Health Ministers from ten southern African countries and senior officials of the World Health Organization meet from 26 - 28 August in Harare, Zimbabwe, to examine the response of the health sector to the acute and large…
Read moreNairobi, 21 October --The first meeting of the Regional Reproductive Health Task Force, an advisory body established by the Brazzaville-based WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO), got under way Monday in Nairob…
Read moreCape Town/Brazzaville, 11 December 2013 -- The World Health Organization Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo has called for stronger national response to the fight against HIV/AIDS. He made the call while ad…
Read moreThe 63rd Session of the Regional Committee took place from 2 to 6 September 2013 in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. During the meeting, a side-event on “Networking of public health research institutions in the African Re…
Read moreChad has launched a mass campaign to vaccinate nearly 2 million people against meningitis A, the primary cause of epidemic meningitis in sub-Saharan Africa. This is part of a multi-year immunization campaign covering the…
Read moreThe awareness of early signs and symptoms for cancer types such as skin, cervical, breast, colorectal and oral in order to get them diagnosed and treated at early stage is important. Some warning signs of cancer are b…
Read moreThe WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti arrived in New York yesterday afternoon to attend a series of meetings of the United Nations. Heads of State and Government are attending the high-level meetings…
Read moreWomen's health is recognized as a human rights issue and should be promoted and defended as such. Women in Africa represent slightly over 50% of the continent's human resources and so women's health has huge implications…
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