More than 6,000 people a day are infected with viral hepatitis — and progress fighting the disease has stalled, a recently released World Health Organization report suggests. The analysis, released at the World Hepatitis Summit in Lisbon this month, looks at…
WHO: 4.5bn people globally not covered by essential health services
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 4.5 billion people globally are not covered by essential health services. Tedros Ghebreyesus, the WHO director-general, said this on Wednesday during an online media conference on global health issues. Speaking on the upcoming World…
Cholera cases, deaths surge amid nationwide flooding
• NCDC confirms 10,745 cases, 256 deaths in 31 states • Reports a 42% increase in September cases compared with August • UNICEF: More than 1.5 million children at risk • ‘Nigeria at extremely high risk of climate change impacts,…
Disease outbreak news: Lassa Fever – Nigeria (14 February 2022)
In Nigeria, from 3 to 30 January 2022, 211 laboratory confirmed Lassa fever cases including 40 deaths (case fatality ratio: 19%) have been cumulatively reported in 14 of the 36 Nigerian states and the Federal Capital Territory across the country…
Secret Side Effects of Exercising Just 2 Hours Per Week, Says Science
Both the World Health Organization and American Heart Association recommend that adults perform at least 150 minutes per week (two and half hours) of moderate aerobic exercise, such as a brisk walk or light bike ride, or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic exercise such…
Africa: How Chats On Private Parts and Cervical Cancer Are Helping to Defeat the Disease in Africa
Playing on radios across Zambia this month is an upbeat piano snippet with a female radio personality speaking words of warning for women that have always been considered taboo. Words like pelvic area, periods and even cervical. “We are a…
No possibility to going back to ‘old normal’: WHO chief
Warning that there will be no return to “the old normal”, the World Health Organization (WHO) urged people everywhere to play a part in preventing further spread of Covid-19 as global cases have surpassed 15 million and nearly 620,000 deaths.…
World Health Organization drops hydroxychloroquine from COVID-19 study
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday said it had halted a clinical trial testing hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment, citing clinical evidence so far from its studies as well as studies conducted by other organizations. The WHO has been…
Another black eye for the WHO
What a fiasco One of the reasons the bulls got so excited yesterday about the reopening trade was a comment from Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, head of WHO’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit. She said “it’s very rare” to get…
COVID-19: WHO suspends trial of hydroxychloroquine over safety concerns
A clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for COVID-19 has been ’temporarily’ suspended by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The Director-General of the UN health agency, Tedros Ghebreyesus, in a virtual press conference on Monday said the decision follows a…