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Gender matters in responding to major disease outbreaks like Ebola
Written by Julia Smith, Simon Fraser University Despite over a year of containment efforts, the World Health Organisation recently declared...
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There is a new WHO-preferred treatment option for HIV
Based on new evidence assessing benefits and risks, the World Health Organization today officially recommended the use of the HIV...
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What is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern?
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on 17 July 2019 officially declared the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo a Public Health...
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How DR Congo’s Ebola outbreak became a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
On 17 July 2019, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the...
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Website of Nigeria’s health insurance scheme has been down for weeks
For at least five weeks, the website of Nigeria's National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has been down, healthnews.ng can exclusively...
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Two Nigerian states move to end open defecation
The governments of Ondo and Ekiti states have taken steps aimed at ending open defecation in their respective states. In...
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Gene editing used to eliminate HIV
In a study published July 2 in Nature Communications researchers report a possible new way to eliminate HIV from an infected animal’s genome....
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New head appointed for Nigeria’s insurance scheme, NCDC boss appointed
Prof. Mohammed Sambo is the new head of Nigeria's National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). "Following the recommendations of report by an...
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Nigerian health genomics and AI start-up raises nearly $5m funding
54gene (the D.B.A. of Stack Diagnostics), the African-focused healthtech genomics and AI start-up that is leading in the diagnosis and...
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