23 countries race to halt the spread of the virus before the high-transmission season starts DAKAR/NAIROBI, 8 April 2005 -- With the polio virus' high-transmission season just months away, African countries are r…
Read moreBrazzaville, 6 April 2005 -- Health is a fundamental human right. Yet, to a large number of women, newborns and children in Africa, this right is denied. Every 60 minutes, 130 newborns die in the African Region. In …
Read moreBrazzaville, 10 March 2005 -- Operations of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the African Region are being rapidly decentralized “so that focus will be on country level activities” WHO Regional Director f…
Read moreBrazzaville, 7 march 2005 -- The Directors of the WHO Regional Office for Africa and the UNICEF Office for West and Central Africa open discussions Tuesday in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, on ways to collaborate i…
Read moreBrazzaville, 28 February 2005 - The World Health Organization (WHO) has pledged accelerated action to help reduce the disease burden in Africa and to assist countries in the region to achieve the Millennium Developm…
Read moreDAKAR/HARARE/GENEVA/EVANSTON, 25 February 2005 – A mass polio immunization drive starting today across Africa gained greater urgency from reports that a child has contracted polio in Ethiopia, the first case there i…
Read moreKigali, 17 February 2005 -- The Health Minister of Rwanda, Dr Jean Damascène Ntawukuliryayo, today opened the first ever high-level forum on oral health in the country. Opening a workshop on oral health Thu…
Read moreBrazzaville, 31 January 2005 -- Outgoing WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Ebrahim Samba, handed over to his successor, Dr Luis Sambo at the weekend, and proceeded to his native Gambia on retirement. In a trib…
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