Brazzaville, 31 August 2007 -- The fifty-seventh session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa ended on Friday in Brazzaville, Congo, with the adoption of a resolution approving orientations for implementing the …
Read moreBrazzaville, 30 August 2007 -- Cancer is emerging as a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa where 582 ,000 new cases of the deadly disease were notified in 2002 , according to WHO Regional Director for Africa…
Read moreBrazzaville, 29 August 2007 -- World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, has proposed that, for the next decade African countries “substantially invest in implementing sustained mu…
Read moreBrazzaville, 29 August 2007 -- Nigeria – the only country known to be with endemic wild poliovirus as at March this year – registered appreciable progress in polio eradication activities in 2006. This indication …
Read moreBrazzaville, 29 August 2007 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) African Region has registered significant progress in eliminating leprosy , with 44 out of the 46 countries reaching the leprosy elimination target …
Read moreBrazzaville, 29 August 2007 -- WHO Regional Director Africa, Dr Luis Sambo has advised countries in the region endemic for onchocerciasis (river blindness) to establish control programmes with strong community parti…
Read moreBrazzaville, 29 August 2007 -- The World Health Organization proposes to spend US$ 1.2 billion in its African Region during the 2008-2009 biennium, representing 28.2% of the WHO global budget of US$ 4.2 billion for …
Read moreBrazzaville, 29 August 2007 -- “The harmful use of alcohol in the African region is rising and the situation will worsen if appropriate action is not taken to address the problem.” This is contained in a report b…
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