Brazzaville, 8 October 2007 -- WHO, CDC/Atlanta and Research Coordinators of 17 African countries have agreed to accelerate the Global Youth Tobacco Survey to prevent millions of deaths and disabilities due to tobac…
Read moreBrazzaville, 2 October 2007 -- A four-day workshop on the Global Youth Tobacco Survey organized by WHO and CDC/Atlanta opened Tuesday in Brazzaville with a warning by WHO that tobacco use and addiction constit…
Read moreHarare, 25 September 2007 -- The African Region will be the first of WHO’s six regions to take tangible action in integrating oral health into other chronic diseases programmes. This was the key outcome of an exp…
Read moreBrazzaville, 6 September 2007 -- Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights in the WHO African Region was the theme of a consultative meeting that took place in Brazzaville, Congo from 3 to 5 Septemb…
Read moreBrazzaville, 31 August 2007 -- The fifty-seventh session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa ended on Friday in Brazzaville, Congo, with the adoption of a resolution approving orientations for implementing the …
Read moreBrazzaville, 30 August 2007 -- Cancer is emerging as a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa where 582 ,000 new cases of the deadly disease were notified in 2002 , according to WHO Regional Director for Africa…
Read moreBrazzaville, 29 August 2007 -- “The harmful use of alcohol in the African region is rising and the situation will worsen if appropriate action is not taken to address the problem.” This is contained in a report b…
Read moreBrazzaville, 29 August 2007 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed a strategy for the control of the dual tuberculosis (TB) and HIV/AIDS epidemic in the African Region. The strategy, developed by the…
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