Brazzaville, 16 June 2008 -- The Day of the African Child has been celebrated on 16 June every year since 1991, when it was first initiated by the Organisation of African Unity. This day honours the memory of the ch…
Read moreBrazzaville, 11 June 2008 -- The Programme Sub Committee of WHO Africa has begun its session in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo on Tuesday 10th June 2008. The Committee which is a subsidiary body of the Regional C…
Read moreAlgiers/Brazzaville, 28 May 2008 -- An African ministerial conference on health research will take place from 23 to 26 June 2008 in Algiers, as part of the preparations for the Second Global Forum on Health Research…
Read moreGeneva, 23 May 2008 -- The World Health Organization Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis G. Sambo has called for continued national and international commitment to prevent and control noma, -the disease that disfi…
Read moreBrazzaville, 19 May 2008 -- Elimination of malaria is perhaps not imminent but the debate taking place worldwide on the urgent need to accelerate efforts to control malaria and eventually eliminate it opens up new prospe…
Read moreOuagadougou, 28 April 2008 -- The international conference on Primary Health Care (PHC) and health systems in Africa opened Monday in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, with host President Blaise Campaoré callin…
Read moreBrazzaville, 21 April 2008 -- Thirty years after the emergence of the slogan “Health For All”, the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa, in collaboration with development partners and the Government …
Read moreBrazzaville, 21 April 2008 -- The WHO Regional Office for Africa, in collaboration with development partners and the Government of Burkina Faso, is organizing an International Conference on Primary Health Care (PHC)…
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