Brazzaville, 4 May 2005 -- The second induction workshop for officers recruited to support countries in the WHO's African, Eastern Mediterranean, South East Asian and American Regions to implement the global initiat…
Read moreBrazzaville, 4 May 2005 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, has called on African governments to allocate adequate resources to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malar…
Read moreBrazzaville, 25 April 2005 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Gomes Sambo, has made an impassioned plea to African governments, communities, development partners and other stakeh…
Read more23 countries race to halt the spread of the virus before the high-transmission season starts DAKAR/NAIROBI, 8 April 2005 -- With the polio virus' high-transmission season just months away, African countries are r…
Read moreBrazzaville, 6 April 2005 -- Health is a fundamental human right. Yet, to a large number of women, newborns and children in Africa, this right is denied. Every 60 minutes, 130 newborns die in the African Region. In …
Read moreBrazzaville, 10 March 2005 -- Operations of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the African Region are being rapidly decentralized “so that focus will be on country level activities” WHO Regional Director f…
Read moreBrazzaville, 7 march 2005 -- The Directors of the WHO Regional Office for Africa and the UNICEF Office for West and Central Africa open discussions Tuesday in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, on ways to collaborate i…
Read moreBrazzaville, 28 February 2005 - The World Health Organization (WHO) has pledged accelerated action to help reduce the disease burden in Africa and to assist countries in the region to achieve the Millennium Developm…
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