Tag:World Health Organisation (WHO)

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DRC declares new Ebola outbreak in Mbandaka – WHO

World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported that health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Saturday, April 23, 2022, declared an...

admin - April 24, 2022

Health

Over 1m African children protected by first malaria vaccine

More than 1 million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have now received one or more doses of the world’s first malaria vaccine, thanks...

admin - April 22, 2022

Health

Africa records longest-running decline in COVID-19 infections – WHO

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday, April 14, 2022, said COVID-19 cases in Africa have fallen for the past 16 weeks and deaths...

admin - April 14, 2022

Health

World Health Day: WHO calls on govts to mitigate climate crisis

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on governments to take urgent actions to protect health and mitigate climate crisis. The UN health agency also...

admin - April 7, 2022

Health

Unreported COVID cases in Africa higher than expected – WHO

The number of unreported cases of COVID-19 infections among the 1.3 billion residents in Africa is far higher than previously reported, according to the...

admin - April 7, 2022

Pollution

World Health Day: Billions of people still breathe unhealthy air – WHO

Almost the entire global population (99%) breathes air that exceeds World Health Organisation (WHO) air quality limits and threatens their health. A record number of...

admin - April 4, 2022

Health

WHO launches bid to stop a new global pandemic ‘Arboviruses’

World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday, March 31, 2022, launched a plan to prevent “Arboviruses’’ from causing a global pandemic, noting that they are...

admin - April 1, 2022

Pollution