Prime Minister Meles Zenawi opens WHO meeting, proposes measures to tackle health worker shortage in Africa Addis Ababa, 28 August 2006 -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has described the shortage and high…
Read moreAddis Ababa, 22 August 2006-- The fifty-sixth session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa will be held from 28 August to 1 September in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Regional Committee is…
Read moreLuanda, 5 August 2006 -- The WHO Goodwill Ambassador for the Leprosy Elimination, Mr. Yohei Sasakawa, has promised to support the current efforts to fight the disease in Africa, and invited the countries of the regi…
Read moreWashington, 12 July 2006 -- The government of Angola, and its partners in the Measles Initiative, the Global Fund on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative are launching a major …
Read moreWashington, 8 July 2006 -- The government of Kenya has launched a two-phase integrated measles vaccination campaign, targeting more than five million children between nine months and five years of age. In addition t…
Read moreAfrica achieves full coverage for training of health cadres in Noncommunicable Disease risk factor surveillance Brazzaville, 5 July 2006 -- With the completion in June of the training of health personnel from a g…
Read moreBrazzaville, 28 June 2006 -- Fifteen epidemiologists, clinicians and laboratory experts from four Central African countries are participating in a train–the–trainers induction workshop for avian influenza preparedne…
Read morePort Louis (Mauritius), 20 June 2006 -- A seminar to strengthen national capacity for health promotion in Madagascar, the Comoros, Seychelles and Mauritius got underway in the Mauritian capital Tuesday with a call o…
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