Nairobi, 30 October 2009 -- Delegates at the 7th Global Health Conference on Health Promotion which ended on Friday 30th October in Nairobi, Kenya have called on governments, civil society, development organizations…
Read moreNairobi, 28 October 2009 -- Delegates at the 7th Global Conference on Health Promotion have called for strengthening community empowerment as an essential component of Health Promotion. This is part of the outcom…
Read moreNairobi, 26 October 2009 -- The 7th Global Conference on Health Promotion, openedi on Monday 26 October 2009 at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre in Nairobi. His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya …
Read moreSierra Leone's district health information system (DHIS) captures data from hundreds of community health centres across the country. The system, developed with the support of the Health Metrics Network, is designed to br…
Read moreKigali, 1 September 2009 -- WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, has warned of widespread development of drug resistance related to HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and proposed concrete measures to address…
Read moreKigali, 4 September 2009 -- The fifty-ninth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa ended on Friday in Kigali, Rwanda, after nominating a Regional Director and adopting resolutions aimed at scaling up actio…
Read moreKigali, 2 September 2009 -- Countries in the WHO African Region have made modest but steady progress in accelerating HIV prevention following their adoption, in 2006, of the Regional strategy for accelerating HIV pr…
Read moreKigali, 2 September 2009 -- The World Health Organization has proposed measures for strengthening the capacity of Member States in the African Region for outbreak preparedness and response in the context of the curr…
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