Brazzaville, 29 November 2007 -- Measles deaths in Africa fell by 91% between 2000 and 2006, from an estimated 396 000 to 36 000, reaching the regional target three years early. The spectacular gains achieved in Afr…
Read moreBrazzaville, 16 November 2007 -- One hundred twenty national HIV/AIDS Programme Managers in the African Region and WHO technical staff working in the area of HIV/AIDS held their annual meeting in Brazzaville, …
Read moreIn mid-September 2007, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in some remote communities in the province of Kasai Occidental. A team of expe…
Read moreOuagadougou, 9 October 2007 -- The meningitis season from December 2006 to May 2007 saw an estimated 53,000 cases of meningitis, with an estimated 4,000 deaths, across the African Meningitis Belt. This was the highe…
Read moreBrazzaville, 8 October 2007 -- WHO, CDC/Atlanta and Research Coordinators of 17 African countries have agreed to accelerate the Global Youth Tobacco Survey to prevent millions of deaths and disabilities due to tobac…
Read moreBrazzaville, 2 October 2007 -- A four-day workshop on the Global Youth Tobacco Survey organized by WHO and CDC/Atlanta opened Tuesday in Brazzaville with a warning by WHO that tobacco use and addiction constit…
Read moreHarare, 25 September 2007 -- The African Region will be the first of WHO’s six regions to take tangible action in integrating oral health into other chronic diseases programmes. This was the key outcome of an exp…
Read moreBrazzaville, 6 September 2007 -- Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights in the WHO African Region was the theme of a consultative meeting that took place in Brazzaville, Congo from 3 to 5 Septemb…
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