Since President Donald Trump ordered the US to exit the WHO on his first day back in office, there has been an atmosphere of alarm at the UN agency’s headquarters in Geneva.
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This recognition highlights Gender Mobile Initiative’s innovative approach to mental health care.
It said at least one person every second, or 42 million people annually, is estimated to acquire a new genital herpes infection
The health organisation, however, said that significant gaps remained, threatening the country’s ability to meet global health targets.
The NCDC, which revealed this on its official website, said that the figure was according to the latest epidemiological report available to it.
Prof. Abayomi, during a recent update on the cholera outbreak in Lagos State, highlighted the successful implementation of urgent medical and environmental intervention measures.
WHO, in a statement on Tuesday, said alcohol consumption also accounted for 0.6 million deaths from psychoactive drug use.
The agency’s Eastern Mediterranean Region reported the highest number of cases, followed by the African Region.
According to WHO, this is especially important for countries like Nigeria where multiple serogroups are prevalent.
They made the call at a press conference held on Tuesday in Abuja.
In the same year, India accounted for 17 percent of global maternal, and neonatal deaths and stillbirths, while Nigeria accounted for 12 percent.
This followed more than 306,000 cases reported worldwide last year, constituting a 79 percent increase from 2022.
Musa Mahdi, WHO’s Coordinator in Plateau presented the kits on Tuesday in Jos.
The UN agency, in a statement on Wednesday, said the teams that undertook the high-risk missions witnessed intense hostilities in their vicinity
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The organisation in a report, said its assertion followed the falling figure of road accident deaths.
The State’s NMA Chairman, Dr Aminu Abdullahi, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday.
According to the World Health Organisation, insufficient physical activity has become the fourth biggest risk factor for mortality in the world, with approximately 3.2 million deaths a year attributable to insufficient physical activity.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced an expanded partnership to improve access to COVID-19 technology, knowledge and clinical data, stressing on why the fight against the virus must continue.
At the last count, 512 people have been martyred to please the god of ego in Sudan. Apart from that number that has been dispossessed of their lives, about 4,200 more have either been maimed, injured, or totally immobilised, with claims that these figures may be a far cry from the actual reality on ground. The World Health Organization (WHO) has also painted an apocryphal picture of the bloody uprising. It said the figure may be far more and that “many more” deaths are on the offing as a result of outbreaks of diseases and total breakdown of essential services.