Addis Ababa, 30 August 2006 -- The WHO Regional Office for Africa has developed a strategy to optimize child survival, growth and development, and reduce mortality among children less than five years of age, current…
Read moreAddis Ababa, 29 August 2006-- Low investment in health, huge out-of-pocket payments for health services, inadequate health financing policies and limited coverage by health insurance constitute some of the major challeng…
Read morePrime Minister Meles Zenawi opens WHO meeting, proposes measures to tackle health worker shortage in Africa Addis Ababa, 28 August 2006 -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has described the shortage and high…
Read moreAddis Ababa, 28 August 2006-- The “alarming trend in HIV incidence” in the African Region calls for urgent measures to further control the progress of the epidemic”, says WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, …
Read moreAddis Ababa, 28 August 2006-- African countries have been urged to establish or strengthen their medicines regulatory authorities (MRAs) with a view to checking the proliferation of harmful, inefficacious, counterfeit an…
Read moreAddis Ababa, 22 August 2006-- The fifty-sixth session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa will be held from 28 August to 1 September in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Regional Committee is…
Read moreLuanda, 5 August 2006 -- The WHO Goodwill Ambassador for the Leprosy Elimination, Mr. Yohei Sasakawa, has promised to support the current efforts to fight the disease in Africa, and invited the countries of the regi…
Read moreWashington, 12 July 2006 -- The government of Angola, and its partners in the Measles Initiative, the Global Fund on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative are launching a major …
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