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- Angola Briefing Note - - The main public health threat is epidemics, particularly malaria, diarrhea disease and meningitis; and malnutrition is a long-term consequence of food shortfall.
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- Angola Health Conditions - - Logistical problems with supply and distribution of equipment as well as the lack of physical security impeded the provision of health care throughout the country.
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- Health Precautions - - All visitors over one year of age arriving from infected areas must have a yellow fever vaccination certificate. Hepatitis B, malaria, cholera, trachoma, schistosomiasis, river blindness, and sleeping sickness are all hazards.
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- Outbreak of Poliomyelitis -- Angola, 1999 - - Many case patients resided in overcrowded municipalities where families displaced by civil war had settled. Ministry of Health suspected the outbreak was poliomyelitis and began planning a vaccination campaign to control the epidemic.
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- World Health Organization (WHO): Angola - - An overview of public health issues by the United Nations specialized agency. Topics include disease outbreaks, legislation, statistics and details on related government expenditures.
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- Meningococcal Meningitis in Angola - - Following the information posted on 6 August 1998, the Ministry of Health in Angola has now reported a total of 1113 cases of meningococcal meningitis from the four affected provinces of Bié, Malange, Huambo and Lunda Norte. (August 24, 1998)
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