Dakar, 20 October -- The majority of communities in four selected African countries still prefer to have babies delivered at home rather than in health facilities, according to the findings of a study conducted in f…
Read moreDakar, 20 October -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on countries in the African region to adopt and scale up demonstrated good practices that have improved reproductive health indicators elsewhere wi…
Read moreBrazzaville, 15 October 2003 -- The second meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) Africa Regional Reproductive Health Task Force is to take place from 20 to 24 October in Dakar, Senegal. Established b…
Read moreThe theme for World Mental Health Day this year draws the attention of the international community to the threat that emotional and behavioural disorders pose to the mental health of children and adolescents because they…
Read moreFollowing years of civil war in Liberia, access to safe drinking water and a coordinated health response are at the core of WHO's work in the country. Carefully, a young man unrolls a long green cord and lets it down …
Read moreThis series of feature stories is about people living with HIV/AIDS. Each story is very different. Some tell a tale of people struggling with the debilitating effects of HIV and the fear of an early death. Other stori…
Read moreJohannesburg, 5 September 2003 -- The 53rd session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa ended Friday in Johannesburg with the adoption of six resolutions, including one endorsing a strategy on women's health whi…
Read moreJohannesburg, 4 September -- Almost half of the 600,000 pregnancy-related deaths recorded worldwide occur in Africa which has only 12% of the worlds population, and only 17% of the global annual births, says a discu…
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