This is according to a statement by Charity Warigon, Media and Communication Expert for WHO Nigeria, in Abuja on Tuesday.
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WHO chief, Tedros Ghebreyesus, who announced the declaration in Geneva, called on countries to “take notice and redouble our efforts”
In an update on Friday, the world health body said 2,284 people had been infected since the outbreak in the country’s Ituri and North Kivu provinces nearly 11 months ago
In a report published on Wednesday, WHO listed other countries affected to include Bangladesh, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, South Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, the West Bank and Gaza Strip
The world has failed to combat sexually transmitted bacterial infections in the past few years, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday in a study that estimates one million new cases every day.
The World Health Organisation says “Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission” initiative has helped to protect 94.9 per cent infants exposed to HIV by their mothers in Nigeria.
The film tells the story of a young boy growing up with autism and the impact of the condition on his family as they raise him
As Nigeria eagerly awaits her certification as polio free by the World Health Organisation, the Aliko Dangote Foundation has boosted the nation’s efforts to finally end a scourge, which had affected thousands of children across the country.
Adewole made the plan known in Abuja on Tuesday at the State Tuberculosis and HIV Programme Managers and stakeholders meeting
The DG spoke on Saturday at the opening of a Steering Committee Meeting of the West African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation Project at Swiss International D’Palms Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria
The World Health Organisation has said there were a total of 591 Ebola cases, 543 of which are confirmed, and 357 deaths, 309 of which are confirmed, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
No fewer than 1.35 million people die on the roads each year, while road traffic injuries are now the leading cause of death among young people, the latest statistics from the World Health Organisation revealed.
Nigeria has an estimate of 1.3 million children who are critically disabled out of estimated 25 million people with disability, the Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the UN, Prof. Tijjani Bande, has said.
The Federal Government in collaboration with the World Health Organisation on Thursday restated commitments to end Noma disease in the country by 2023.
The Nigerian Medical Association has commended the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control over move to reduce the risk associated with cardiovascular diseases.
The statement, issued during the World Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics in Rio de Janeiro, stressed that such tests were both unscientific and a violation of human rights.
The global health organisation said this in a report: ‘Coming of age: Adolescent health’ to mark the World Mental Health Day commemorated on Wednesday.
Over three million people are reported to have died as a result of harmful use of alcohol in 2016, a report released by the World Health Organisation on Friday said.
According to the report covering all 183 UN Member countries, including Nigeria, around 56 million children under-five would also die between 2018 and 2030, while newborn babies account for half of the deaths
As of Friday morning, there have been more than 4,000 suspected cases, including 58 confirmed cases and 25 cholera-related deaths, WHO said