Nigeria is establishing a maternal and perinatal health database
The Federal Government of Nigeria in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) has inaugurated a Maternal and Perinatal Health...
Harnessing digital technologies is essential for universal health coverage – WHO DG
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released new recommendations on 10 ways that countries can use digital health technology, accessible...
Reported cases of measles have tripled in 2019 – WHO
Measles cases have continued to climb into 2019. Preliminary global data shows that reported cases rose by 300 percent in...
New push for collaboration on global health launched
To meet the world’s most pressing health challenges, WHO, governments and global health leaders today called for improved partnerships and...
One in four health care facilities around the world lacks basic water services
One in four health care facilities around the world lacks basic water services, impacting over 2 billion people, according to...
Why women outlive men in Nigeria and elsewhere
In 2019, more than 141 million children will be born: 73 million boys and 68 million girls. Based on recent...
Every year, Africa loses $2.4 trillion to diseases
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that nearly 630 million years of healthy life were lost in 2015 due to...
Ebola vaccination coverage in DR Congo exceeds 90%
Health worker in DR Congo receiving the experimental Ebola vaccine More than 90% of people eligible for vaccination against the...
WHO advocates fully oral regimens to treat people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it is recommending shifting to a new treatment course in which drugs...
WHO to establish central registry on human genome editing research
The World Health Organization’s new advisory committee on developing global standards for governance and oversight of human genome editing...
