Brazzaville, 12 November 2012 -- A meeting on "One Health" gets underway today (Monday, 12 November) in Libreville, Gabon, to discuss ways of further strengthening the prevention and response to threats …
Read moreMonrovia’s Star of the Sea Health Centre is the first health facility in Liberia to offer women psychosocial and legal support alongside health services. In any one day, the Centre’s 40 staff can expect to see 100 wom…
Read moreBrazzaville, 25 October 2012 -- As the Sahel food crisis persists, compounded by recent flooding in the region, the World Health Organization (WHO) has appealed to health and development partners to support affected…
Read moreBrazzaville, 19 October 2012 -- When the tell-tale signs of an emerging epidemic in Uganda were first confirmed on 28 July 2012, the country’s health authorities, working with World Health Organization (…
Read moreThe second session of the WHO AFRO Programme Subcommittee has concluded today in Luanda, Angola. The two-day meeting was attended by Dr José Van Dúnem, the Angolan minister of Health, Dr. Patrick Chikusu, the Deputy Mini…
Read moreCape Verde and Mauritius are two of four countries (the others are Sri Lanka and Turkmenistan) documented in a new series of case studies on malaria elimination by The Global Health Group at the University of California,…
Read moreDr Sambo calls for concrete actions to reduce maternal, infant and child deaths The World Health Organization Regional Director for Africa Dr Luis Sambo has stressed that with less than three (3) years to 2015 – the t…
Read moreAmbrose Ganshanga, a 29-year-old occupational therapist in western Uganda, works with children with spina bifida. Spina bifida is a congenital anomaly (commonly referred to as a birth defect) in which the spinal column d…
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