A new species of mosquito, commonly known as “steve” or scientifically referred to as Anopheles stephensi, is causing a surge in malaria infections in Nigeria and...
The World Health Organization has granted prequalification to the new oral poliovirus vaccine type 2, marking the first instance of such recognition for a vaccine under...
A recent study has revealed alarming findings about the quality of paracetamol tablets available for sale in Nigeria, indicating that nearly all of them are potentially...
The World Health Organization has issued a warning about the significant increase in dengue infections globally in 2023, posing a potential high public health threat. The...
The World Health Organization has delivered a sobering message: despite progress in expanding access to malaria prevention tools, the number of people falling sick with the...
Fighters have occupied a national public laboratory in Sudan holding samples of diseases including polio and measles, creating an “extremely, extremely dangerous” situation, the World Health...
The World Health Organisation Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, has said that the Ministry of Health of Cote d’Ivoire on Sunday confirmed the country’s...
The World Health Organisation on Wednesday says three new candidate drugs are being tested in the latest phase of global Solidarity clinical trials to find effective...
Agency Report The World Health Organisation on Thursday said that weekly deaths from COVID-19 in Africa had reached a record peak in the week that ended...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says COVID-19 deaths have increased by 80 per cent in the past one month in Africa, mostly driven by the highly...
The World Health Organisation says a shipment of about four million doses of coronavirus vaccines from the UN-partnered COVAX initiative arrived in Africa last week. While...
Agency Report After a near-halt of COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Africa, delivers have ramped up in recent months, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday....
A World Health Organisation (WHO) study has highlighted an unacceptably high global prevalence of syphilis among men who have sex with men. The world body, in...
The United Nations Children’s Fund has signed an agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to supply up to 220 million doses of the J&J single-dose vaccine to all 55 member-states of...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it has delivered nearly 96 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to 135 countries and other essential health products through COVAX. WHO’s...