The World Health Organization estimates that the number of COVID-19 infections in Africa could be seven times higher than official data suggests, while deaths from the…
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The World Health Organisation has appointed a Nigerian, Ayoade Alakija, as the global health agency’s Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator. WHO Director-General,…
The World Health Organization says only five African countries, less than 10 percent of the continent’s nations are on track to meet the goal of vaccinating…
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended widespread use of the world’s first malaria vaccine for children on Wednesday, hailing it as a breakthrough in “science, child…
World Health organisation has endorsed a malaria vaccine produced by African scientists in Africa, with Sub-Saharan Africa expected to benefit the most from it. After a…
The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners have launched the first ever global strategy to defeat meningitis, a debilitating disease that kills hundreds of thousands of…
Africa recorded a 43 per cent week-on-week rise in COVID-19 mortality, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday. The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr…
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…
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…