The Director-General of WHO, Dr Margaret Chan, arrived today in Angola’s capital Luanda for a two-day visit to assess the situation of the current outbreak of yellow fever virus. Since December 2015, Angola has been g…
Read moreLuanda, 2 April 2016 - The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr Margaret Chan, and the Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, will be in Luanda, from 2 to 5 April 2016, for a working vi…
Read moreBrazzaville, Congo, 5-7 April, 2016 Creating a New vision and Blueprint for a strengthened AVAREF Heads of National Regulatory Authorities and National Ethics Committees/Research Policy Departments and other …
Read more2016 marks the beginning of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) era. Ethiopia is making progress in tackling tuberculosis (TB), the leading infectious disease killer along with HIV. It is committed to reaching the SD…
Read moreGuinea, (Nzérékoré), 18 March 2016 - Two cases of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) out of four suspected cases admitted at the Nzérékoré Ebola Treatment Centre have just been confirmed. All the cases are from the same famil…
Read moreBrazzaville, 18 March 2016 - The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti will begin a 4 day official visit to China from 22 to 25 March 2016 at the invitation of the Chinese government. The visit is ai…
Read moreAbidjan, 3 March 2016 - The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti concluded a three day official visit to Cote d’Ivoire yesterday. The visit began on Monday 29 February and was aimed at further stren…
Read moreCape Town, 25 January 2016 – A historic five-day workshop organized jointly by WHO, UNICEF and JSI, MCSP/USAID on Exchange of Best Practices to Reaching Every District/Community (REC), equity and integration of chil…
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