Brazzaville, 8 June 2005 -- A consultative meeting organized to guide WHO’s action in the African Region ended Wednesday in Brazzaville with participants agreeing on the objectives, priorities and strategic orientat…
Read moreBrazzaville, 7 June 2005 -- Former WHO Director-General, Dr Halfdan Mahler, today in Brazzaville joined two former WHO Regional Directors for Africa, Dr Ebrahim Samba and Prof Gottlieb Monekosso, and two former Dire…
Read moreBrazzaville, 6 June 2005 -- An Expert Group on aflatoxins and health recommended at its just-concluded consultation in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, that concrete measures must be taken to control aflatoxins. Afla…
Read moreBrazzaville, 30 May 2005 -- African governments have been urged to ratify and implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the World Health Organization's first treaty which provides for restriction…
Read moreAs polio reaches as far as Indonesia, over 77 million children to be immunized at heart of outbreak to prevent further spread DAKAR/NAIROBI/HARARE, 13 May 2005 – Africa is responding aggressively to close down a polio…
Read moreBrazzaville, 4 May 2005 -- The second induction workshop for officers recruited to support countries in the WHO's African, Eastern Mediterranean, South East Asian and American Regions to implement the global initiat…
Read moreBrazzaville, 4 May 2005 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, has called on African governments to allocate adequate resources to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malar…
Read moreBrazzaville, 25 April 2005 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Gomes Sambo, has made an impassioned plea to African governments, communities, development partners and other stakeh…
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