Luanda, 20 November 2012 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa today presented an updated Regional HIV/AIDS Strategy to the Sixty-second session of the WHO Regional Committee for A…
Read moreMonrovia’s Star of the Sea Health Centre is the first health facility in Liberia to offer women psychosocial and legal support alongside health services. In any one day, the Centre’s 40 staff can expect to see 100 wom…
Read moreA high-level Ministerial conference on health financing will take place in Tunis, Tunisia, on July 4-5, 2012. This conference is organized by the Harmonization for Health in Africa mechanism (HHA), in collaboration wi…
Read morePretoria, 28 May 2012 -- More than 200 million women aged 15 years or older are at risk of developing cervical cancer in the African Region. Annually 71,000 cases are diagnosed, resulting in 62,000 deaths. To stem t…
Read moreBrazzaville, 25 April 2012 -- African countries and communities should intensify collaborative work with their various partners for the “final push” towards universal access by putting malaria control and elimination at …
Read moreBrazzaville, 31 October 2011 -- An expert consultation on malaria vector control has ended in Brazzaville, Congo, with key recommendations on principles and decision making criteria upon which vector control method…
Read moreBrazzaville, 25 October 2011 -- Malaria vector control in the WHO African Region is the subject of an expert technical consultation to be held from 26 to 28 October at the WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville. …
Read moreThe drive to provide access to antimalarial interventions is producing results Geneva, 14 December 2010 -- A massive scale-up in malaria control programmes between 2008 and 2010 has resulted in the provision of enough…
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