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• Regional Director visits Albania
  14-05-2012
  Zsuzsanna Jakab, WHO Regional Director for Europe, met with Sali Berisha, Prime Minister of Albania, and Petrit Vasili, Minister of Health, during an official visit to the country on 10–11 May 2012.
• Health workers: on the front line for vaccination
  23-04-2012
  Health professionals are the most important source of information for people making decisions about their and their families’ health. European Immunization Week (21–27 April 2012) focuses on the vital role of front-line health workers on the success of national immunization programmes. Read more ...
• Princess Mathilde of Belgium arrives in Albania to advocate for frontline health care workers
  29-03-2012
  Princess Mathilde of Belgium began her official visit yesterday as WHO’s Special Representative for Immunization. She will meet frontline health care workers from Albania and Montenegro and discuss their vital role in ensuring the success of national immunization programmes.
• Princess Mathilde of Belgium to visit Albania as WHO special representative: focus on frontline health workers and immunization
  21-03-2012
  The Belgian Court and WHO/Europe today announced that Her Royal Highness Princess Mathilde, WHO’s Special Representative for Immunization, will visit Albania from 28 to 30 March 2012 to meet with and advocate for frontline health care workers.
• WHO/Europe strengthens national capacity in emergency preparedness
  05-03-2012
  Participants from eight countries in the WHO European Region took part in a workshop to train trainers to establish and develop national programmes to build capacity for risk reduction and the management of public health emergencies.
• Albania Success stories in improving mother and child health
  03-01-2012
• Albania launches strategy to halve road traffic deaths by 2020
  13-12-2011
  In the WHO European Region, road traffic injuries are responsible for 120,000 deaths each year, 2.4 million injuries and are the leading killer in young people aged 5-29 years. In Albania, like in other European countries, road traffic deaths follow an increasing trend. The United Nations General Assembly called for an international Decade of Action for Road Safety to respond to this global growing epidemic. The launch of the Decade of Action in Albania was organized by the WHO Country Office in Tirana on 22 November 2011, opened by the Minister of Health, Dr Petrit Vasili and chaired by the Director General of the Ministry of Health, Dr Pelumb Pipero. 
• Mental Health Day in Albania
  21-10-2011
  On the occasion of World Mental Health Day 2011, the WHO Country Office, Albania, supported several awareness events in different regions of the country.
• Strengthening capacity in Balkan countries to improve engagement in Codex Alimentarius activities. Durres, Albania, 6-8 September 2011
  02-09-2011
  Food safety officials from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia will be trained by WHO and FAO experts to stimulate a more effective participation in the Codex process by Balkan countries, who joined the Codex in recent years. The course will provide an in-depth knowledge of Codex and of how countries participate and can influence its work. The training will also focus on the use of Codex Alimentarius standards, guidelines and recommendations on food safety standards. Related issues, such as coordinating Codex work at the national level and linking it to other food safety country activities, will also be discussed.
• Strengthening community involvement in maternal, neonatal and child health in Albania
  10-03-2011
• Investigating knowledge, attitudes and practices gaps in primary health care on malnutrition and anaemia
  01-10-2010
  Joint Nutrition Programme survey to help to inform stakeholders on the best ways to train, educate, and support primary health care providers to overcome barriers in preventing, diagnosing, and treating anaemia and poor infant feeding practices of patients.
• Achieving Millennium Development Goals on improving child and maternal health and gender equality
  30-09-2010
  Government officials, UN agencies and other partners from more that 25 countries met in Durres, Albania 28–30 September 2010 to review the progress in achieving MDGs 3, 4 and 5 in the WHO European Region.
• Ensuring access to medicines: medicines policies in Albania, 30-31 August 2010
  27-09-2010
  A workshop called “Ensuring access to medicines : medicines policies in Albania’ was held in Tirana on 30-31 August 2010.
• Workshop on reorganization of school health services, 28 June-2 July 2010
  03-07-2010
  The Ministry of Health Albania hosted a two day workshop on monitoring and evaluating school health services
• Strategic workshop on developing an action plan for breast and cervical cancer, Tirana, 29-30 June 2010
  30-06-2010
  A policy dialogue was held from 29-30 June 2010 to discuss cervical and breast cancer screening programs.
• Working with Individuals, families and communities workshop, 9-10 June 2010
  11-06-2010
  The WHO country office, Albania hosted a two day orientation and planning workshop entitled “Working with individuals, families and communities to improve maternal, newborn and child health”.
• Inauguration of air quality monitoring stations
  25-05-2010
  In the framework of a two year project “Protecting health from Climate Change in Albania”, two modern air quality monitoring stations were established in Tirana.
• PATH, 23–24 March 2010
  20-04-2010
  Performance Assessment Tool for Quality Improvements in Hospitals (PATH)
• World Health Day 2010 (7–9 April 2010)
  07-04-2010
  The activities for the World Health Day were carried out on 7–9 of April 2010 with the campaign “ 1000 cities – 1000 lives” with focus on urbanization and health.