Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) in the WHO African Region now goes beyond the scope of Communicable Diseases. Non-communicable health conditions and events are now a priority in IDSR. In order to r…
Read moreHepatitis action plan strategic direction 5: innovation for acceleration – the future I’m lucky – just last year, on 22 November 2015 I received a liver transplant and I am recovering well. I had a supportive team of …
Read moreOn the World Malaria Day 2011, the 25th April, Angola and Namibia have shown their great determination to join efforts to control malaria and other current diseases along their common border, with the signature of a Memo…
Read moreBrazzaville -- Resistance to available anti-malarial drugs has become a growing threat to efforts to control the malaria in Africa, the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Africa warned in Brazzaville on Wedn…
Read moreThe aim of MLM training is to enable immunisation managers at all levels to acquire skills in planning, management, monitoring and evaluation. It will also give them the knowledge to supervise and support immunisation op…
Read moreOctober 2016 - The Regional Director’s Independent Advisory Group (IAG) has unanimously commended the Regional Director, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, for progress made so far in the efforts to transform the Secretariat of the WH…
Read moreLilongwe, 29 March 2007 -- Strategic collaboration among health practitioners is pivotal if southern African countries are to make significant headway in combating the region’s most daunting health challenges - Tube…
Read moreAn expert panel on health research has called on the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop and disseminate guidelines on the establishment and strengthening of ethical review committees on health to countries in the…
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