The Representative of the World Health Organisation in Nigeria, Dr. David Okello has urged Rotary International not to relent in its advocacy and fund raising efforts to ensure that polio is eradicated from the world.

Dr. Okello who was the keynote speaker at the installation ceremony of District Governor of Rotary International District 9110 said Rotary’s commitment to the ongoing global polio eradication initiative is not in doubt.

Brazzaville, 9 July 2012 – The 62nd session of the Programme Sub-committee (PSC) of World Health Organization (WHO) in the African region, began today 9 July 2012, in Brazzaville, Congo. The five-day meeting is attended by public health experts from sixteen countries in the African Region and

The World Health Organization Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo has today highlighted the critical role that national parliaments can play in the adoption of universal health care policy and legislation, and the allocation of adequate resources for its successful implementation to protect poor people against catastrophic health expenditures.

The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr Margaret Chan has underscored the importance of health as a prerequisite for sustainable development.

In this Issue:

• Innovative approaches used to reach the hard to reach during AVW
• Door to door strategy was used for both mobilization and vaccination
• Cellular networks used for information dissemination

Bi-Annual Newsletter of the Zimbabwe Country Office, Volume 1 Issue 1 Jan.-June 2012

Accra, 30 June 2012 -- This year's African Regional Meeting of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Programme Managers ended on Saturday (30 June) in Accra, Ghana, with the adoption of a number of recommendations aimed at advancing the cause of the fight against NTDs in the region.

Lilongwe: On 29 June 2012, in commemoration of 2012 World Health Day, the vice President Honorable Khumbo Kachali who is also the Minister of Health, led all civil servants at Capital Hill, the helm of government ministries, to demonstrate and emphasize the need to ‘practice what you preach’ in prevention of non-communicable diseases.

Accra, 28 June 2012 -- The annual meeting of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Programme Managers in the WHO African Region began on Thursday in Accra, the Ghanaian capital.

On Friday 29 June, 2012 -- World Health Organization Nigeria organized a polio briefing meeting for representatives of Development Partners in Abuja. The objectives of the meeting were to provide updates on the current polio situation globally, and in Nigeria; seek additional engagement and support from DPs for Nigeria’s intensified polio eradication efforts, and to identify any opportunities with ongoing humanitarian and/or other relevant development efforts.

A high-level Ministerial conference on health financing will take place in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 4-5, 2012.