Brazzaville, 16 June 2005 -- The WHO Regional Office for Africa plans to designate 2006 as the “Year of Accelerated Prevention of HIV in Africa”. This indication was given by the WHO Regional Director for Africa,…
Read moreBrazzaville, 10 June 2005 -- WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, has appealed to health authorities in the region to promote and intensify the collection of blood from voluntary unpaid blood donors thro…
Read moreBrazzaville, 8 June 2005 -- WHO Director-General Emeritus, Dr Halfdan Mahler, has made an impassioned plea to the international community to stage a “frontal attack on poverty” while at the same time earnestly embra…
Read moreBrazzaville, 8 June 2005 -- A consultative meeting organized to guide WHO’s action in the African Region ended Wednesday in Brazzaville with participants agreeing on the objectives, priorities and strategic orientat…
Read moreBrazzaville, 7 June 2005 -- Former WHO Director-General, Dr Halfdan Mahler, today in Brazzaville joined two former WHO Regional Directors for Africa, Dr Ebrahim Samba and Prof Gottlieb Monekosso, and two former Dire…
Read moreBrazzaville, 6 June 2005 -- An Expert Group on aflatoxins and health recommended at its just-concluded consultation in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, that concrete measures must be taken to control aflatoxins. Afla…
Read moreBrazzaville, 30 May 2005 -- African governments have been urged to ratify and implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), the World Health Organization's first treaty which provides for restriction…
Read moreAs polio reaches as far as Indonesia, over 77 million children to be immunized at heart of outbreak to prevent further spread DAKAR/NAIROBI/HARARE, 13 May 2005 – Africa is responding aggressively to close down a polio…
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