Nigeria: COVID-19 Home treatment will increase infections, NMA, nurses warn
The NMA and the NANNM, in separate interviews, said the implementation of home treatment in Nigeria, where the majority of ...
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Nigeria: COVID-19 nightmare exposes wobbling healthcare system
The heads of state of African Union countries on April 2001 met in Nigeria and pledged to set a target ...
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Africa COVID-19: Coronavirus may infect 44 million Africans in the first year–WHO
The WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, disclosed this in a statement posted on its website. The UN ...
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WHO: Commemorating Smallpox Eradication – a legacy of hope, for COVID-19 and other diseases
On 8 May 1980, the 33rd World Health Assembly officially declared: ‘The world and all its peoples have won freedom ...
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WHO warns 190,000 Africans may die in 2020 over coronavirus
The UN health agency cited a new study by its regional office in Brazzaville which found that between 83,000 and ...
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Equatorial Guinea coronavirus: 315 cases, 2 deaths — WHO
Country as of Sunday, May 3, has 315 confirmed virus cases and 2 deaths -- WHO Report Health vice minister ...
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“No scientific backing” for claims COVID-19 could have escaped from Wuhan lab: scientists
WASHINGTON, May 2 (Xinhua) -- There is "no scientific backing" for the two claims floated recently by some U.S. politicians ...
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FGM: Female genital mutilation has been documented in 30 countries, mainly in Africa, as well as in the Middle East and Asia.
Furthermore, there are an estimated 3 million girls at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation every year. The majority of ...
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Nigeria: UN, WHO deploy 3,000 personnel in Kano
The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, made this known during a briefing in Abuja on ...
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COVID-19: Africa’s coronavirus toll hits 36,000 in 24hrs
The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, has said the number of Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases ...
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