On a hot afternoon in November 2014, Benin’s Minister of Health, Dr Dorothée Kinde Gazard and WHO Country Representative Dr Youssouf Gamatié visited the Hôpital de Saint Jean de Dieu in Tanguiéta, in the country’s northw…
Read more25 March 2015 -- While there have been slight improvements in the security situation in parts of the Central African Republic in recent months, the country is still in the grips of a major health crisis, following y…
Read moreEach year on 24 March, WHO joins the rest of the international community to commemorate World TB Day. This year’s theme “Gear Up to End TB” is a continuation of the call to reach the missing cases, most of who live in th…
Read moreBrazzaville, 18 March 2015 - Dr Marie Francke Puruehnce, the Presidential Adviser for Health in Congo has today paid a courtesy call on Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization’s Regional Director for Africa at…
Read moreThe World Health Organization (WHO) commemorates World Salt Awareness Week from 16 to 22 March, 2015 under the theme ‘less salt please’. This year’s theme highlights the importance of eating out healthy. Most peo…
Read more11 March 2015 ¦ GENEVA - WHO and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are combining their forces in a new partnership in the Ebola-affected countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The arrangement com…
Read moreBrazzaville, 6 March 2015 – In efforts to prevent vaccine preventable diseases, health experts concluded a four-day meeting from 2 to 5 March that aimed to ensure that every child in the African Region has access to…
Read moreGeneva, 5 March 2015 -- Based on promising data from initial clinical trials in late 2014, WHO with the Health Ministry of Guinea, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Epicentre and The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (N…
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