Libreville, 17 March 2006 -- The capital of Gabon is hosting, from 20-22 March 2006, a major meeting on the avian influenza situation in Africa. The meeting is being jointly organized by the Government of Gabon and …
Read moreBrazzaville, 08 March 2006 -- The continental consultation on Scaling Up Towards Universal Access to HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support in Africa ended Wednesday in the Congolese capital with the a…
Read moreOver 200 high level participants from 53 African countries meet in Brazzaville to discuss comprehensive scaling up of HIV prevention, treatment, care and support Brazzaville, 06 March 2006 -- Two hundred and fift…
Read moreBrazzaville, 03 March 2006 -- The 13th meeting of the Task Force on Immunization (TFI) in Africa ended on Thursday March 3, 2006 in Brazzaville, Congo with the adoption of 17 recommendations intended to reinforce Ro…
Read moreBrazzaville, 28 February 2006 -- The 13th meeting of the Task Force on Immunization (TFI) in Africa and the 12th meeting of the African Regional Inter-Agency Coordination Committee (ARICC) will take place from 28 Fe…
Read moreAbuja, 13 February 2006 -- A team of World Health Organization (WHO) experts led by the Agency’s Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, arrived Nigeria Sunday to support the country’s efforts to contain an outbreak of …
Read moreAbuja, 13 February 2006 -- Nigeria’s Health Minister, Prof. Eyitayo Lambo, has urged Nigerians not to panic and assured that the government was taking measures to ensure that there was no human infection of the bird…
Read more9 February 2006-- The confirmation of H5N1 avian influenza in poultry in Africa is a cause for great concern and demands immediate action. This is the first reported incidence of this highly pathogenic virus on the conti…
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