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WHO welcomes preliminary results of Malaria vaccine trials
The World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa has welcomed the announcement that trials of a malaria candidate vaccine shows promising results by providing protection against clinical malaria in children. T…
Read moreWest and Central Africa unite to stop polio outbreak
19 Country Synchronized Polio Campaign Joint GPEI / IFRC Factsheet – March 2010 Since the second half of 2008, a polio outbreak originating in northern Nigeria has been spreading in West Africa. The outbreak alread…
Read moreVideo: The Mothers of Africa
Women'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…
Read moreTB infects 1.6 million, kills 600,000 annually in Africa
Harare, 21 March 2003 -- Tuberculosis (TB) infects 1.6 million people and kills 600,000 others in Africa every year, making the disease one of the most common preventable causes of death from a single infectious age…
Read moreKnow your hepatitis status – increasing access to testing for a hidden infection.
A staggering 95% of people infected with hepatitis B or C around the world do not know they are infected. One reason for this is that people can live without symptoms for many years. When they find out they have hepatiti…
Read moreMeeting Calls for “Smart Investments” for enhanced impact on HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria
Brazzaville, 10 March 2014 – The 5th Inter-Agency Meeting on Coordination and Harmonization of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria strategies in Africa was held on Friday 7 March 2014 in Brazzaville, the Republi…
Read moreThe Third African Regional Conference on Immunization (ARCI)
Theme: “Towards a Polio-free Africa.” The specific objectives of this conference are: To review the progress in implementation of immunization programme activities in the Region and propose the way forward;…
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