Brazzaville/Geneva, 12 November 2010 -- Dr Luis Gomes Sambo the Regional Director of the World Health Organization in the African Region and Prof. Michel Kazatchkine Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight Ai…
Read moreBrazzaville, 25 April 2010 – WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, on Sunday made a passionate appeal for increased engagement of communities to support ongoing malaria prevention and control efforts, and its …
Read more15 December 2009 -- Significant progress has been made in delivering life-saving malaria nets and treatments over the last few years, but the coverage of malaria programmes needs to be stepped up drastically in order to …
Read moreKigali, 1 September 2009 -- WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, has warned of widespread development of drug resistance related to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and proposed concrete measures to address…
Read moreBrazzaville, 25 April 2009 - WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, has urged malaria endemic countries in the Region to strive to achieve universal access to cost-effective malaria control interventions s…
Read moreZambia is the latest African country to reach the Roll Back Malaria target of a more than 50% reduction of mortality from malaria compared to 2000. On World Malaria Day, celebrated on 25 April, Zambia's efforts will be p…
Read moreA one-day High-level Leadership Meeting on Buruli Ulcer(BU) organized by WHO and the Govenment of Benin in Cotonou on Monday (30 March) has adopted the Cotonou Declaration on Buruli Ulcer which commits BU-endemic counties to take a number of measures to prevent and control the disease.
Read moreCotonou, 30 March 2009 -- Based on the best available evidence, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) new strategy for Buruli ulcer (BU) control will focus on early case detection…
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