Tag: WHO
Flood disaster: WHO steps up disease prevention efforts
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is stepping up efforts to provide life-saving assistance, especially basic medical care to…
Cholera outbreak: WHO supports Zimbabwe with 1.4m vaccinations
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is supporting Zimbabwe’s efforts to begin vaccinating 1.4 million people against a new deadly outbreak…
World Bank supports Philippines typhoon victims with $496m
The World Bank has released 496.25 million dollars to support the Philippine government’s efforts to hasten recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction…
Harmful use of Alcohol kills 3 million people worldwide annually – WHO
The World Health Organisation, WHO, has revealed that harmful use of alcohol kills three million people worldwide every year, which…
Chronic illnesses kill 41 million people annually – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, chronic lyme disease, and depression, among others, kill no…
Militant attacks: WHO suspends work on Ebola in Congo
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is suspending parts of its effort to fight Ebola in Congo after a string of…
1.3 billion people at risk of tuberculosis – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that a quarter of the world’s population has TB infection or some 1.3 billion…
10 million cases of TB recorded in 2017 – WHO
An estimated 10 million people worldwide developed Tuberculosis (TB) in 2017, and the world is far from ending the epidemic,…
800,000 people commit suicide annually – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says no fewer than 800,000 people commit suicide annually, the second leading cause of death…
WHO expects more Ebola cases in Congo
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday that it could not be certain that it had identified all people…
WHO to donate Yellow fever vaccines to Nigeria
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has pledged to donate 12 million doses of Yellow fever vaccines in 2018 and 19…
DR Congo: WHO calls for access to tackle Ebola
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for “free and secure” access to the Ebola-affected people in the conflict-affected region…
Ebola cases in DR Congo ‘will rise in coming days’ – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised the alarm that cases from the resurgent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic…
Congo Ebola outbreak poses high regional risk – WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that an Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is likely…
Millions of people unknowingly infected with hepatitis – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised an alarm over millions of people who have viral hepatitis but are unaware…
WHO declares DRC Ebola-free
The Ebola virus outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been declared over by the World Health Organisation…
Snail fever: WHO pledges to assist Myanmar
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has pledged to provide medical supplies and technical aid to Myanmar in prevention of the…
Plateau IDP camps: WHO to create makeshift clinics
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has promised to create makeshift clinics in the various IDPs camps in Plateau to address…
Nigeria to be 2 years polio free in August – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Coordinator in Cross River, Dr Thompson Igbu, says Nigeria would be polio free by August…
WHO finally ratify tobacco control framework
The 194 Member States of the World Health Organisation (WHO) have finally ratified the framework on tobacco control.
Congo: Ebola outbreak under control – WHO
The spread of Ebola seems to have been stopped in Congo, less than three months after the outbreak of the…
Search for Hepatitis B cure still on track – WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the collaboration between global health partners to discover a cure for Hepatitis B Virus…
WHO tags video game ‘mental disorder’
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has, for the first time, tagged compulsive video gaming as a mental health condition in…
Congo: Ebola outbreak is not over – WHO
The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has cautioned against declaring victory too early in Congo’s Ebola epidemic, in…
Ebola: WHO reports great feat in Congo
Congo has made great strides in fighting Ebola, but the virus is not yet under control, a senior World Health…
DRC approves 5 new Ebola drugs – WHO
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has approved the use of five investigational therapeutics to treat Ebola Virus Disease…
Cholera: WHO intensifies house to house search
World Health Organisation (WHO) says it is coordinating the control of Cholera outbreak in Adamawa and has embarked on intensive…
Borno: WHO begins campaign to eliminate yellow fever
World Health Organisation (WHO) says it commenced campaign to eliminate Yellow fever in the country in February and has vaccinated…
China exceeds U.S. in healthy life span – WHO
China exceeds U.S. in healthy life span for the first time since records began, , according to WHO data.
1.1billion people are smokers globally – WHO
There are around 1.1 billion smokers in the world today, the same number as at the turn of the century,…