| Dr Sambo Urges Urgent Action to Boost Research for Better Health Outcomes |
Bamako, 19 November 2008 -- WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, says countries should take urgent action to boost research for heath in order to bring about better health outcomes for their people. ”
We must take urgent action to give research and innovation their rightful place if we are to overcome the great health challenges of our times, notably the challenges related to improvements sent out in the Millennium Development Goals”, Dr Sambo said on Wednesday at end of the Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health which took place in Bamako, Mali. read more
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| Malian President Opens Global Ministerial Forum, Calls for More Investment in Research |
Bamako, 17 November 2008 -- Malian President Amadou Toumani Toure says Africa should invest in scientific research and technological innovation as experience in both developed and developing countries shows that this is key to ensuring the health, political and economic future of people.
Africa needs ”a culture of research for health … and should be committed to the processes of science and technology”, President Toure said as he opened the Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health which began on Monday in Bamako, the Malian capital. read more
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| WHO Calls on Govts to Prioritize Research for Health |
 Bamako, 17 November 2008 -- The World Health Organization has called on governments to prioritize health research and echoed a proposal by the Commission on Social Determinants of Health for the inclusion of health in the policies of all government ministries and departments.
The call was made by WHO Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan, in a statement to the Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health Research which opened on Monday in Bamako, Mali. read more |
| Impact of the global financial and economic crisis on health |
 Geneva, 12 November 2008 -- We face a severe financial crisis of unprecedented dimensions in a world that has never before been so closely connected and interdependent. The consequences are global. The situation is volatile. The current financial crisis is rapidly becoming an economic crisis and threatens to become a social crisis in many countries.
The crisis comes at a time when commitment to global health has never been higher. It comes in the midst of the most ambitious drive in history to reduce poverty and distribute the benefits of our modern society, including those related to health, more evenly and fairly in this world - the Millennium Development Goals. read more
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| WHO Regional Director for Africa Hands Over a Maternity Clinic to the Integrated Health Centre of Madibou, Brazzaville |
 Brazzaville, 6 November 2008 -- The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis Gomes Sambo, currently on official duty tour in the Republic of Congo has, today, handed over a maternity clinic to the integrated heath centre (IHC) of Madibou situated in the southern outskirts of Brazzaville.
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