Since 2005, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has been financing the master's program in health and population at the Institut supérieure des sciences de la population (ISSP), Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Human resources are essential to attaining the objectives of the Millennium development goals with respect to national health systems.
The looming tobacco epidemic and its potential for thwarting the development process has prompted most governments in sub-Saharan Africa to ratify the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC).
Research results have no value unless they are made available for due consideration by practitioners and policymakers. Scientific articles are not enough.
In November 2001, IDRC supported the establishment of a research network on the theme of equal access to health services in West Africa under project 101160.