No public funds should be spent on food contributing to unhealthy diets – WHO DG
The Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised governments to refrain from spending public funds on food...
A crazy year with unforgettable lessons in global health
As 2020 draws to an end and 2021 beckons, it became much clearer that things may never be the same...
Health is the essential underpinning of productive, resilient and stable economies – WHO DG
The DG of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has described health as the essential underpinning of...
Protocol approved for COVID-19 herbal medicine clinical trials in Africa
The Regional Expert Committee on Traditional Medicine for COVID-19 formed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Africa Centre for...
Togo eliminates sleeping sickness
Togo has received validation from the World Health Organization (WHO) for having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis or “sleeping sickness” as...
Africa closes in on one million COVID-19 cases
COVID-19 infections in Africa will exceed one million cases in the coming days as the pandemic surges in several hotspot...
The vaccines success story gives us hope for the future
The World Health Organization (WHO), working in partnership with both public and private sectors, has a proud history of vaccinology....
COVID-19: Over 160,000 cases now confirmed daily
More than 10.3 million cases of COVID-19 have now been reported to WHO, and more than 506,000 deaths. For the...
WHO officially ends hydroxychloroquine clinical trial
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that it has decided to stop the hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) arm of the Solidarity...
