Luanda, 19 November 2012 -- The Sixty-second session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa was officially opened at the Talatona Hotel Conference Centre, Luanda, Angola by the Vice-President of Angola, His Excellency Manuel Vicente.

Luanda, 19 de Novembro de 2012 -- A sexagésima segunda sessão do Comité Regional da Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) para África foi oficialmente aberta no Centro de Conferências do Hotel Telatona, em Luanda, Angola, pelo Vice-Presidente de Angola, sua Excelência, o senhor Manuel Vicente.

Luanda 17 November 2012  - Health Ministers and heads of delegations from 46 countries in the WHO African Region have begun arriving in Luanda to attend the 62nd session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa. The meeting takes place from 19-23 November 2012.

The five-day event will also bring together senior officials of the Organization and Representatives of UN Agencies, Funds and Programmes, civil society, bilateral,  multilateral organizations, and other development partners.

The First African Road Safety Day will be launched on 18 November 2012, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Pursuant to the African Union Assembly decisions to remember the third Sunday of each November as an African Road Safety Day which is also the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims, will be jointly celebrated with the African Union Commission, United Nations Economic Commission, WHO, Government of Ethiopia and other key road safety stakeholders.

I. Background and Justification

Brazzaville, 16 November 2012 -- The 62nd session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa is scheduled to take place from 19 to 23 November in Luanda, Angola. 

Cotonou, 15 November 2012 -- The WHO Regional Director for Africa Dr Luis SAMBO has commended the commitment of governments, development partners and other health stakeholders in the ongoing efforts to prevent and control meningitis in the Men

Two months after Maripaz Callejas’ husband died of AIDS, she was diagnosed with HIV. One doctor told her that she would be dead within five years.

The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Gomes Sambo, yesterday began a two-day official visit to Libreville, Republic of Gabon. The climax of the visit is an audience he has had this morning with the Head of State, the President of Gabon, Mr Ali Bongo Ondimba.

The two dignitaries discussed four main issues, namely Gabon’s support to WHO, implementation of Gabon’s national health policy, the ongoing health system reform, and the meeting on the « one-health initiative », being held in Libreville from 12 to 14 November 2012. 

Libreville, 12 November 2012 -- A meeting on the “One health” approach in the WHO African Region started on 12 November 2012 at the Okoume Palace Hotel in Libreville, Gabon.

The meeting is being attended by senior policy makers from ministries of Health, Environment, Livestock, Wildlife and Agriculture. Also in attendance are researchers, scholars, experts, representatives of International NGO and partners of WHO such as FAO, USAID, CDC, OIE, OHCEA, and AU-IBAR.