WHO and UNAIDS applaud results from the HPTN 052 trial that show antiretroviral therapy to be 96% effective in reducing HIV transmission in couples where one partner has HIV. "This is a crucial development, because we kn…
Read moreAbidjan, 10 May 2011 -- The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, em-barked on an official visit to the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire on Monday 9 May 2011. The aim of the visit was to assess the impact of …
Read moreThe WHO Regional Director for Africa Dr Luis Gomes Sambo has called for urgent action to address the recurrent epidemics in West African countries. He made this call while addressing delegates at the official opening of …
Read moreDecade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 set to save millions of lives 6 May 2011, Geneva -- On 11 May , dozens of countries around the world kick off the first global Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020. Fro…
Read moreBrazzaville, 4 May 2011 -- More than 75 million children, women and men from 22 countries in the WHO African Region were vaccinated in April against polio and many other vaccine-preventable diseases, in the first ev…
Read moreWindhoek, 20 April 2011 -- WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, says that countries in the region are making “significant progress” in the fight against HIV/AIDS but warns that several challenges and bot…
Read moreLife in Côte d'Ivoire is slowly returning to normal after four months of post-electoral violence. The western part of the country was most affected by the months of inter-communal violence that spread to much of the coun…
Read moreNew global and country estimates published in Lancet Series Brazzaville, 14 April 2011 -- Some 2.6 million stillbirths occurred worldwide in 2009, according to the first comprehensive set of estimates published t…
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