Brazzaville, 21 July 2015 - A high level delegation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has begun a four-day official visit to the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) in Brazz…
Read moreLuanda, 17 July 2015 – The hepatitis B virus vaccine has been introduced into the Expanded Programme of Immunization (EPI) of Angola on 14th July 2015 as part of the joint efforts developed by the Government a…
Read moreBrazzaville, 16 July 2015 – A high level delegation from Merck, a drug pharmaceutical company donating Praziquantel (PZQ) tablets for schistosomiasis control and elimination, has today paid a courtesy call to the Wo…
Read moreCape Town, 13 July 2015 – The World Health Organization (WHO) has brought together 200 high-level experts from governments, development agencies, civil society and international organizations to make the world a saf…
Read moreRecovery in West Africa needs more urgency as the region’s battered systems have limited capacity to reactivate essential health services | NEW YORK/GENEVA/BRAZZAVILLE (06 July, 2015) — In the lead-up to a m…
Read moreBrazzaville, 30 June 2015 – High ranking officials from the African Union Commission (AUC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) are meeting in Brazzaville to take stock of their collaborative efforts to improve t…
Read moreMauritius 26 June 2015 – The fifth meeting of Ministers of Health of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the WHO African Region ended with delegates agreeing on a range of concrete actions to tackle their commo…
Read moreMauritius, 24 June 2015 – Health Ministers from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the African Region have begun a meeting today in Mauritius to take stock of the health of their people and chart a way forward…
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