LUANDA, 09 December 2003 -- The 11th meeting of the Task Force on Immunization (TFI) in Africa and the 10th meeting of the Africa Regional Inter-Agency Coordination Committee (ARICC) ended on Friday, December 5, 200…
Read moreLUANDA - African leaders have been called upon to redouble efforts to ensure that polio is eradicated from the continent by the set target of 2005 by the Angolan Prime Minister Fernando da Piedade, at the opening se…
Read moreLuanda -- The 11th Meeting of the Task Force on Immunization (TFI) and the 10th Meeting of the African Regional Inter-Agency coordinating Committee (ARICC) whose thrust is to review recommendations made last year an…
Read moreLuanda, - Task Force on Immunisation Chairman Prof Francis Nkrumah called on African governments to make concerted efforts in political and resources commitment towards immunization to rid the continent of vaccine preven…
Read moreNairobi, 1 December 2003 -- Dr Ebrahim Samba, who retires as World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa after his current tenure expires in 2005, has offered to provide "free, non-remunerative services" to…
Read moreNairobi, 1 December 2003 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Dr Ebrahim M. Samba, has expressed optimism that the "3 by 5" strategy launched on Monday to provide antiretroviral treat…
Read moreNairobi, 1 December 2003 -- Millions of people in Africa and elsewhere around the globe on Monday commemorated World AIDS Day as WHO and UNAIDS unveiled a "3 by 5" strategy aimed at providing antiretroviral treatmen…
Read moreNairobi, 1 December 2003 -- United Nations Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, has called on the international community to scale up action to ensure the defeat of HIV/AIDS epidemic which, he says "continues its letha…
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