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 of allocating at least 15 per cent of their annual ...
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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 health agency also said the study revealed that 83,000 to ...
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 from smallpox.’ The declaration marked the end of a disease ...
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 190,000 could die and 29 to 44 million be infected ...
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 Mitoha Ondo made this known by posting the information on ...
“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 and media outlets that COVID-19 could be human-made and have ...
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 girls are cut before they turn 15 years old (see ...
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 Friday evening. Mustapha, who is also the Secretary to the ...
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 in Africa has risen to over 36,000 in the past ...
COVID-19: vaccine trials are at risk after Africa racism backlash
High-profile African figures, including footballers Samuel Eto'o and Didier Drogba, have voiced their opposition to medical trials, which many perceive are using Africans as 'guinea pigs'. Comments from French researchers ...
