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Lagos, 26 November 2007 -- The 51st National Council on Health (NCH) meeting held in Lagos from 19 – 23 November 2007.

20th November 2007, Lusaka -- The National Mental Health Conference was officially opened yesterday at the Mulungushi International Conference

Abuja, 19 November 2007 -- Over five hundred Nigerians from all walks of life, led by the Minister of Information and Communications, Mr.

Brazzaville, 16 November 2007 -- One hundred twenty national HIV/AIDS Programme Managers in the African Region and WHO technical staff  working in the

Nairobi, 6 November 2007 -- The WHO Representative to Kenya, Dr. David Okello handed over to the new Minister for Health, Hon.

In mid-September 2007, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in some remote communities in the p

Ouagadougou, 9 October 2007 -- The meningitis season from December 2006 to May 2007 saw an estimated 53,000 cases of meningitis, with an estimated 4,000 de

Brazzaville, 8 October 2007 -- WHO, CDC/Atlanta and Research Coordinators of 17 African countries have agreed to accelerate the Global Youth Tobacco Survey