Members of the WHO Emergency Committee deliberated until late on Wednesday evening as they continue to study an outbreak of the new respiratory virus first identified in China, as cases continue to rise.
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WHO, in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos, said failure of world leaders to invest adequately in health priorities puts lives, livelihoods and economies in jeopardy.
“The DRC authorities … have once again shown leadership and their determination to end this outbreak as soon as possible,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.
Botswana’s health ministry on Friday said the country was on high alert for the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The World Health Organisation on Tuesday urged the Lagos State Government to issue an executive order mandating Polio and Routine Immunisation in schools and gated estates in the state.
Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo has called for an effective policy framework to check tobacco consumption and reduce the risks of cardiovascular diseases in the country.
The World Health Organisation has declared Algeria and Argentina malaria-free.
New guidelines released by the World Health Organisation states that people who exercise regularly, avoid alcohol, smoking and eat a healthy diet can reduce the risk of developing dementia at an old age.
The World Health Organisation advises that children under five get better quality sleep and have more time for active play if they are to grow up healthy.
The health statistics which according to the report was disaggregated by sex for the first time, stated that women outlived men everywhere in the world, particularly in wealthy countries
The World Health Organisation announced on Monday that 41,000 people lost their lives to cancer out of 166, 000 cases recorded in Nigeria last year.
In 2017, around 67,000 children (aged 0–9 years) and 69,000 adolescents (aged 10–19 years) became newly infected with HIV.
Dr. Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, disclosed this to newsmen on Monday in Abuja.
The Minister of State for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made this known at an event to commemorate the 2018 National Noma Day.
Dr Kofi Ikpeme, a Fellow of Royal College of Surgeon and past Chairman of NMA in Cross River, made the call on Saturday during the NMA South South Zonal Meeting in Calabar.
The Director General of WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus, and UN Peacekeeping chief, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, sated this after a joint mission to the epicentre of the epidemic, around the city of Beni close to the Ugandan border.
The Federal Government in collaboration with the World Health Organisation on Thursday restated commitments to end Noma disease in the country by 2023.
He described health insurance scheme as a necessity for quality life and should be embraced by individuals, governments, and corporate organisations.
According to them, health is a right and should not be a privilege.
Sanusi Yahaya, the state Coordinator of Emergency Operation Centre, told newsmen at the distribution centre in Bassa, that the items were provided by Kogi government and donor agencies such as WHO and Unilever.