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Global health threats: WHO to implement new strategic plan

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it will in 2019 commence the implementation of the organisation’s new five-year strategic plan to address some of the major...

admin - January 17, 2019

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Utilising cowpea for national nutritional enhancement

A recent review of the National Nutritional Report from 2003 to 2016 has shown that about 70 percent of children ages six to 23 months...

admin - January 14, 2019

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Uganda intensifies Ebola screening at international airport

Uganda has intensified Ebola screening at Entebbe International Airport to prevent the disease from spreading from the neighbouring eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Emmanuel Ainebyoona, ministry...

admin - January 14, 2019

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Govts urged to sensitise Nigerians to effects of packaging food with plastics

An ecologist, Mr Richard Inyamkume, has urged government at all levels to sensitise Nigerians, particularly food handlers, to the negative effects of wrapping hot foods in...

admin - January 13, 2019

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Restaurateurs told to desist from packaging hot foods with plastics

An ecologist, Mr David Michael, has urged restaurateurs not to package hot foods with plastics to prevent chemicals from getting into the foods. Michael, the Executive Director,...

admin - January 11, 2019

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$14bn needed to fight AIDS, TB, malaria globally

At least $14 billion is needed to accelerate the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and quell stubborn epidemics that still kill millions, the head of a...

admin - January 11, 2019

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Polio likely to be eradicated in Pakistan by 2019 – WHO

Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus, says that polio is likely to be eliminated from Pakistan by the end of 2019, a statement...

admin - January 8, 2019

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Eight hospitalised as cholera hits Uganda’s capital

Uganda’s capital Kampala is experiencing a cholera outbreak which has left eight people admitted to an isolation centre, a ministry of health official said on Tuesday,...

admin - January 8, 2019

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