Washington, 8 July 2006 -- The government of Kenya has launched a two-phase integrated measles vaccination campaign, targeting more than five million children between nine months and five years of age. In addition t…
Read moreAfrica achieves full coverage for training of health cadres in Noncommunicable Disease risk factor surveillance Brazzaville, 5 July 2006 -- With the completion in June of the training of health personnel from a g…
Read moreBrazzaville, 28 June 2006 -- Fifteen epidemiologists, clinicians and laboratory experts from four Central African countries are participating in a train–the–trainers induction workshop for avian influenza preparedne…
Read morePort Louis (Mauritius), 20 June 2006 -- A seminar to strengthen national capacity for health promotion in Madagascar, the Comoros, Seychelles and Mauritius got underway in the Mauritian capital Tuesday with a call o…
Read moreAccra, 17 June 2006 -- The World Health Organization Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Gomes Sambo, arrived in Accra last Wednesday to begin a five day official duty tour to Ghana. Dr Sambo, whose visit is at th…
Read moreHarare, 15 June 2006 -- With the recent completion of the latest rounds of treatment targeting the entire country, Burkina Faso has become the first in the WHO African Region to achieve nationwide coverage with anth…
Read moreBrazzaville, 26 May 2006 -- The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Gomes Sambo has paid tribute to Dr Jong-wook Lee who died on Monday, 22 May 2006 after a short illness, just before the opening of the 59th S…
Read moreGeneva, 24 may 2006 -- More than 1000 people packed into the Basilique Notre-Dame today in Geneva to attend the funeral of Dr LEE Jong-Wook, Director-General of the World Health Organization.
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