The Organization calls for immediate donor support to respond to the unfolding human catastrophe 7 February 2003 | ACCRA -- The World Health Organization today issued a joint Action Plan to alleviate human suffer…
Read moreAbuja, 5 December 2002 -- The 10th meeting of the Task Force on Immunization (TFI) in Africa and the 9th meeting of the Africa Regional Inter-Agency Coordination Committee (ARICC) ended Thursday in Abuja, Nigeria, w…
Read moreAbuja, 3 December 2002 -- Countries in the World Health Organization (WHO) Africa Region made reasonable progress in the areas of accelerated disease control, disease surveillance and routine immunization during 200…
Read moreAbuja, 3 December 2002 -- The African Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) made "excellent progress" in the global polio eradication drive between 1999 and 2002, according to a report released Tuesday by th…
Read moreAbuja, 2 December -- President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria has stressed the need for African countries to focus their collective attention on the task of implementing full immunization of children throughout the Re…
Read moreChina and a number of African countries have adopted a plan of action for co-operation and development of traditional medicine, the WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Ebrahim M. Samba, has announced. Dr Samba to…
Read moreNairobi, 25 October -- Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the African Region stand to lose $45 billion over a ten-year period (2001-2010) if action is not taken to improve maternal health care i…
Read moreNairobi, 25 October --The first meeting of the Regional Reproductive Health Task Force -- an expert group set up by the WHO Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) to advise it on Reproductive Health issues -- has ended I…
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