Tag: WHO
Polio: Nigeria Marks 3 Years Free Of Wild Polio
WHO’s Regional Director for Africa, Matshidiso
Moeti, has said that Nigeria on Wednesday marked three years free of endemic
wild polio.Moeti made this known on Wednesday...
WHO Urges Pharmaceutical Companies To Reduce Cost Of Drugs
The
World Health Organisation, WHO, Regional Director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti
has urged pharmaceutical companies and partners to reduce the cost of Hepatitis-B
and C diagnosis and...
Hepatitis: W.H.O Calls On Nations To Scale Up Investments In Elimination
The World
Health Organisation on Friday urged countries to take advantage of recent
reductions in the costs of diagnosing and treating viral hepatitis and scale up
investments...
Ebola Outbreak: WHO Declares Congo’s Public Health Emergency Of International Concern
The World Health Organisation, WHO officially declared the current Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC a Public Health Emergency of...
Global Hunger Continues To Rise – UN
More than 820 million people
worldwide were under nourished in 2018, the third consecutive year of slight
increase after decades of decline.This is said according to...
Healthcare Delivery: FG, W.H.O Partner To Enhance Value For Money
The Federal Ministry of Health says it will leverage on
the Value for Money initiative of the World Health Organisation, WHO to boost
health care delivery...
Ebola: W.H.O Says Africa Needs $98 Million To Contain Disease Next...
The World Health
Organisation, WHO has revealed that ninety eight million dollars, about
thirty five billion naira is needed to contain the ravaging Ebola Virus
Disease, EVD...
Polio: W.H.O Alerts About New Strains Of Vaccine-Derived In Southern Nigeria
The World Health Organisation, WHO has alerted about an
emergence and spread of new strains of vaccine-derived polio-virus type-2
(cVDPV2) in southern Nigeria.WHO announced that there...
Malaria: The World Health Organization Declares Algeria Free Of Deadly Disease
The World Health Organization,WHO,has declared the
nation where malaria was discovered as officially free of malaria, making it
the third African country to eliminate one of...
World Malaria Day: WHO Tasks Nigeria, Others To Scale Up Efforts...
The World Health Organisation, WHO has enjoined Nigeria and other countries to scale up efforts against malaria.
The organisation said the countries must accelerate the...
Measles: W.H.O Lists Nigeria Among African Countries With New Outbreaks
The World Health Organisation, WHO has listed Nigeria as one of the nine African countries where measles outbreaks have resurfaced.
WHO in a statement by...
Congo’s Mai Mai Militia Attacks Ebola Treatment Centre
Armed Mai Mai militiamen
attacked an Ebola treatment centre at the heart of an outbreak of the disease
in eastern Congo on Saturday, killing a policeman...
