Brazzaville, 11 August 2016 – As the number of yellow fever cases decline in Angola and Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the World Health Organization calls on Governments and partners to capitalize on the mo…
Read moreBrazzaville, 20 June 2011 -- The WHO Regional Office for Africa releases the Report "HIV in the WHO African Region: 2011 update - progress towards achieving the universal access to priority health sector interv…
Read more31 May to 03 June 2011 -- Dr Luis Gomes Sambo, WHO Regional Director for Africa, concluded an important 2-day official visit to the headquarters of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington. Thr…
Read moreBrazzaville, 30 May 2011 -- WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, has re-iterated his appeal to all Member States in the Region to ratify and implement the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. …
Read more24 May 2011 -- In her closing address Director-General Dr Margaret Chan praised delegates for consensus on issues that profoundly affect public health. Apart from discussions on unprecedented reforms at WHO, Member …
Read moreBrazzaville, 17 May 2011-- As Ministers of Health of the WHO African Region gathered in Brazzaville on 6 April 2011 for their first ever session devoted to discussing how to address the high and growing incidence o…
Read moreBrazzaville, 16 May 2011 -- The sixty-fourth session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) opens on Monday 16 May 2011 in Geneva, Switzerland. WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Gomes Sambo, is already in Gen…
Read more16 May 2011 -- In her opening address to the Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly, Dr Chan reviewed recent challenges and some major successes, including declines in child deaths and in the HIV and TB epidemics, and u…
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