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| March 25, 2006 On the Brink: Guinea Worm - A Long Crusade - Dose of Tenacity Wears Down a Horrific Disease OGI, Nigeria — Whatever secrets the turgid brown depths of the Sacred Pond of Ogi may keep, there is one they betray quite easily: why it is so infuriatingly hard to wipe even one disease off the face of the earth. Ogi is one of the last areas of Nigeria infested with Guinea worm, a plague so ancient that it is found in Egyptian mummies and is thought to be the "fiery serpent" described in the Old Testament as torturing the Israelites in the desert. #http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/international/africa/26worm.html# |
| August 3, 2005 Perspective: Why Africa cannot trade itself out of poverty One of the favorite mantras of the neo-cons around the world is "Trade not aid for Africa". They want Africans themselves to trade their way out of poverty, instead of relying on Western aid. How can a continent whose share of the world trade fell from 6% in 1980 to around 2% by 2002 realistically trade itself out of poverty? #http://unspun.mithuro.com/content/view/334/53/# |
| July 5, 2005 WHO makes progress in leprosy control, but challenges remain Brazzaville, 30 June 2005 -- The World Health Organization (WHO), working with partners and governments of endemic countries, has recorded appreciable progress in combating leprosy in the African Region. However, more efforts should be made in order to eliminate the disease as a public health problem worldwide. #http://www.afro.who.int# |
| July 4, 2005 A waste of time NIGERIAN MUSICIAN Femi Kuti has poured cold water on a benefit concert for Africa to be held in London this week, calling it "a waste of time." #http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/current/Features/Magazine2.html# |
| June 27, 2005 Dangerous Pity The millions donated to Ethiopia in 1985 thanks to Live Aid were supposed to go towards relieving a natural disaster. In reality, donors became participants in a civil war. Many lives were saved, but even more may have been lost in Live Aid's unwitting support of a Stalinist-style resettlement project #http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=6937&AuthKey=207f99c7656bd085380fab04742ab1a7&issue=507# |
| June 2, 2005 WHO urges African governments to ratify, implement Tobacco Convention Brazzaville, 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 restrictions on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. |
| June 2, 2005 Africa responds to close down polio epidemic DAKAR/NAIROBI/HARARE, 13 May 2005 – Africa is responding aggressively to close down a polio epidemic that has spread the virus as far as Indonesia in recent weeks. |
| March 22, 2005 WHO to pursue decentralization of operations in Africa Brazzaville, 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 for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, has said. #http://www.afro.who.int# |
| March 22, 2005 WHO pledges accelerated action to reduce Africa's disease burden Brazzaville, 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 Development Goals (MDGs). #http://www.afro.who.int# |
| November 17, 2004 Expanding antiretroviral therapy in Malawi: drawing on the country's experience with tuberculosis The DOTS ("directly observed treatment, short course") strategy has been successfully used in developing countries to provide effective control of tuberculosis. Field workers in Malawi are promoting the same approach for HIV infection through the expansion of highly active antiretroviral therapy #http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/329/7475/1163# |
| November 17, 2004 BMJ on ARV rollout, Malawi experience - Highly active antiretroviral therapy We need to scale up its use and reach with existing facilities in poor countries. The barriers to providing highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in poor countries have until recently seemed insurmountable. |
| October 30, 2004 BENIN REPUBLIC DECORATES DR SAMBA Brazzaville, 20 October 2004 -- The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Ebrahim M. Samba, has been decorated with one of Benin Republic's highest national merit awards for his contribution to health development in Africa. http://www.afro.who.int/ |
| September 2, 2004 Health update for Darfur, Sudan and Chad The main health concerns facing displaced people in Darfur and their host communities include: malnutrition, acute respiratory infections, diarrhoeal diseases, malaria, hepatitis E and conflict-related trauma. #http://www.who.int/en/# |
| September 2, 2004 Dr Luis Sambo nominated as WHO Regional Director for Africa 2 SEPTEMBER 2004 | BRAZZAVILLE -- Dr Luis Gomes Sambo was today nominated by the WHO Regional Committee for Africa for the post of WHO Regional Director for Africa. #http://www.afro.who.int/# |
| August 24, 2004 STATEMENT BY WHO REGIONAL DIRECTOR FOR AFRICA, DR EBRAHIM SAMBA,
ON THE EDITORIAL IN THE 7 AUGUST 2004 ISSUE OF THE LANCET An editorial in the August 7 issue of The Lancet painted a bleak picture of the work of WHO in the African Region, giving the impression that WHO is not recording any successes there. In fact, despite the challenges of poverty and ongoing instability, the opposite is true. #http://afro.who.int/# |
| July 3, 2004 Effectiveness and safety of a generic fixed-dose combination of nevirapine, stavudine, and lamivudine in HIV-1-infected adults in Cameroon: open-label multicentre trial Generic fixed-dose combinations have been prequalified by WHO to treat HIV-infected patients in resource-limited countries. Despite their widespread use they are, however, not yet recommended by some of the major donor agencies owing to scarcity of clinical data on effectiveness, safety, and quality. #http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol364/iss9428/full/llan.364.9428.primary_research.30146.1# |
| July 3, 2004 An advance for HIV/AIDS treatment access in the developing countries Combination therapy with three generic antiretroviral drugs in a single tablet has been validated for the first time in an open clinical study in a developing country |
| July 3, 2004 Medicines out of Control? Antidepressants and the Conspiracy of Goodwill Medicines out of Control? Antidepressants and the Conspiracy of Goodwill is beautifully written, painstakingly researched, thoroughly referenced, powerfully and persuasively argued, and eerily up to date. |
| July 3, 2004 Treatment of leprosy: The evidence base for newer drug combinations and shorter regimens is weak Leprosy still poses major therapeutic challenges. We have effective antibiotics to cure the infection, but the immune mediated peripheral nerve damage can continue long after effective antimicrobial treatment has started, and patients continue to be stigmatised. |
| July 3, 2004 "Vitamins, Exercise May Help Metabolic Disorders" F. Patrick Robinson, PhD, RN, ACRN, a biobehavioral research fellow at the University of Illinois-Chicago, spoke about HIV- related metabolic abnormalities and exercise at the 2003 Association of Nurses in AIDS Care conference held in New York City last November. "There's a decade of research that shows that aerobics and weight lifting can reverse metabolic complications," he said. |
| July 3, 2004 Is GSK guilty of fraud? Whether paroxetine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor made by GlaxoSmithKline, should be prescribed to depressed children and adolescents has been the subject of recent clinical controversy (see Lancet 2004; 363: 1335). #http://www.thelancet.com/journal/journal.isa# |
| July 3, 2004 Generic antiretroviral drugs--will they be the answer to HIV in the developing world? The use of HAART has led to cost-effective public-health programmes in countries such as Brazil, because there are now fewer episodes of illness and hospital admission #http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol364/iss9428/full/llan.364.9428.analysis_and_interpretation.30169.1# |
| June 14, 2004 Guns but no bread - how arms exporters are failing developing countries It is a commonly held belief that developing countries rely primarily on small arms – which, being relatively cheap, should not be a huge financial burden to the country. But in fact, the countries of Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East own 51% of the world’s heavy weapons and in 2002 they imported two thirds of all arms deliveries worldwide, at a value of nearly US$17 billion. #http://www.sipri.se/# |
| May 9, 2004 Made in India, the Ideal `Cocktail' for AIDS A three-year study of AIDS drugs has identified what the research leaders believe is the ideal triple-therapy cocktail for new patients. The successful cocktail, known colloquially as "two nukes plus a non-nuke," is the same one that the World Health Organization has been recommending in poor countries since 2002. |
| April 9, 2004 Battling the bugs – cutting death rates among HIV-positive TB patients What is the best way to reduce the death rate among HIV-positive people receiving treatment for tuberculosis (TB)? Based on results from Côte d’Ivoire, WHO/UNAIDS recommend the antibiotic, co-trimoxazole, for all African patients with AIDS. But will this work in Malawi, which has different patterns of resistance to this class of drugs? |
| April 9, 2004 Combining drugs for intestinal infections in Zanzibar - Are two better than one? How can we combat the intestinal infections caused by roundworms (nematodes), Ascaris, whipworms and hookworms in children and women of childbearing age? |
| April 9, 2004 Pass or fail – ensuring successful transfer of health policy between countrie How do health policies spread from one country to the next? Transfer without ownership may make implementation difficult. Researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine look at the development of international policy on tuberculosis (TB) control over the last two decades. |
| April 9, 2004 How many tests are enough? Testing for tuberculosis in Ethiopia Ethiopia has the ninth highest tuberculosis (TB) burden in the world. Given the country’s limited resources, decision-makers need to optimise case detection without overloading the health system. Patients currently have to produce three sputum specimens for testing. Are the second and third sputum tests really necessary? |
| April 9, 2004 Education and health care quality affect pregnancy outcomes in Malawi Of 585 000 maternal deaths worldwide each year, 99% are in developing countries. What factors underlie this striking imbalance? Research involving the Malawi College of Medicine and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine studied this issue in a rural community in southern Malawi |
| April 9, 2004 Runaway strains – rotavirus diversity threatens vaccine success in Ghana Diarrhoea kills around three million children each year. One in five of these deaths is due to rotavirus infection. The many different strains of rotavirus complicate the development of a vaccine. Scientists from the Navrongo Rotavirus Research Group studied rotavirus infection in Ghana and the scope for using a vaccine there. |
| April 9, 2004 Parental influence on teenagers’ sexual health in the slums of Nairobi n Kenya, reproductive health problems among adolescents derive from practicing early and unsafe sex. The absence or presence of parents can affect the ability of adolescents to protect their sexual health. Research suggests that, in particular, the presence of a father in the home can strongly influence an adolescent's sexual well-being. |
| April 9, 2004 How healthy are African school children? More attention needs to be paid to the health of school-age children in sub-Saharan Africa, and their sense of well-being. The use of questionnaires in schools can help teachers and health care workers identify and assess common health problems. |
| April 9, 2004 Tuberculosis control needs strong national health services The number of tuberculosis cases continues to rise worldwide and only a minority of people has access to high quality tuberculosis services. Researchers from Belgium’s Institute of Tropical Medicine argue that tuberculosis control cannot reach its targets without investing in an adequate network of accessible, effective and comprehensive health services. |
| March 30, 2004 UN HEALTH AGENCY SEEKS TO COMBAT DANGEROUS MISUSE AND OVERUSE OF MEDICINES With misuse and overuse accounting for almost half the total global use of medicines with potential severe consequences such as drug resistance and even death, the United Nations health agency today called for multilateral partnerships to set up advocacy and education programmes especially in developing countries. |
| March 18, 2004 Flagging global sanitation target threatens other Millennium Development Goals The global target of halving the proportion of people without access to basic sanitation by 2015 is currently out of reach for many countries, said Børge Brende, Chair of the 12th Session of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development (UNCSD), in a special interview with the Bulletin. Water, Sanitation and Health web site |
| March 17, 2004 Delivering on universal treatment access through Health Systems in Southern Africa The following highlights some of the points made in a presentation made by Dr Rene Loewenson of TARSC Zimbabwe and Regional Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa (EQUINET) at the PATAM conference www.equinetafrica.org |
| February 29, 2004 AFRICA'S NEONATAL MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY RATES ARE AMONG THE HIGHEST IN THE WORLD - WHO STUDY Neonatal morbidity and mortality rates in the African Region, currently estimated at 45 deaths per 1,000 live births, are among the highest in the world, and contribute about 50% of the infant mortality rate in the Region, according to a WHO-sponsored study made available at a regional workshop on improving maternal and neonatal health in Harare, Zimbabwe. |
| February 29, 2004 COUNTRIES URGED TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO EMERGENCY OBSTETRIC CARE African governments should ensure improved access to emergency obstetric care (EOC) as this is key to reducing maternal and neonatal mortality in order to reduce the high maternal and neonatal mortality rate in the Region, a Reproductive Health expert said in Harare on Monday. |
| February 29, 2004 Meeting develops roadmap to reduce maternal and newborn deaths in Africa Experts from various international agencies and Non Governmental Organizations attending a meeting on maternal and neonatal death reduction in Harare ended their deliberations on Wednesday with the development of a road map aimed at accelerating progress to reduce maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality in the African Region. |
| February 14, 2004 WHO, AMREF, AFRICARE, MEDILINKS PLAN FOR AFRICA HEALTH DAY In observance of Africa Health Day, the World Health Organization (WHO), in partnership with the African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF)1, Africare2and Medilinks3, is organizing an exhibition and a panel discussion on 19 February 2004 in New York highlighting health and development issues in Africa. WHO/AFRO |
| February 14, 2004 MEETING TO DISCUSS NATIONAL PROFILES ON STATUS
OF CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH A technical consultation to review the national profiles on the status of children's environmental health in six African countries is to take place from 4 to 6 February in Cape Town, South Africa, hosted on behalf of the WHO Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) by the Medical Research Council of South Africa. WHO/AFRO |
| February 14, 2004 WHO reiterates need to eliminate Female Genital Mutilation The World Health Organization has re-iterated its call to Member States in the African Region to eliminate Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), often referred to as female circumcision." WHO/AFRO |
| February 14, 2004 Polio eradication: now more than ever, stop polio forever In 2004, the world has its best – and perhaps last – chance to stop polio forever. There is a historic, one-time only opportunity to stop transmission of poliovirus. If the world seizes this opportunity and acts immediately, no child will ever again know the crippling effects of this devastating disease. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative |
| February 12, 2004 WHO announces the membership of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health The Director-General of WHO, Dr LEE Jong-wook, today announced the members of the Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation and Public Health (CIPIH). The Commission has been established as a result of a resolution at the 2003 World Health Assembly (WHA56.27). Terms of reference for review group [pdf 49kb] |
| February 12, 2004 Medicinal plants – guidelines to promote patient safety and plant conservation for a US$ 60 billion industry The World Health Organization (WHO) today releases guidelines for good agricultural and collection practices for medicinal plants - an industry estimated worth more than US$ 60 billion. The guidelines are intended for national governments to ensure production of herbal medicines is of good quality, safe, sustainable and poses no threat to either people or the environment. Guidelines |
| February 9, 2004 Jimmy Carter calls for urgency in the fight to eradicate guinea- worm disease in West Africa Today, 650 kilometres north of Ghana’s capital city, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and senior officials from The Carter Center, the World Health Organization, and UNICEF made a historic visit to the endemic guinea-worm village of Dashie to urge Ghana to finish the eradication of guinea-worm disease. Jimmy Carter calls for urgency in the fight to eradicate guinea- worm disease in West Africa |
| February 9, 2004 Into Africa Can founding a medical journal improve the health of a country? James K. Tumwine believes it can help, and he has set out to prove it. Africa, he told Curtis Abraham, needs to be self- reliant in medical research. He recalls how one of his papers was rejected when he submitted it from Zimbabwe, but published when he sent it to the same journal from Oxford New Scientist -Into Africa |
| February 5, 2004 HIV/AIDS and hunger When HIV/AIDS first began its unrelenting spread through the poor countries of the world, we in the World Food Programme (WFP), like many in the humanitariancommunity, tended to view the phenomenon as a medical crisis that had little to do with hunger and food aid. velopment Gateway |
| January 29, 2004 How a Goat Led a Girl Up the Path to an Education A goat is responsible for Beatrice Biira's arrival from her home village just south of the Equator in Uganda to this frosty New England town, where even thermal underwear, sturdy duck boots and a puffy parka fail to keep the cold from her bones. NewYork Times |
| December 19, 2003 World Health Report Identifies the Non-Sexual Transmission of HIV Called a Blood Borne Retrovirus The new World Health Report 2003 made public yesterday December 18, indictes a significant shift in policy outlook at the World Health Organisation. |
| November 22, 2003 Pathways through the sustainable livelihoods maze In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the concept of sustainable livelihoods (SL). Has the sustainable livelihoods approach (SLA) to development and poverty reduction managed to address gender, power and markets and to overcome the sectoral divisions which have characterised development work? How can SLA be mainstreamed? Department for International Development, UK |
| November 22, 2003 Food for thought: are West Africa’s family farms worth saving? Is neo-liberalism widening the differences between West African family farmers and agribusiness enterprises? Should regional agricultural policies focus solely on increasing production or should we value agriculture’s role in the management of natural resources and the provision of employment? If so, how can family farmers and their representative organisations be offered greater security of land tenure and a voice in policy-making? Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD) |
| November 22, 2003 Water resources management and access to safe water and basic sanitation Why do over a billion people still lack access to safe water and another 2.4 billion people adequate sanitation? Water resources are becoming increasingly stressed. What are the links between water resources management and economic development and security, and the links between water and sanitation services and health and livelihoods outcomes? Department for International Development (DFID), UK |
| November 22, 2003 Understanding the political economy of violence in Africa s there a risk that established analyses of the causes of conflict in Africa are shaping inappropriate, idealistic or cynical policy responses? Is the currently in-vogue political economy of violence perspective the key to understanding the causes of Africa’s many conflicts? Could ‘track two’ diplomacy contribute to more creative initiatives to terminate conflicts? Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), UK |
| November 22, 2003 Where has all the education gone? Tracing the employment outcomes of African school-leavers and graduates What happens when African students finish their education? Is there an excess supply of educated labour? What do school-leavers and graduates think about the relevance and quality of their education in light of their subsequent experiences of employment? Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK |
| November 22, 2003 Does investing in education reduce poverty? Evidence from Ghana, Uganda and South Africa Three broad facts about education have emerged from recent research. Firstly, almost universally education is found to lift people out of poverty. Secondly, when a comparison is made between investing in education and other forms of investment, the returns from investing in education are on average lower. Thirdly, the returns to education – in the sense of the increment in income that accrues to each year of education – are much higher for those with higher levels of education. What factors influence these trends? Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), UK |
| November 21, 2003 Sticking with tradition: patients with mental disorders seek help from healers Traditional healers are a widely-used source of primary care in most African countries. What is their role in the treatment of common mental disorders (CMD)? Researchers from the UK Institute of Psychiatry investigated the levels of CMDs among people attending primary health clinics and traditional healer centres in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania. #http://www.id21.org/health/h3mn1g1.html# |
| November 4, 2003 AFRICAN COUNTRIES URGED TO RE-POSITION FAMILY PLANNING African countries should re-position family planning as a priority health intervention because of its potential for helping to drastically reduce maternal infant and child deaths. WHO Africa Region |
| November 4, 2003 The price of better health in Iraq: an extra US$ 14 per person per year As the international community gathers to consider the urgent reconstruction needs of Iraq, the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the World Bank will highlight the requirements for better health in Iraq and an effective health system for the Iraqi people. WHO |
| November 4, 2003 Health and Finance Ministers to address need for worldwide increase in health investment Ministers of Health, Finance and Planning from 40 developing countries will come together with development partners at WHO headquarters from 29 to 30 October to address the need to significantly increase investments in health. This is the first time that the World Health Organization (WHO) has hosted a meeting so widely attended by non-health officials, underlining the urgency of building national capacity to absorb increased health funding. Macroeconomics and health |
| November 4, 2003 PARTICIPANTS AT REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH MEETING
CONDEMN FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION Participants in the 2nd African Regional Reproductive Health Task Force meeting which ended Friday in Dakar, Senegal, unanimously condemned female genital mutilation (FGM) and agreed that health workers implicated in the practice should be sanctioned by their professional associations. WHO Africa Region |
| November 4, 2003 2nd WHO AFRICAN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH TASK FORCE MEETING ENDS, ADOPTS RECOMMENDATIONS The second meeting of the WHO African Reproductive Health Task Force ended Friday in Dakar, Senegal, with the adoption of recommendations aimed at scaling up interventions designed to improve reproductive health indicators in the African Region. WHO Africa Region |
| November 4, 2003 Musculoskeletal conditions affect millions Joint diseases, rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, spinal disorders, low back pain, and severe trauma are among 150 musculoskeletal conditions affecting millions of people globally, according to a comprehensive new publication released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Bone and Joint Decade Initiative the Bone and Joint Decade theme issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization |
| October 11, 2003 Africa's visionary editor Professor James Tumwine launched an African medical journal two years ago that is already indexed on Medline AFRONETS |
| September 10, 2003 WHO REGIONAL COMMITTEE ENDS, ADOPTS SIX RESOLUTIONS The 53rd session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa ended Friday in Johannesburg with the adoption of six resolutions, including one endorsing a strategy on women's health which focuses on the health conditions that are exclusive to, or more prevalent in, women. WHO Africa Region |
| September 10, 2003 FOOD-BORNE ILLNESS CONSTITUTES MAJOR PUBLIC HEALTH CHALLENGE Food-borne illness presents a major and continuing challenge to Africa as it adversely affects health, lowers economic productivity, and in several cases results in death and disability. WHO Africa Region |
| September 10, 2003 ROAD ACCIDENTS SOAR IN AFRICA, COST THE REGION $7.3 BILLION Mortality rate from road traffic accident injuries in Africa is the highest in the world, costing the Region $7.3 billion or 1% of its Gross Domestic Product annually, the World Health Organization says in a report released Monday in Johannesburg. WHO Africa Region |
| September 10, 2003 MAN-MADE DISASTERS, NATURAL HAZARDS COST AFRICA $15 BILLION an-made disasters and natural hazards such as armed conflicts, floods, drought, famine, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions cost Africa $15 billion in 2002. WHO Africa Region |
| September 10, 2003 PREVENTIVE MEASURES, RESPONSE MECHANISMS KEEP SARS
AT BAY IN AFRICA Preventive measures and response mechanisms put in place by the World Health Organization (WHO) and its Member States have helped to check the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Africa, says a report released Monday in Johannesburg by the World Health Organization. WHO Africa Region |
| September 10, 2003 WHO CALLS ON AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS TO FORMALLY RECOGNIZE TRADITIONAL MEDICINE The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on African governments to accord formal recognition to traditional medicine, create an enabling environment for its practice, and integrate the time-honoured system of medicine into their national health systems. The call was made by the WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Ebrahim M. Samba, in a message on the occasion of the first African Traditional Medicine Day to be observed Region-wide on 31 August. WHO Africa Region |
| September 10, 2003 HEALTH IN AFRICA IN 2002 - A BALANCE SHEET The World Health Organization (WHO) and its Member States in the African Region have made definite progress towards polio eradication, with the Region attaining certification level surveillance for the first time in 2002, and the number of polio-endemic countries reduced by 67%, from six in 2001 to two in 2002, WHO says in a report released on Monday. WHO Africa Region |
| September 2, 2003 TOWARDS BETTER HOSPITAL SERVICES IN AFRICA African governments have been urged to increase funding for their health sectors, allocate more funds to hospitals, desist from embarking on 'prestigious' health projects, and focus more on the viability, usefulness, equity and sustainability of health investments. WHO Africa Region |
| August 19, 2003 53RD SESSION OF WHO REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR AFRICA
TO TAKE PLACE FROM 1-5 SEPTEMBER IN JOHANNESBURG The 53rd session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa (RC53) is scheduled to take place from 1 to 5 September at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. WHO Africa Region |