Tag: WHO
Polio vaccination: UN agencies take campaign to Somalia
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have called on Somalian citizens to vaccinate their…
Ebola: WHO to declare international emergency
The World Health Organization (WHO) should and is likely to declare an international emergency over the Ebola epidemic in the…
WHO lists countries with emergencies mental disorders
The World Health Organisation (WHO), in a report published on Wednesday, listed Nigeria, Bangladesh, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, South Sudan, Syria,…
Over 1m sexually transmitted infections recorded daily – WHO
Everyday, over one million new cases of curable Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) are recorded among people aged 15 to 49…
WHO issues guidelines to prevent dementia
The number of people with dementia worldwide is expected to triple in the next 30 years, according to the World…
WHO’s slain doctor buried in Cameroon
With overwhelming grief and respect, Dr Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung, a devoted doctor, epidemiologist, husband and father who had worked…
Congo Ebola death toll nears 1,000 – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday said it feared continued “intense transmission’’ of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic…
Libya: WHO expresses fear on disease outbreak
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday that it feared outbreaks of infectious diseases due to dirty water and…
Ebola: 993 cases confirmed, 621 dead in DRC – WHO
As the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) approaches 1 000 cases amid increased violence, WHO…
Cyclone Idai: WHO sending urgent health assistance to displaced thousands in Mozambique, others
The World Health Organization (WHO) is providing urgent assistance to meet the health needs of thousands of people impacted by…
Lassa fever: WHO scales up support in West Africa
The World Health Organisation, (WHO), on Sunday, said it has scaled up its efforts to support West African countries, in…
Lassa fever: WHO scales up response in West Africa
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it has scaled up efforts to support the response rate of five countries in…
Cancer claims 41,000 lives in Nigeria in 2018 – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Monday that 41,000 people lost their lives to cancer out of 166, 000…
Pakistan may be polio free by end of 2019 -WHO
Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus says that polio is likely to be eliminated from Pakistan by…
FG, WHO partners to avert non-communicable diseases
The Federal Government says it is working in partnership with World Health Organisation (WHO) to reduce the prevalence of Non-Communicable…
30 milliom babies are born premature yearly -UNICEF, WHO
Nearly 30 million babies are born too soon, too small or become sick, requiring specialised care to survive beyond the…
Exposure to air pollution causes 7m deaths worldwide annually – WHO
Exposure to air pollution causes seven million deaths worldwide every year and costs an estimated US$ 5.11 trillion in welfare…
Polio: WHO immunises 79,000 children in FCT
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it immunised about 79, 000 children of below five years against polio during the…
Nigeria, WHO to eradicate Noma disease by 2023
The Federal Government in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday restated commitments to end Noma disease in…
WHO counters Zimbabwean preacher’s HIV cure claim
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reaffirmed that there is “no cure” for HIV, insisting that people living with HIV…
PHC, panacea to health for all – WHO
The Director-General, World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, has declared that Primary Health Care (PHC) was the most important…
How Africa can earn polio-free certification – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said Africa stood the chance of being certified polio-free by the end of 2019 or…
Congo: Ebola death rate has risen to 135 – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says no fewer than 135 people have been killed by the Ebola virus outbreak in…
WHO to hold emergency meeting on Congo’s Ebola outbreak
The World Health Organisation (WHO) will hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday to decide whether Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola…
Cholera outbreak kills 42 in Somalia
An outbreak of cholera acute watery diarrhea (AWD) in Somalia has killed 42 people since December, a UN health agency…
WHO expects Congo’s Ebola outbreak to last 3, 4 months
Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak is expected to last another three to four months and could spread at any…
Adamawa: WHO vaccinates 377,000 people against cholera
No fewer than 377,000 people have been vaccinated against cholera in Adamawa, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
WHO tasks African leaders on mental health care
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged African leaders not to relent in the training of Primary Health Care workers…
Half of mental health disorders start at adolescence – WHO
Half of all mental illnesses begin at the adolescent age – before the age of 14 – but most cases…
Malaysia eliminates mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis
Malaysia has successfully eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday in Manila.