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29th Regional Programme Meeting opens in Brazzaville

The 29th Regional Programme Meeting of the African Region of the World Health Organization (AFRO) opened Wednesday at the Organization's Regional Office in Brazzaville, Congo.

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Let's Move For Our Health

"Move for health." This is the slogan for this year's World Health Day (7 April 2002) celebration whose theme, physical activity, emphasizes the

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Un Deputy Secretary General Calls On International Community To Support Poverty Reduction In Africa

New York -- United Nations Deputy Secretary General Louise Frechette has called on the international community to help in "addressing the needs of Africa w

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Accelerating immunization in the African region

Harare -- The World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa has developed a strategy aimed at accelerating implementation of the Expanded Programme

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Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Swaziland

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Communities at the heart of the fight against yellow fever in Angola

Huambo is Angola’s second biggest city and the province with the largest urban population after Luanda province.

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3rd Meeting on African Surveillance Informatics Governance Board (ASIGB)

Implementation of eSurveillance in the context of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response is the foundation for the monitoring of the health situations and assessme

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Treatment and support outside the hospital is just as important as the medical treatment.

Hepatitis action plan strategic direction 4: financing for sustainability After consulting with several doctors about my experience with chronic pain and crippling fatigue, I was diagnosed with hepatitis C. By the time I was finally diagnosed, the infect

Hepatitis action plan strategic direction 5: innovation for acceleration – the future

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