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The Director General of WAHO at the official graduation ceremony of the first batch of students for Masters in Public health at Joseph Ki Zerbo University, Ouagadougou

Date: 2017-07-22 08:36:03 ID: 1676 In Ouagadougou to attend the high-level meeting on adequate and sustainable financing for health, demographic dividend, population and development policies in the ECOWAS region, in Mauritania and Chad, the Director General of WAHO participated in the official graduation ceremony of the first batch of students for Masters in public health at the Joseph Ki Zerbo...

Preparation and response to epidemics in West Africa: WAHO presents reagents and laboratory consumables to Burkina Faso

Date: 2017-07-22 08:16:42 ID: 1675 Worth 36 million CFA francs , WAHO’s donation to the Ministry of health Burkina Faso aims at supporting the implementation of its response plan to possible epidemics. In December 2010, Burkina Faso undertook a preventive mass immunisation campaign against meningococcus A meningitis. Since then, the number of cases of meningitis has considerably reduced from 6,837cases...

Muhammadu Buhari takes over from Faure Gnassingbe as the Chairman of the Conference of Heads of State of ECOWAS

Muhammadu Buhari takes over from Faure Gnassingbe as the Chairman of the Conference of Heads of State of ECOWAS Le président nigérian, Muhammadu Buhari, a été élu par ses pairs ouest-africains pour présider, pour un an, aux destinées de la Conférence des chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement de la Communauté économique des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (Cedeao), en remplacement...
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