Data from Mali by the Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend (SWEDD) tend to show only 1.4 midwives for every 10,000 inhabitants. According…
Browsing: WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday evacuated dozens of their staff working on…
As of November 9, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has carried out 1,095,072 health consultations for displaced and conflict affected Yemenis…
On 14 November each year, WHO joins the international community in observing World Diabetes Day. This year’s theme is “the…
A seeming landmark resolution calling for parliaments to take all legal and policy measures to achieve universal health coverage (UHC)…
Health authorities in Malawi have dismissed as false reports that first Ebola case has been recorded in the country’s border…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is gravely concerned about the humanitarian health situation in northeast Syria, where up to 200,000…
World Mental Health Day, on 10 October, is an opportunity to unite across the African Region and globally, for better…
Tanzania on Tuesday summoned the World Health Organization’s local representative, who over the weekend asserted that the government refused to…
The World Health Organization has accused Tanzania of failing to provide information on suspected cases of Ebola in this East…
Tanzania has refuted allegations of harbouring an Ebola case in the country, formally telling the World Health Organisation (WHO), it…
Malaria can be eradicated within a generation, global health experts have said. In a major report on Sunday, 41 specialists…
Every region in the world, except the Americas, is experiencing an increase in the number of cases of measles, a…
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday new methods will be needed to possibly wipe out malaria. The WHO’s Global…
Nigeria on Wednesday marked three years free of endemic wild polio with health officials saying the nation’s progress in fighting…
Burundi authorities have stepped up health controls along the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo increasing surveillance and safety…
The first confirmed cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province was announced on Friday (August…
Burundi has started vaccinating its health workers against Ebola, beginning with those near the border with the Democratic Republic of…
The World Health Organisation has vaccinated over 1,300 people who potentially came into contact with the Ebola virus in the…
Malaria has killed more than 1,800 people in Burundi this year, the UN’s humanitarian agency says, a death toll rivalling…
There is a high risk of Ebola outbreak in Uganda as hundreds of citizens crossed the Congolese-Ugandan border last July…
Congolese soldiers and police will enforce hand-washing and fever checks now that the deadly Ebola outbreak has been declared an…
The second-deadliest outbreak of Ebola virus in history has become an international public health emergency, the World Health Organization said…
20 million children worldwide – more than 1 in 10 – missed out on lifesaving vaccines such as measles, diphtheria…
The Nigerian Senate on Thursday adopted a motion seeking additional funding for Primary Health Care centres across the country. In…
The International Food and Beverage Alliance (IFBA) has committed to the WHO initiative to target and eliminate industrially produced trans…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a statement that Children under five must spend less time sitting watching screens,…
