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After one hundred days of war, Ukraine’s health system is under severe pressure and the World Health Organization (WHO) has increased its presence, both in Ukraine and in those countries ...

Africa is experiencing a surge in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles, polio and yellow fever due to disruption of routine immunization caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the ...

By Metohuey Michael Adoglo   The World Health Organization says it will conduct hybrid training in Abuja from April 25 to 29 for health professionals emphasizing the importance of integrating ...

The international body said cancer, cardiovascular diseases and diabetes were responsible for 37 percent of deaths in 2019, rising from 24 percent in 2000, largely due to weaknesses in the ...

South Africa's efforts to produce vaccines are key to helping the African continent become more self-sufficient in inoculations to combat COVID-19 and many other diseases, the visiting chief of the ...

The center is part of a $4.2 million African Development Bank grant-financed Covid-19 response project that included procuring an oxygen plant, vehicles, a wide range of essential medicines, lifesaving biomedical ...

The President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach and World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus met during the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 to discuss ways ...

“In many countries and communities, we are concerned about the false sense of security that vaccines have ended the pandemic and that people who are vaccinated do not need to ...

2.6. billion people lack clean cooking access One third of the global population or 2.6 billion people worldwide still remain without access to clean cooking. The use of inefficient, polluting ...

Covid-19 pandemic declared ‘nowhere near over’ It is likely that high levels of infection around the globe will lead to new Covid-19 variants due to virus mutations, according to the ...