Kenya’s acting Ministry of Health Director-General, Patrick Amoth, on Wednesday, was appointed Chairperson of the World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board for one year. Making the…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported a new case of Ebola Virus in Guinea after 27 days without a new confirmed case. The director of…
Côte d’Ivoire is now the second African country after Togo to have successfully eliminated human African trypanosomiasis, also known as “sleeping sickness” as a public health…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says Africa is getting ready to rollout COVID-19 vaccines, as the global body hosted African Health Ministers and deliberated on necessary…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the South African variant of the coronavirus (COVID-19) has been detected in four other African countries. WHO’s Regional Director for…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) through COVAX facility and Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) are expected to deliver close to 900 million…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) in partnership with other UN agencies and humanitarian organisations have announced the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile to help…
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a ban on the sale of alcohol and said face masks will be compulsory in public after the country became the first African nation to record one million cases.
Dr Akinwumi Adesina, the President of African Development Bank (AfDB), has been named winner of Academy of Public Health’s 2020 Distinguished Fellowship Award. The fellows are…
Non-communicable diseases account for seven of the world’s top 10 causes of death, a speedy increase from two decades ago, a new UN World Health Organization…