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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has agreed that a woman’s risk of HIV should not restrict her contraceptive choice. This...

World leaders have adopted a high-level United Nations Political Declaration on universal health coverage (UHC), the most comprehensive set of...

The health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have announced plans to introduce a second experimental Ebola...

Kenya has officially launched the world’s first malaria vaccine today in Homa Bay County, western Kenya. The malaria vaccine pilot...

The number of countries with national suicide prevention strategies has increased in the five years since the publication of WHO’s...

The Federal Government, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and partners, is launching a...

A new report launched by The Lancet Commission on malaria eradication concludes that malaria, one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases, can...

Health services must integrate a stronger focus on ensuring optimum nutrition at each stage of a person’s life, according to...

A WHO expert advisory committee has approved the first phase of a new global registry to track research on human genome...

According to the 2018 WHO country profile, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) accounted for an estimated 29% of all deaths in Nigeria...