Most Recent News

Uganda: Health Devt Partners Move To End Ebola Virus

The leadership of the Ugandan Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO), and other health partners have visited the Ebola-affected areas of Mubende district to assess the health situation,.

  • 0

WHO Declares Malawi Trachoma-Free

World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Malawi as having eliminated trachoma—a bacterial eye infection that can cause irreversible blindness if untreated—as a public health problem. Malawi becomes the first country.

  • 0

Ghana Moves To End Marburg virus outbreak

Two months after recording three cases, Ghana has declared an end to the Marburg virus disease outbreak, a haemorrhagic fever almost as deadly as Ebola. It was the first time.

  • 0

Respite as WHO recommends new Ebola Treatments

The World Health Organization, WHO, said clinical evidence has proved that two monoclonal antibody treatments are effective for saving the lives of people infected with the deadly Ebola virus. It.

  • 0

Life Expectancy in Africa Increases Nearly 10 Years — WHO Report

Life expectancy in Africa rose by nearly 10 years between 2000 and 2019, from 46 to 56 years, according to the World Health Organization, WHO’s State of Health in Africa.

  • 0

Biontech To Soon Start Mrna Vaccine Factory Construction in Rwanda

COVID-19 vaccine maker, BioNTech said construction of an mRNA vaccine factory to enable African nations to jump-start their own manufacturing network would start on June 23 in Rwanda. The groundbreaking.

  • 0

WHO Chief Tedros Reappointed to Second Five-Year Term

Ethiopian Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was re-elected as head of the World Health Organization, WHO, for a second five-year on Tuesday. The director-general received more than two-thirds of the votes cast.

  • 0

Africa objects to U.S. push to reform health rules at WHO Assembly

African countries objected on Tuesday to a U.S.-led proposal to reform the International Health Regulations (IHR), a move delegates say might prevent passage at the World Health Organization’s, WHO, annual.

  • 0

WHO says no urgent need for mass monkeypox vaccinations

The World Health Organization, WHO,  does not believe the monkeypox outbreak outside of Africa requires mass vaccinations as measures like good hygiene and safe sexual behaviour will help control its.

  • 0

Nigeria and the battle against Malaria: the way Forward

Malaria is a life-threatening disease caused by parasites transmitted to people through the bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. It is, however, preventable and curable. In Nigeria, malaria has become.

  • 0