oday Sierra Leone kicked off bed net distributions to help protect its population against malaria, which remains one of the country’s most deadly diseases. In total, 4.3 million insecticide treated bed nets will be distributed through the landmark nationwide campaign.

Speaker after speaker at a World Health Organization-World Bank meeting that concluded today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia drew attention to an emerging crisis of health manpower in Africa. The situation threatens to defeat the efforts of African governments, private health care providers, NGOs, and donors for health improvement.

Brazzaville, 10 March 2014 – The 5th Inter-Agency Meeting on Coordination and Harmonization of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria strategies in Africa was held on Friday 7 March 2014 in Brazzaville, the Republic of Congo.

The 21st session of the African Advisory Committee for Health Research and Development (AACHRD) is scheduled to take place from 22 to 25 April in Port Louis, capital of the Indian Ocean Island State of Mauritius, organizers of the meeting said in Brazzaville on Friday.

The four-day meeting of the 15-member expert committee is expected to explore practical modalities for addressing bioethiocal challenges in health research in the African Region as well as define mechanisms for enhancing research in traditional medicine.

Ebola virus disease (formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever) is a severe, often fatal illness, with a case fatality rate of up to 90%. It is one of the world’s most virulent diseases. The infection is transmitted by direct contact with the blood, body fluids and tissues of infected animals or people. Severely ill patients require intensive supportive care. During an outbreak, those at higher risk of infection are health workers, family members and others in close contact with sick people and deceased patients.

The WHO Regional Office for Africa is soliciting proposals for nominations for current vacancies on its Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group (RITAG).  Nominations are required to be submitted no later than 02 May 2016. Nominations will be carefully reviewed by the RITAG membership selection panel which will propose the selection of nominees for appointment to the WHO Regional Director for Africa.

Global Dialogue Meeting on the role of non-State actors in supporting Member States in their national efforts to tackle noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Intercontinental Hotel, Balaclava, Mauritius, 19-21 October 2016

Addis Ababa, 20 August 2016 – Ministers of Health of the 47 countries in the African Region agreed on priority actions to step up actions towards implementation of the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health 2016–2030 during the 66th session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa.  The Ministers committed to ensure the implementation of the Strategy in line with the Sustainable Development Goals along each country’s health development plan and goals. 

The 63rd Session of the Regional Committee took place from 2 to 6 September 2013 in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. During the meeting, a side-event on “Networking of public health research institutions in the African Region” was held on 3 September 2013.

Collaborative approach to speed distribution of AIDS treatment and reduce spread of tuberculosis in high HIV prevalence areas

21 January 2004 | GENEVA -- The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today a plan to expand collaboration between national tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS programmes to curb the growing pandemic of TB/HIV co-infection, with a principal focus on Africa where 70% of the world's 14 million people who are co-infected live.