23 September 2016 | Geneva | New Delhi | Beijing − The World Health Organization (WHO) is piloting new approaches to overturn the “slow decline” of new leprosy cases almost 16 years after the disease was “eliminated as a…
Read moreFirst AVAREF TCC and SC Meetings, held in Kigali, Rwanda, 20–23 September 2016 The AVAREF Steering Committee (SC) plays an important role in the development and review of technical documents for use by ethics committe…
Read moreThis issue focuses on yellow fever, cholera, the humanitarian crisis in Nigeria and South Sudan and Rift Valley fever in Niger. During the period under review, there have been urban Yellow Fever (YF) outbreaks in Ango…
Read moreAddis Ababa, Ethiopia, 21 August 2016 – By 2030, the African Region wants to eliminate viral hepatitis as a major public health threat. With the launch of the document “Prevention, Care and Treatment of viral hepati…
Read moreOuagadougou, 15 July 2016 – WHO celebrates, from 14 to 15 July 2016, more than 40 years of success in the control of onchocerciasis or "river blindness", a parasitic disease whose vector is an insect that reproduces…
Read moreAddis Ababa – Heads of national regulatory agencies and national ethics committees from across Africa have agreed to harmonise their practices to strengthen regulatory oversight of clinical trials. At the end of …
Read moreBrazzaville, 1 June 2016 - Today the World Health Organization (WHO) declares the end of Ebola virus transmission in the Republic of Guinea. Forty-two days have passed since the last person confirmed to have Ebola virus …
Read moreJohannesburg, 29 April 2016 – According to the new World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for the prevention, treatment and care of HIV and Hepatitis, all 26 million people currently living with HIV in the Afric…
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