19 July 2010 -- Of the 5 million people are now receiving HIV treatment, 1.2 million started in 2009. This is the largest annual increase ever recorded.

Recent estimates of maternal mortality have shown that the WHO African region has made no important progress toward achieving the MDG target.

Eritrea celebrated World blood donor day on the 13th of June 2010 under the theme “Let’s Increase the Number of New Blood Donors” adopted from the global theme “New Blood for th

The World Health Organization Director for Africa, Dr.