The World Health Organisation and the UN Children’s Fund confirmed on Friday, saying they have stepped up community-based efforts to tackle the Ebola disease in the eastern DRC
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Some 9.6 million people will die of cancer in 2018, according to a report of the Global Cancer Statistics 2018 released on Wednesday by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
According to a report“ The State of Food Insecurity and Nutrition in the World, put together by UNICEF, the World Health Organisation, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Programme, the number of people suffering from hunger has increased during the past three years.
The World Health Organisation says no fewer than 800,000 people commit suicide annually, the second leading cause of death among people between the ages of 15 and 29, in 2016.
The World Health Organisation says insufficient physical activity is a leading risk factor for non-communicable disease, negatively impacting mental health and overall quality of life.
The office of the UN High Commission for Refugees warned that rebel violence in eastern DRC was escalating inside the vast country’s Ebola-hit North Kivu province, putting millions at risk
The World Health Organisation has reaffirmed its commitment to combat Yellow fever in Nigeria with the support of GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance.
Chairmen of the 25 local government areas in Niger State have reneged on the World Health Organisation, WHO, agreement reached on the remittance of 15 per cent of their allocation to improve health services across the state.
According to him, by so doing, Nigeria will include natural medicine as a major foreign exchange earner for the country instead of the current trend.
Dr Igbu made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria on the sidelines of a workshop on integrated disease surveillance and response on Wednesday in Calabar.
Researchers at the university, in collaboration with scientists at the Veterans Affairs’ Clinical Epidemiology Centre, examined the relationship between particulate matter and the risk of diabetes.
Giwa-Tubosun said at an exhibition of “Innovations on Health Care” on Thursday in Lagos that research showed that HIV infection through poor blood management was that much.
The organisation on its Twitter Handle: @WHONigeria, on Saturday said a month into the outbreak, it has recorded 1,168 cases and 20 deaths in Mubi North and Mubi South Local Government Areas of the state.
Thomas, who works at the Synapse Services Centre for Psychological Medicine, Lagos, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Lagos.
The strengthened realignment to health priorities and effective responses to over 100 disease outbreaks and humanitarian disasters each year are some of the more important results of the ambitious reform programme, which began in 2015.
Charity Warigon, the WHO Communications Officer, said in a statement in Abuja on Monday that as of May 26, about 434 cases of cholera had been reported in the area, leading to 13 deaths.
Speaking in Geneva at the World Health Assembly, Dr. Peter Salama, WHO Deputy Director-General, who heads Emergency Preparedness and Response, said there were several reasons why the current outbreak – which has claimed 27 lives since it was declared on May 8 – had yet to be contained.
The World Health Organisation in a press statement on Monday said that April 4 through May 13, a total of 39 Ebola virus disease cases had been reported in DRC, including 19 deaths.
According to a statement issued by WHO’s Communication Officer, Charity Warigon, in Abuja on Friday, continued vigilance is, however, needed as the country is still Lassa fever endemic.
Awolola, who is also an entomologist, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos, on Wednesday.