Menabde said under the strategy, $25 million would fund the joint response of WHO, the Regional Office for the Americas and the Pan American Health Organisation and $31 million would fund the work of key partners
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Independent expert to the World Health Organization on Monday Began deliberating whether to declare a global emergency over-the Zika virus,…
He said research and trials are ongoing around the world to cut down the treatment period of Drug Resistant TB from 20 months to nine months
Chan said: “More than 11,300 people have died since the outbreak in December 2013 in West Africa, while 28,500 have been infected.
“Detecting and breaking every chain of transmission has been a monumental achievement
The programme ensured that drugs and vaccines bought by countries and international procurement agencies such as UNICEF met acceptable standards of quality, safety and efficacy
Rene Migliani, WHO Official at the National Coordination Centre for the Fight Against Ebola, said Ebola had made more than 6,200 children orphans in Guinea
Yonas Tegegn, an Ethiopian WHO official based in Thailand, was accused of not paying his maid, whom he had brought from Ethiopia, and confiscating her passport
The survey also showed that antibiotic resistance happened when bacteria changes and become resistant to the antibiotics used to treat the infections they cause
She said: “Women are at higher lifetime risk of stroke and one in five women globally will experience a stroke in their lifetime compared to one in six men
He said: “I want to assure you that there will be no complacency, as we will maintain and improve on our surveillance system as well as raise the childhood population immunity against the polio virus to avoid any spread of the disease
The statement said the theme of this year’s commemoration: “Dignity in mental health,” was aimed at drawing attention to the crucial need of mental health patients, adding that they required to be treated with dignity
“Sierra Leone has seen no new cases in three weeks. The government would declare the end of the epidemic on November 8 if the situation continued,” WHO Press Officer, Margaret Harris, told newsmen
The World Health Organisation on Monday announced that the world was getting closer to finding an effective vaccine for Ebola.…
The World Health Organisation has warned that smoking-related deaths would increase to eight million a year by 2030 unless further…
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Ebola was first reported in Nigeria in July 2014 when a Liberia-American man, Patrick Sawyer, tested positive to the virus after arriving in the country through the MMIA, Lagos
Famiyesin said WHO was committed to ensuring that communicable and preventable diseases were eradicated or reduced to the barest minimum in Nigeria and across the world
“The research conducted by the World Health Organisation and other technical research institutes have not shown any risk to human life as a result of radiation emanating from telecom equipment
A major expansion of the WHO-recommended core package of measures, vector control, chemoprevention, diagnostic testing and treatment has proved both cost effective and efficient
“The sexual transmission of the Ebola Virus from males to females is a strong possibility, but has not yet been proven; less probable, but theoretically possible
He said: The experts, who form WHO’s Emergency Committee on Ebola, also made a strong recommendation that all countries must avoid any unnecessary interference with international trade and transport beyond temporary restrictions already in placese