Brazzaville, 7 April 2011 -- The first Africa Regional Ministerial Consultation on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) ended in the Congolese capital on Wednesday (6 April) with the adoption of the Brazzaville Decl…
Read moreBrazzaville, 5 April 2011 -- Health Ministers and Heads of Country delegations currently in Brazzaville for the WHO African Region Ministerial Consultation on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) were briefed on the work…
Read moreBrazzaville, Congo 4 April 2011 -- More than 150 experts on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) began a consultation in Brazzaville, Congo as part of efforts of Member States in the WHO African Region to address the gro…
Read moreTens of thousands of cases prevented, but more needs to be done to secure lasting success Brazzaville/Dakar, 25 March 2011 -- Health experts today confirmed that a devastating polio epidemic in west African count…
Read moreBrazzaville, 24 March 2011 -- WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, has called for innovative actions to prevent and control tuberculosis (TB) which continues to be a public health problem to people in th…
Read moreEntebbe, 22 March 2011 -- A group of patients, family members and advocates from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia, joined health-care workers and policy-makers, in a workshop in Entebbe last week. P…
Read moreAfrica joins global efforts to fight noncommunicable diseases 18 March 2011 -- In an effort to address the growing problem of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), technical experts and Ministers of Health in the Afr…
Read moreBrazzaville, 7 March 2011 -- In the last week of April 2011, the African Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) will observe the first African Vaccination Week (AVW). The establishment of the week is in re…
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